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I met Matt Ridley once, when he was at The Economist , and I wrote a piece for him (I didn't repeat the experience because their fees at...

This is moving in the right direction - towards *all* knowledge, freely online for *everyone* to use in *any* way - rather like free softwa...

As a keen Thunderbird user I've voiced my concerns that it was turning into the Cinderella of the open source world. That's why I...

Fascinating : Whatever Carl Woese writes, even in a speculative vein, needs to be taken seriously. In his "New Biology" article, h...

Its seems the US FDA, like the equivalent European authorities before it, has decided to ignore evolution : The government is on track to ap...

There is a wonderful evolutionary winnowing process underway within the mainstream media: those that get the Internet are thriving, while th...

As a big fan of the explanatory power of Darwinian evolution - which, for those still concerned about its "theoretical" status, is...

The Inquirer has an interesting story about the quaintly-named "China Rural PC", which seems to be Intel's bid (a) to make s...