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John Tarrant on search technology and higher education | Education | guardian.co.uk
Headline: "Searching for the wrong answers: Researchers using search engines are in danger of mistaking information for knowledge." Discusses how search results can be completely misleadi...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/jul/24/commonwealthuniversities.internationaleducat...
Jeff Jarvis: Size doesn't matter - it's who views your content | Media | The Guardian
No more pageviews, different "engagement models" are needed to determine value of advertising
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/jan/15/mondaymediasection5
Joseph Stiglitz: How to combat scarcity in an age of plenty | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The world needs to rethink the sources of growth. If the foundations of economic growth lie in advances in science and technology, not in speculation in real estate or financial markets, ...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/15/economics.food
Kate Sheppard: James Hansen's testimony on climate change should be a wake-up call to Congress | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
We've known for decades now that action isn't an option – it's a necessity. As we once again hear from Hansen about the urgency of this issue, we should this time not let his warnings g...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/23/climatechange.carbonemissions2
Interview: Jose Manuel Barroso | Politics | The Guardian
To have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/jul/01/uk.eu
Johnny Cash: The man in black and white, | Music | guardian.co.uk
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2008/jul/09/photography?picture=335560383
Could US scientist's 'CO2 catcher' help to slow warming? | Environment | The Guardian
[US scientists] plan to build and demonstrate a prototype within two years that could economically capture a tonne of CO2 a day from the air, about the same per passenger as a flight from...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/31/carbonemissions.climatechange
Cooling on warming | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
We should tackle climate change through research and adaptation instead of trying to transform human behaviour.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/02/coolingonwarming
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Blogger sacked for sounding off
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1388249,00.html
Guardian: How to make the most of Twitter
UK newspaper article about Twitter and some of the tools available to use with it.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/08/socialnetworking.twitter
Young people have the tools for environmental change at their fingertips | Environment | The Guardian
The second generation internet has fast become the most powerful tool the environment movement has. Social networking sites, viral emails and user-generated materials offer a new range of...
2008, article, green, guardian, lifestyle, media, social, youth saved by: meryn  more details ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/14/ethicalliving.climatechange
I underestimated the threat, says Stern | Environment | The Guardian
Stern said the new findings vindicated his report, which has been criticised by climate sceptics and some economists as exaggerating the possible damage.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/18/climatechange.carbonemissions
Why do some people enjoy life and others don't? | Society | The Guardian
We have to set our sights on a good life and a meaningful life. To do this we need to identify what he calls our signature strengths, which could be anything from perseverance and leaders...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/nov/19/1
Climate target is not radical enough - study | Environment | The Guardian
The fundamental reason for his reassessment was what he calls "slow feedback" mechanisms which are only now becoming fully understood. They amplify the rise in temperature caused by incre...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/07/climatechange.carbonemissions
George Monbiot: Carbon capture is turning out to be just another great green scam | Comment is free | The Guardian
Even if it does become a viable means of disposing of carbon dioxide, new figures suggest that it's likely to enhance rather than reduce our total emissions.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/18/fossilfuels.carbonemissions
Gamesblog: A new world of mobile gaming | Technology | The Guardian
Try before you buy is an idea borrowed from Xbox Live, and it's not the only cue taken from Microsoft: N-Gage adds a community element, allowing users to take part in online multiplayer t...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/06/games.microsoft
Playtime in the classroom
Modern computer games require concentration, forward planning, lateral thinking and sustained problem solving - and, as such, offer a "cognitive workout" that can benefit overall mental d...
education, generalization, intuition, simulation saved by: meryn  more details ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1496803,00.html
The unselfish gene
Rather than having a single major function, most genes, like roads, probably play a small part in lots of tasks within the cell. By dissecting biology into its genetic atoms, reductionism...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1477776,00.html
How mirrors can light up the world | Business | The Guardian
Covering just 0.5% of the world's hot deserts with a technology called concentrated solar power (CSP) would provide the world's entire electricity needs, with the technology also providin...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2006/nov/27/renewableenergy.environment
Riots and hunger feared as demand for grain sends food costs soaring | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
The risks of food riots and malnutrition will surge in the next two years as the global supply of grain comes under more pressure than at any time in 50 years, according to one of the wor...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2221372,00.html
Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite | Environment | The Guardian
Soaring prices for basic foods are beginning to lead to political instability, with governments being forced to step in to artificially control the cost of bread, maize, rice and dairy pr...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/03/food.climatechange
Michael Pollan recommends we rediscover the joy of eating | Society | The Guardian
And so like a large grey cloud, a great conspiracy of scientific complexity has gathered around the simplest questions of nutrition - much to the advantage of everyone involved, except th...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jan/07/health.foodanddrink
Humans are still evolving - and it's happening faster than ever | Science | The Guardian
The widespread assumption that human evolution has slowed down because it's easier to live and we've conquered nature is absolutely not true. We didn't conquer nature, we changed it in wa...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/dec/11/evolution
Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | There is climate change censorship - and it's the deniers who dish it out
Global warming scientists are under intense pressure to water down findings, and are then accused of silencing their critics
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2053521,00.html
Global meltdown: scientists isolate areas most at risk of climate change | Environment | The Guardian
a team of climate experts has ranked the most fragile and vulnerable regions on the planet, and warned they are in danger of sudden and catastrophic collapse before the end of the century.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/05/climatechange
Kenya sets world first with money transfers by mobile | Money | The Guardian
Apart from transferring cash - a service much in demand among urban Kenyans supporting relatives in rural areas - customers of the Safaricom network will be able to keep up to 50,000 shil...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2007/mar/20/kenya.mobilephones
Bjorn Lomborg: Costly climate change plans hamper more effective solutions | Environment | The Guardian
While we're misled on the effects of climate change, costly plans to cut emissions are hampering cheaper, effective solutions to problems we face now, says Bjorn Lomborg.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/oct/17/comment.climatechange
Enough! The Briton who is challenging the web's endless cacophony | Technology | The Observer
Keen, who still lives in California and works in technology, questions the euphoria surrounding the rise of citizen journalism, online communities such as MySpace and user-generated websi...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/apr/29/news.newmedia
Naomi Wolf: Fascist America, in 10 easy steps | World news | The Guardian
From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and ...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment
Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | George Monbiot: Population growth is a threat. But it pales against the greed of the rich
To suggest, as many of my correspondents do, that population growth is largely responsible for the ecological crisis is to blame the poor for the excesses of the rich.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2248614,00.html
Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | How the neoliberals stitched up the wealth of nations for themselves
The conditions that neoliberalism demands in order to free human beings from the slavery of the state [...] just happen to be the conditions required to make the elite even richer, while ...
2007, article, capitalism, economics, monbiot, neoliberalism saved by: meryn  more details ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2157197,00.html
Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | This is a dazzling debunking of climate change science. It is also wildly wrong
Readers cannot expect a newspaper editor to possess a detailed understanding of atmospheric physics, but there should at least be someone who knows what science looks like whom the editor...
2006, article, globalwarming, journalism, monbiot, science saved by: meryn  more details ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1947248,00.html
George Monbiot on climate change and Big Tobacco | Environment | The Guardian
It is fair to say that the professional denial industry has delayed effective global action on climate change by years, just as it helped to delay action against the tobacco companies.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/sep/19/ethicalliving.g2
Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | This crisis demands a reappraisal of who we are and what progress means
The crisis we face demands a profound philosophical discussion, a reappraisal of who we are and what progress means. Debating these matters makes us neither saints nor communists; it show...
2007, article, ecology, monbiot, politics, progress, sustainability saved by: meryn  more details ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2221498,00.html
Business runs out of green energy supply | Environment | The Observer
Interest in cutting carbon has far exceeded new supplies of zero-carbon power - creating a potential headache for companies which have pledged to become 'carbon neutral'.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/09/renewableenergy.windpower
UK lags behind on eco energy | Business | The Observer
The British government says it is committed to renewable energy and has signed up to the latest EU generation target for 2020 - but countries across the world are doing better.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/24/greenbusiness.waveandtidalpower
Jeff Jarvis: Friendship on the web will thrive and make a fortune | Media | The Guardian
Just as the internet - well Google, really - has had a profound impact on knowledge and our relationship to it, so will the social web - well Facebook, probably - change friendship for ever
2007, article, facebook, flickr, friendship, jarvis, privacy saved by: meryn  more details ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/dec/03/mondaymediasection.facebook
Design your own revolution | Science | The Observer
What would it take for us to redesign education policy so that 1 per cent of the millions of children in British schools saw themselves as co-developers of learning, doing for education w...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/jun/19/observerfocus.theobserver
Who will inherit the mantle of JK Galbraith? | Business | The Observer
Like Galbraith, they are not always listened to, especially when their theorising does not suit the prevailing mood. But an economist on the warpath can still make life pretty awkward for...
2006, article, bhagwati, economics, galbraith, krugman, layard, stiglitz saved by: meryn  more details ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2006/may/07/politics.economicpolicy
Why short is tweet for the blogging community | Media | The Guardian
What never ceases to amaze me about the internet: create a platform, make it open, and people will do things with it that you never could have imagined.
2008, article, jarvis, microblogging, twitter, web2.0 saved by: meryn  more details ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/25/digitalmedia.blogging
Open the gates of information | Society | The Guardian
Last week, Whitehall took its first step towards this vision by publishing, with ministerial blessing, a report calling on the UK government to engage with grassroots web activism.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/jun/14/epublic.Whitehall
Inside IT: How we have been fooled by utopian visions of the future | Technology | The Guardian
Business and political leaders have consistently pushed a carefully orchestrated fantasy of the future to distract us from the present, says Richard Barbrook.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jun/07/guardianweeklytechnologysection.it
John Naughton: Thanks, Gutenberg - but we're too pressed for time to read | Media | The Observer
Users are not reading online in the traditional sense, indeed there are signs that new forms of "reading" are emerging as users "power browse" horizontally through titles, contents pages ...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/27/internet.pressandpublishing
People power transforms the web in next online revolution | Technology | The Observer
If ingenious games designers can inspire thousands of people to collaborate to solve a puzzle, could we do something similar to tackle global warming [...] ?
2008, activism, article, collaboration, future, guardian, leadbeater, opensource, p2p, socialcomputing, More... saved by: meryn  more details ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/internet.web20
Nick Carr: Neuromarketing could make mind reading the ad-man's ultimate tool | Technology | The Guardian
The more accurately [corporate pitchmen] can predict how we'll react to stimuli in the marketplace, from prices to packages to adverts, the more money they can pull from our pockets and t...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/03/news.advertising
The Word Farms of the Web
Article about low-quality articles produced by amateurs in order to generate traffic.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/27/guardianweeklytechnologysection.internet
Portraits of the dying and the newly dead
Photographer Walter Schels has created a collection of paired portraits; each pair shows a person shortly before and just after death. The commentary is fairly sobering.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/apr/01/society.photography
Portraits of the dying and the newly dead [5]
Photographer Walter Schels has created a collection of paired portraits; each pair shows a person shortly before and just after death. The commentary is fairly sobering.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/gallery/2008/mar/31/lifebeforedeath?lightbox=1
Private soldiers no longer above the law | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2183843,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
A genius explains - Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant. He can perform mind-boggling mathematical calculations at breakneck speeds. But unlike other savants, who can perform similar feats, Tammet can descri...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1409903,00.html
A bigger bang
In-depth article from The Guardian
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1937496,00.html
Climate care, Guardian Unlimited
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatecare/0,,1394054,00.html
Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | Religion in the Public Sphere
Habermas in the UK
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1583540,00.html
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | 'A near-miraculous triumph'
Archbishop Williams on the stage version of Phillip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1166054,00.html
Guardian Unlimited | Weekend | Jon Ronson meets hacker Gary McKinnon
Gary McKinnon, a UK hacker who broke into US security data, grants an interview to the Guardian while awaiting the outcome of extradition hearings.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1523143,00.html
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The denial industry
A story on astroturfing efforts by big business to discredit scientific consensus on global warming, second-hand smoke, etc.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1875760,00.html
Welcome to the World League of Despots!
No comment. Really, the whole thing is worth a read.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1891457,00.html
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Zaiba Malik wears a niqab for a day and is shocked by the reaction of strangers
A Muslim journalist in London tries wearing niqab for a day and is shocked by the negative reactions of others -- and by her own.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1924101,00.html
Catholics attack neo-pagans in Glastonbury, UK
A march organized by revivalist Catholic organization Youth 2000 in Glastonbury turns violent. Catholic youth adopt quasi-medieval tone, throw salt, threaten hellfire, promise to "cleans...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1939477,00.html
The Creation Museum in Kentucky
A Guardian reporter gets a tour of Kentucky's Creation Museum, currently under construction. His comments are mildly amusing. See also http://AnswersInGenesis.com.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1946370,00.html
Religion and war will die out, scientists predict
Daniel Dennet and others predict that as people's access to information becomes more democratic and widespread, the appeal of traditional religions and fundamentalisms will evaporate. The...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1980978,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1
Die in flight and get a free upgrade
A woman dies onboard a British Airways flight between India and England and is moved, along with her family, from economy to first class (for space reasons). Her new seatmate is shocked.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6492090,00.html
The age of endarkenment | Science | Guardian Unlimited
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/15/endarkenment?gusrc=rss&feed=science
Tariq Ali on Bhutto's killing and the PPP
Ali, who was both a friend and critic of Bhutto, argues that the time has come for the People's Party to recreate itself as a genuinely democratic alternative. Sounds like wishful thinkin...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2232632,00.html
Guardian
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Social networking | Technology | Guardian Unlimited
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/socialnetworking