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Tuesday, 29 March 2016

If you are British, please fight the government plans to make all schools into academies

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If you don’t know the problem, read Mark Steel’s excellent column: Thank God our schools have finally been liberated by our national fr...
Sunday, 27 March 2016

Are data scientists just "research parasites"?

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Although it passed me by at the time, the New England Journal of Medicine - a highly respected top-tier medical journal - featured an editor...
Saturday, 26 March 2016

Meet the world's newest lifeform: Syn 3.0

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Every now and then, a piece of science is done that is truly ground-breaking and world changing. One such piece is: Hutchison III CA et...

The blood of dinosaurs

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Courtesy of sciencegasm . Remember this when you see any cute Easter chicks*... [*Yes, I know it’s not a baby chicken. Some kind of gull...
Friday, 25 March 2016

The solution to extremism is not more extremism

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Like all civilised beings, I was dismayed (if not shocked) at the recent events in Brussels. Until our world is rid of religious extremism, ...
Wednesday, 23 March 2016

Cassetteboy has done it again

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Normally, the phrase for this kind of thing would be: “It’s funny, because it’s true.” However, being true makes this tragic . (But still fu...
Tuesday, 22 March 2016

A vote for Brexit is a vote against the next generation

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At its heart, is “Brexit” really any more complicated than whether you are self-centred and introspective (leave*) versus you care about the...