Tomorrow's tonic or today's bitter pill?
Simon Targett discovers how, despite a recent dip in the share price of a major biotech firm, Britain's academic spin-off companies are still on to a good thing. Just three weeks ago the share price...
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Operation Overload in the shadow of the Somme
Information-warfare offers the prospect of a bloodless victory. Lawrence Freedman asks whether war without death is possible. We have on offer visions of a cyber-war with "logic bombs" and "high...
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A 'post' man on his rounds
The Meanings of Mass Higher Education
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We must use the technology
Foresight panels had a rocky start but should now carry on.Ben Gill explains. The 1993 White Paper Realising Our Potential highlighted the need to make wealth creation the major driver in...
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A brief history of consumption
Fables of Abundance - Marketing Madness - The Unmanageable Consumer
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The $64m helix
The Golden Helix - Genetic Engineering
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Profit in diversity
It is next to impossible to assess the true overall value of a species," Norman Myers writes in his review this week of a clutch of books on biodiversity (pages 22-28). We cannot tell what may come...
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Scots step up a gear
Six higher education institutions in Edinburgh are pioneering a Scottish superhighway scheme which is in the forefront of academic telecommunications. Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt and Napier University,...
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Disposable assets
Should we recycle paper? Roland Clift and David Pearce disagree about the most economical and environmental way of getting rid of rubbish. The paper industry is investing in recycling. The recent...
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How deep is ecology?
Steering Business Toward Sustainability - Environmental Economics - State of the World - Vital Signs 1995-1996 - Environmental Policy and Industrial Innovation - Green, Inc. - Re-Enchanting Humanity...
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All about Honest Abe
Lincoln
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Made and unmade in Britain
The Economic History of Britain Since 1700, Volume One - The Economic History of Britain Since 1700, Volume Three - The Economic History of Britain Since 1700, Volume Two
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Transfer stuns Bodmer
The retiring director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund was 'amazed and astonished' by the recent fate of the OST. He explains why to Kam Patel. Sir Walter Bodmer, the leading geneticist and...
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Jeux sans frontieres
This week The THES debate on Darwinism moves to its impact on subjects outside biology. Here Kam Patel talks to psychologist David Buss (below). Overleaf Tim Ingold considers the relevance to...
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The sight seer
Colin Blakemore's experiments on the eyes of monkeys and kittens have earned him a top research prize Q and bombs and threats from animal activists. Colin Blakemore seems more relieved than jubilant...