“Americans have been fed… a diet of ludicrous untruths: that the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, for instance, would have been abandoned to die of his motor neurone disease had he been unfortunate enough to live in Britain. (He does.)”
on US healthcare reform
“This is an accident… that has the potential to be almost as devastating for Russia as the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl was for the Soviet Union.”
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, London, on the explosion and flood on 17 August at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant in Siberia
“Unless citizens themselves become inconvenient, the truth will remain a minor consideration.”
on how civil disobedience may be our best hope of combating global warming
Good week for…
Unix The this month, proving that not everything in the world of digital technology rapidly becomes obsolete
Bad week for…
Bees France is facing an , adding to the woes of the honeybee
In the polls
“86 Satisfaction rating, out of 100, given to , 9 points clear of the next highest rated search site, showing “Google remains the undisputed king of search””
