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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Warmer, Warmer
Are people really going to give things up in the present because computer models tell of catastrophe in 25 years?
John Lanchester,
London Review of Books, 21 March 2007
The appliance of science
If scientists want to remain listened to, to bear influence on policy, they must recognise the social limits of their truth seeking and reveal fully the values and beliefs they bring to their scientific activity.
Mike Hulme,
Society Guardian, 13 March 2007
The Brain on the Stand
When historians of the future try to identify the moment that neuroscience began to transform the American legal system, they may point to a little-noticed case from the early 1990s.
Jeffrey Rosen,
New York Times, 11 March 2007
The brain on the stand
'Neuroscience, it seems, points two ways: it can absolve individuals of responsibility for acts they've committed, but it can also place individuals in jeopardy for acts they haven't committed - but might someday'
Jeffrey Rosen,
New York Times, 10 March 2007
Humans Are the Sex Organs of Technology
I claim that technology has its own agenda. What is the evidence that technology as a whole, or the technium as I call it, is autonomous?
Kevin Kelly,
Technium, 16 February 2007
Beyond Three Gorges in China
The Three Gorges dam has attracted all the headlines but several other major hydro schemes are being developed in China that will rank in the world's top ten.
Neil Ford,
International Water Power and Dam Construction, 10 January 2007
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