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June 18, 2019 climate / opinion / science / society

Gaia shrugged

Our experience of the weather is true, but our knowledge of the climate is objective. Why is that distinction so important? (1900 words)

May 3, 2019 opinion / publications / society / technology

How much can we afford to forget, if we train machines to remember?

Without food we starve, without energy we huddle in the cold. And it is through widespread loss of memory that civilisations are at risk of falling into a looming dark age. (1400 words)

April 16, 2019 climate / opinion / society / technology

Bubble, bubble, is oil in trouble? The carbon bubble, Part 2

The technological train of energy market disruption has left the station. How fast will it pick up speed? (3200 words)

April 16, 2019 climate / opinion / society / technology

Bubble, bubble, is oil in trouble? The carbon bubble, Part 3

How big might the bubble be, and who gets hurt if it pops? The trillion pound gorilla. (2200 words)

March 26, 2019 memoir / opinion / science / society / technology

The children of Apollo

Rockets are dreams made into fuel and fire. And if we forget to dream, or if we only dream other dreams, we will lose the sky. (2200 words)

March 15, 2019 opinion / society / universities

We need new stories of the 21st-century university.

For many, our dreaming spires have turned into the stuff of nightmares. Where have things gone wrong? (1400 words)

March 8, 2019 books / memoir / movies / opinion / publications

A return volley

Science fiction — at its best — is always about what it means to be human. (2100 words)

March 4, 2019 astronomy / physics / technology

In praise of astonishment

Does our love of the new and strange, both in literature and science, flow from the same wellspring? On the restorative power of surprise. (900 words)

February 22, 2019 movies / opinion

They shall not grow old

A few thoughts, prompted by the film. (800 words)

February 18, 2019 opinion / physics

We are all the Tin Woodman

In what sense are we the same person today as yesterday? (2200 words)

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