Holding
- John Lienhard, Engines of our Ingenuity (a fascinating collection of engineering history)
- Virtualization (running different operating systems on the one chip)
- Net lawyers ponder the right to link (Nicole Manktelow: links may be the glue binding the Internet, but they are also dividing it)
- The protocol puzzle (Nigel McFarlane: the Internet has changed our lives but will it survive as we know it?)
- Peter Raven, Our global future
- Paul Simons, Fatal Attraction (print; Earth's magnetic field is showing strong signs that the poles are due to switch over)
- Rich and poor - it doesn't add up (print; world leaders at the G8 summit in Canada last week could offer less than £1bn of debt relief for the very poorest nations - despite a commitment three years ago in Cologne to fund £65bn of relief)
- Mary Riddell, Fat is a fatuous issue (print; while the West hand-wrings about obesity, it is doing nothing to ease the plight of the world's starving)
- Charles Leadbeater, We should look forward to the future (print; science may bring new risks, but it is alarmist to fear that we cannot make technological advance work to humanity's advantage)
- Geraldine Bedell, Lost for wurds (print; when her eight-year old son was diagnosed with reading difficulties, Bedell discovered a whole industry of bizarre treatments and cures for dyslexia, now said to affect one in five schoolchildren; but some experts have found an old-fashioned remedy - and it's as simple as ABC)
- Kirby Urner, Jiving In J
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