Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
Choose a theme from the listing on the left to narrow your search, or view all readings.
{categories limit="1"}
Fukushima disaster: it's not over yet
Six months after the multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the streets have been cleared but the psychological damage remains
Jonathan Watts,
Guardian, 9 September 2011
{/categories}
{categories limit="1"}
Is uncertainty the new risk?
The scientisation of uncertainty presents huge problems for policy. It suggests that policy problems can be solved by throwing more science at them.
Jack Stilgoe,
Responsible Innovation, 6 September 2011
{/categories}
{categories limit="1"}
{/categories}
{categories limit="1"}
Climate sceptics called every name in the book
Has any intellectual current ever been so disparaged and demonised, so ferociously harangued by the chattering classes, as climate-change scepticism?
Brendan O'Neill,
Australian, 3 September 2011
{/categories}
{categories limit="1"}
{/categories}
{categories limit="1"}
Would contact with extraterrestrials benefit or harm humanity? A scenario analysis
However, many discussions of this question assume that contact will follow a particular scenario that derives from the hopes and fears of the author. In this paper, we analyze a broad range of contact scenarios in terms of whether contact with ETI would benefit or harm humanity. This type of broad analysis can help us prepare for actual contact with ETI even if the details of contact do not fully resemble any specific scenario.
Seth D. Baum, Jacob D. Haqq-Misra, Shawn D. Domagal-Goldman,
Popular Physics, 22 August 2011
{/categories}
{categories limit="1"}
The Revolution will be Digitised: dispatches from the information war
At the centre is the Establishment: governments, corporations andpowerful individuals who have more knowledge about us, and more power, than at any other time in history. Circling them is a new generation of hackers, pro-democracy campaigners and internet activists who no longer accept that the Establishment should run the show.
Heather Brookes, William Heinemann, 18 August 2011
{/categories}
{categories limit="1"}
{/categories}
{categories limit="1"}
Think different
Clay Christensen lays down some rules for innovators. But can innovation be learned?
Economist, 6 August 2011
{/categories}
{categories limit="1"}
{/categories}
Page 3 of 44 pages < 1 2 3 4 5 > Last ›
Choose a theme to narrow the selection.
