Science & Technology
James Crabtree / January 13, 2009
So, I'm confused. The Times, on Saturday, ran a startling story, claiming that two Google searches cost the same amount of carbon as boiling a kettle. The story was dynamite: Google, previously only...
Mary Fitzgerald / December 17, 2008
An Englishman's home may be his castle, but it should still be subject to a yearly MOT, says the government's chief scientific adviser John Beddington. People may think they're being "greener than...
James Crabtree / December 7, 2008
This debate caught my eye. Do Brits expect bad healthcare?
Ezra Klein says: "About a quarter of Britons are satisfied with their health care system. Less than a fifth of Americans can say the...
Tom Chatfield / November 11, 2008
A brief note for those temperamentally inclined to believe that every other click on the worldwide web is a quest for sex: in the latest Alexa rankings of the globe's 500 most-visited sites, only two...
Rory Sutherland / October 27, 2008
Peter Bazalgette's article in the most recent edition of Prospect argues for a fundamentally new model of funding media, through different sorts of adverts run by digital tracking technology...
Mary Fitzgerald / October 23, 2008
In order to survive in the increasingly lucrative and competitive phramaceutical business, big drug companies need to have several billion dollar "blockbuster" drugs on the market at any one time....
Mary Fitzgerald / September 24, 2008
America's political battles are no longer just fought on the hustings and in the television studios; some of the fiercest take place in the blogosphere. Peter Jukes, a seasoned veteran of the...
SUSAN_GREENBERG / September 11, 2008
This is the third in a series related to my cancer treatment. The first posting looked at blood,
Tom Chatfield / September 5, 2008
As the BBC and, doubtless, almost everybody else in the online information game is pointing out, google turns ten years old this weekend, a milestone marked among other things by the release of its...
SUSAN_GREENBERG / August 29, 2008
This is the second in a series related to my cancer treatment. The aim is to talk about the personal experience of illness in a broadly analytical way. The first posting looked at blood, and how its...
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