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My Articles
I am the Editor of New Scientist, the world's leading science and technology weekly. Here is the latest issue:
- Emotional robots: Will we love them or hate them?
- Revealed: How pandemic swine flu kills
- GM rice makes allergies easy to stomach
- Meadows of the sea in 'shocking' decline
- This week's top stories [03 July 2009]
- Billabong fossils end Australia's dinosaur drought
- Metal comes to the rescue of revolutionary plane
- Police crackdowns may encourage drug use
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what makes my blood boil...
Intelligent Design
Imagine if every great thinker had invoked an intelligent designer when they hit a road block in their efforts to understand the world. Why did that apple fall from a tree? That pesky intelligent designer pushed it, of course. How are characteristics passed down generations? The intelligent designer made it so. Why does entropy increase? It was the ID guy. Science is an endless dialogue between experiment and theory but how can we design an experiment to show the ...
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My Christmas Lecture 2007
Celebrity Video Interviews
- Sir David Attenborough, and others
- Sir Richard Branson
- Larry Brilliant
- David Cameron
- Richard Dawkins
- Baroness Greenfield
- Raj Persaud
- Chris Stringer
Special Projects
- My kitchen experiments
- Cheltenham Science Festival
- FameLab A kind of 'Pop Idol' of science, even 'Boff Idol'!
- Science Writer The science writer competition for young people, which I set up in 1987
- Visions of Science and Technology. A science photography competition
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