The Republicans are now the anti-science party
On climate change and evolution, the party's presidential hopefuls are wilfully ignorant
Paul Krugman, Observer, 4 September 2011

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

Why Oscar Pistorius deserves to run
If prosthetics do give Pistorius an edge in the 400 meters, nobody's found a way to prove it.
Ford Vox, CNN, 27 August 2011

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

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

Coming soon to a terminal near you
Shale gas should make the world a cleaner, safer place
Economist, 6 August 2011

Think different
Clay Christensen lays down some rules for innovators. But can innovation be learned?
Economist, 6 August 2011

Cruelty to farm animals should come as no surprise
Shocking as revelations of cruelty to pigs at a slaughterhouse are, they point to a deeper malaise
Alasdair Cochrane, Guardian, 5 August 2011

Height and cancer risk – the long and short of it
Today, Cancer Research UK scientists have published research showing that taller people seem to be have a higher risk of cancer. This may seem alarming, but tall people needn’t be too worried about these results.
Jess Harris, Cancer Research UK, 21 July 2011

'BBC's biased climate science reporting isn't biased enough' claims report
Dr Jones sets out his ideological position fairly early on when he strives to bracket global warming 'denialism' with a range of other syndromes: believing that 'AIDS has nothing to do with viruses, the MMR vaccine is unsafe, complex organs could never evolve, or even that the 9/11 disaster was a US government plot...
James Delingpole, Telegraph, 21 July 2011