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Wednesday January 30, 2008
Monday January 28, 2008
Sunday January 27, 2008

Drought could force nuclear shutdowns


Mother Nature has a strange sense of humour...
Thursday January 24, 2008
Wednesday January 23, 2008

The failure of neo-liberalism?


Neither the Right nor the Left seem capable of creating a society in which all benefit from increased prosperity and economic security... in the new age of globalization, both ideologies create the same phenomenon: an underclass caught between welfare and low wages, a heavily indebted middle class increasingly subject to job and pension insecurity and a new class of the super rich who escape all rules of taxation and community.

On the cusp of economic history


Is the the frontier between the state and the market "once again up for grabs"? Are responses to environmental concerns, growing income disparities and globalisation going to find themselves integrated in new economic policies or excluded from them?

Call to make Scottish notes legal


Just because they're in circulation doesn't mean they're legal tender, apparently...
Tuesday January 22, 2008

Solving a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a cookie


Is the fortune cookie really Chinese... or is it Japanese?

Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy oversimplified, scholars say


Apparently MLK is increasingly remembered for "having a dream", not for what that dream actually was.

The tip of the iceberg


Think camera bodies are expensive? Think again.
Monday January 21, 2008
Saturday January 5, 2008