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Published in: openIndiaGreed Revolution?Even if we believe that the first Green revolution benefited India by making it a food-surplus nation, it is...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe NHS Bill: take action on an unprecedented pause
Professor Wendy Savage argues that the pause in the passage of the Health and Social Care Bill, which claims to...
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Published in: HomeFukushima and Chernobyl: are there silver linings in chain reactions?The author reported on the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and from on Fukushima in 2011. The silver lining of Chernobyl...
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Published in: HomeWhat if Value were just Fact about brain-states?
The Moral Landscape, by Sam Harris, is the latest assault by the "new atheists" on their favourite targets. But does...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKClimate Rush risk arrest on train fares protestDirect action group Climate Rush became 'unfair fare dodgers' last Saturday, to highlight ever increasing rail...
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Published in: HomeTreating symptoms versus fighting causes - improving health in the developing world
Naïve faith in scientific progress to solve health issues in developing countries distracts from solutions that are...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Plot Against the NHSIn this lecture, based on the book The Plot Against the NHS, co-author Colin Leys attempts to set the record...
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Published in: HomeThe new Arctic: trade, science, politics
The opening of the Arctic to ship-passage will transform the region’s political as well as environmental landscape,...
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Published in: HomeManufacturing people and reproductive technology
Our idea of unnaturalness is a product of myth, not science. Reproductive technology is represented and imagined...
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Published in: HomeThe Song of the Survivor: T.C. Boyle and Invasive Species Eradication Programs
Humans are the only species who feel we have a responsibility to other species. T.C. Boyle's fiction explores the...
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Published in: 50.50After Fukushima
As we pursue the abolition of nuclear weapons, we also need to phase out reliance on nuclear energy. Both are...
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Published in: HomeNuclear Follies
The so-called nuclear renaissance is irrational. Just look to Libya and Japan.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe UK isn't reducing emissions; we’re outsourcing themWe British are proud of having reduced our emissions over the past 20 years. But the big picture tells a different...
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Published in: HomeReplicating Facebook revolutions: why Ahmadinejad should worry but Mugabe and Hu Jintao can wait it out
Those analysing the feasibility of “Facebook revolutions” in authoritarian countries have so far veered between...
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Published in: oDRConcealed lives: autism in RussiaA diagnosis of autism is difficult for any family; in Russia, it can be shattering. With little hope of integrating...
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Published in: HomeThe humanities and the sciences depend on each other, so cutting humanities funding hurts the "hard" subjects too
The UK educational reforms, with their utilitarian emphasis on Science and Engineering, demonstrate no understanding...
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Published in: 50.50Sterilisation: the fight for bodily integrity
Accessing justice has been a long process for the sterilized HIV positive women whose cases are being heard before a...
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Published in: 50.50Dignity denied
"In Chile medical staff pressure HIV positive women to not have children or chastise them for getting pregnant, and...
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Published in: 50.50A funding struggle for an HIV prevention in women’s handsScientific decisions over AIDS are in danger of being left at the mercy of economics as scientists and activists...
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Published in: 50.50International donors must fund female-controlled HIV prevention gel
A potential breakthrough in HIV prevention is being stifled by a lack of funding. Chi Mgbako outlines the necessity...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
