Review for The Times Higher – published 1 September 2006 Capitalism as if the World Matters By Jonathan Porritt, Earthscan Publications Ltd, 336pp, Hardcover £18.99 ISBN: 1844071928 Published 1 November 2005 Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble By Lester Brown, W W Norton & Co Ltd, 352pp, Paperback …
Monthly Archive: August 2006
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On becoming Vashti: reflections of a novice blogger
My nomination for the most prescient work of science fiction is The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. Writing in 1909, not only did he anticipate television, the Internet, video conferencing, email, Amazon, Google and Globalization but, more significantly, the impact that they would have on our lives. It is a short story about a world …
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Death on the roads – Article lacks logic
Letter to the editor of the British Medical Journal, 26 June, 2006, commenting on Unsafe driving behaviour and four wheel drive vehicles: observational study, by Lesley Walker, Jonathan Williams and Konrad Jamrozik. EDITOR — Walker et al show convincingly that drivers and other occupants of heavy four wheel drive vehicles are safer in crashes than …
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