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09:22 31.01.2008

Eight Mile websnapr

detroit music scene - how music is seen as a way out of crime. Also on the racial division between blacks and whites of the city.
175 days ago by mikey save
19:20 03.07.2007

The new age of ignorance websnapr

"50 years on from CP Snow's famous 'Two Cultures' essay, is the old divide between arts and sciences deeper than ever?" Little from column A, little from column B.
386 days ago by PaulRaven save
15:47 10.06.2007

Who's in charge here? No one | Business | The Observer websnapr

Who's in charge here? No one But it's not a recipe for failure - just the opposite. Simon Caulkin on Ricardo Semler
410 days ago by kaospilots save
20:19 04.04.2007

Court to rule if chimp has human rights websnapr

"If Hiasl is granted human status - and the rights that go with it - it will signal a victory for other primate species and unleash a wave of similar cases." The transhuman/uplift crowd will
476 days ago by PaulRaven save
12:11 13.02.2007

Google Docs undermine prognosis for Microsoft Vista websnapr

"the platform has been reduced in status to a life-support system for a web browser"
527 days ago by andypiper save
08:46 23.11.2006

Robert Pirsig | Review | The Observer websnapr

The interview: Robert Pirsig The Seventies bestseller Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was the biggest-selling philosophy book ever. But for the reclusive author life was bitter-sweet. Here,
609 days ago by ikepigott save
22:24 22.11.2006

The interview: Robert Pirsig websnapr

"The Seventies bestseller 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' was the biggest-selling philosophy book ever. But for the reclusive author life was bitter-sweet." I love that book - so
609 days ago by PaulRaven save
19:33 01.11.2006

When lit hits the fans websnapr

"Publishers are wondering whether fan.fic could produce a genuine hit or remain, at best, a marginal interest." Teh Grauniad on fan fiction.
630 days ago by PaulRaven save
21:45 03.09.2006

Nasa hopes to catch an elevator to space websnapr

"Each of the groups that will gather in New Mexico is competing to win a Nasa prize set up to encourage entrepreneurs to start development work on the technology needed to create a space elevator
689 days ago by PaulRaven save
17:58 27.08.2006

Britannia rules the raves again websnapr

Rave culture once again rears its head in the British countryside.
696 days ago by PaulRaven save
23:14 11.07.2006

The future's in the past websnapr

"At the launch of a new campaign last week to promote the study of history, Stephen Fry made a passionate appeal that we use the gripping narratives of the past to make sense of the world today.&
743 days ago by PaulRaven save
18:08 27.11.2005