I was struck by this comment about TV in the Guardian today. Charlie Brooker writes about this bizarre interview with Britain’s leader of the opposition, Ed Miliband, where he repeats the same answer to every question. “The modern world suffers from a cavernous reality deficit. You know it, I know it. Even “they” know it” [...]
Archive | July, 2011
What we learned this week
Battles Lines: Interesting piece in the Financial Times about trust in science. The only hope for sustainable aviation is biofuels, so it’s something of a milestone for KLM to have flown the first commercial flight using them at the end of June. Now we just need to hurry up and get some international agreement on [...]
Europe runs out of fish tomorrow
Okay, Europe doesn’t actually run out of fish tomorrow. But if the EU depended entirely on its own waters, it would have completely depleted its fish stocks by tomorrow, the 2nd of July. At that point, any further fish dinners would have to be sourced elsewhere and imported. The EU has been disastrous at managing [...]
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