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What Should Architecture Occupy?
The architecture field is suffering profoundly from this recession. There are innumerable unemployed and underemployed architects and designers who are suffering and will continue to suffer if they cannot find jobs (especially if the recession does a “double dip”). Perhaps it would behoove them and those of us who are employed to stand together and do something.
Guy Horton,
Archinect, 31 October 2011
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Electric selves?
The social web: Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and the host of other technologies that invite us to connect to each other through a variety of internet-based interfaces seem to be technologies that provoke existential questions. Who are we? What are we? Where are we going?
Rob Clowes,
Culture Wars, 31 October 2011
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Angels: a very short introduction
What are angels? Where were they first encountered? Can we distinguish angels from gods, fairies, ghosts, and aliens? And why do they remain so popular? And what about demons?
David Albert Jones, Oxford University Press,
27 October 2011
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What if we aren’t alone after all?
Our species has developed its beliefs, its cultures, its religions on the basis of our uniqueness, on the theory that the universe was designed expressly, perhaps solely, for us. Incontrovertible proof that we are not alone would force us to re-examine all our knowledge, to build new theories of life, its origins, its diversity, perhaps its purpose.
Richard Swan,
Independent, 27 October 2011
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The rise of the machines? Not any time soon
With all the developments in today’s technology it is easy to get carried away by science and technologists who argue we are on a precipice of a machine revolution with human beings on the way out.
Katherine Richardson,
Independent, 25 October 2011
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Why we cannot keep the lights on without nuclear energy
If we care about the security of our energy supplies: if we care about the affordability of our electricity: if we care about reducing the UK’s carbon emissions, then there is no alternative to unprecedented amounts of all viable, proven, renewable sources of electricity BUT we will still also need a significant proportion of nuclear energy in our electricity mix.
Dame Sue Ion,
Independent, 24 October 2011
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We should aspire to abundant and cheap energy for all
From fracking to Fukushima, to oil spills and the threat of global warming, an alarming aspect of the energy debate is the way it has become conducted through the prism of fear.
Tony Gilland,
Independent, 24 October 2011
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The Simpsons versus Shakespeare
Children don’t need to go to school in order to enjoy cartoons, but that it takes years of study to understand great literature and become an educated person.
Michele Ledda,
Independent, 23 October 2011
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