The village where people have dementia – and fun
How is society to look after the ever-growing number of people with dementia? A curiously...
Tim Berners-Lee urges government to stop the snooping bill
Exclusive: Extension of surveillance powers 'a destruction of human rights'The government's...
Walled gardens look rosy for Facebook, Apple – and would-be censors
In part three of our series, how the rise of app stores and social networks is making the way we...
Friedrich Kittler and the rise of the machine | Stuart Jeffries
Kittler, who died this year, suggested we weren't masters of our technological domain, but rather...
Small is beautiful – an economic idea that has sadly been forgotten | Madeleine Bunting
It is chilling that so many thinkers, politicians and academics have signed up to the deadening...
'Whale war' kicks off as Japan sends strengthened fleet to Antarctica
Sea Shepherd sends three ships to intercept the Japanese with Paul Watson promising 'aggressive...
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Beware false sightings of Adam Smith's invisible hand | Phillip Inman
Crude interpretations of the economist's ideas are popular, but a new book suggests he was no...
Evil as a common goal | Alex Haslam
Fifty years after Stanley Milgram's experiment, research is showing that awful acts involve...
Marshall McLuhan's message was imbued with conservatism | Lance Strate
Although an icon of the counterculture movement, the man who coined 'the medium is the message'...
Tech Weekly: Microsoft buys Skype, Alphagov - your government services online
This week Aleks Krotoski and Charles Arthur are ed by Tom Loosemore to look at and analyse...
The bizarre world of animal sex
Chimpanzees, along with the birds and bees, are busy doing it – but not in the way you might have...
Britain faces brain drain as cuts force top scientists to leave country
University heads warn proposed cuts to science budget threaten 'an insidious grinding down of UK...
Titans of science: David Attenborough meets Richard Dawkins
We paired up Britain's most celebrated scientists to chat about the big issues: the unity of...
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Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter
We paired up Britain's most celebrated scientists to chat about the big issues: the unity of...
Books appear as footnote at South Africa's resurrected literary festival
Blacks don't read, according to a prominent African journalist. So how can such an event...
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Africa's growing taste for the American dream
David Smith attends a glamorous fashion show in Johannesburg and tries not to feel guilty for...
Guardian Weekly Podcast No 100
In this week's show: green revolution in the US, culture shift in UK, Lithuania embraces...
In this week's show: US presses rewind button, problem of Pakistan, Sarkozy's challenge, and...
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