Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages zeppelins armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
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Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide...
Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001 and the US...
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East from Britain's...
The world dominion of western thought forms of organisation technology and...
In modern society where most people live in cities and where both needs and...
Whatever else it was Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal...
We read too much Shakespeare at school and view our parliamentary politics...
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain...
Were there peace and justice in the Middle East the Arabs would no more need...
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I...
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics...
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are...
We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics...
The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined...
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the...
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized...
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason...
I do love science fiction but it's not really a genre unto itself it always...
If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat there is no consensus of...