Reading for Battle

Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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1000 words: a manifesto for sustainability in design
'We think that we're in the artifact business, but we're not; we're in the consequence business'
Allan Chochinov, Core77, 1 April 2007

Poor story: an insider uncovers how globalisation and good intentions have failed the world's poor

"It's not that we're anti-African, it's just that we live in a world that can be unwittingly unpleasant to people who don't matter"

Giles Bolton, Ebury Press, 2007


It may start as an innocent flirtation, but be warned, you too could become a lonely Myspace addict
Myspace: a place to post countless photos of yourself doing stupid, inane poses and write gushing blogs for others to read?
Peaches Geldof, Guardian, 29 March 2007

Believers are away with the fairies
As the religious voice grows ever more vocal, so their secular critics have become increasingly strident
A C Grayling, Daily Telegraph, 25 March 2007

Happy talk
Can happiness be taught? It can if you're a 'positive psychologist'
Phil Hogan, Observer, 25 March 2007

Can u speak teenager?
Online social networking sites are the key to a teenager’ world, it is like a garganutuan digital version of a Jane Austen novel
Lucy Austin, Telegraph, 23 March 2007

Alcohol worse than ecstasy on shock new drug list
British scientists' call drug classification system arbitrary and 'not based on evidence'
James Randerson, Guardian, 23 March 2007

Chaining black youth to the victim culture
Neil Davenport, spiked, 22 March 2007

Science degrees without the science
Running BSc courses on CAM is to peddle archaic gobbledygook as science
David Colquhoun, Nature, 22 March 2007

A pick’n’mix attitude to free speech
Steve Bremner, spiked, 21 March 2007


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