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      <title>Why politicians don't get science</title>
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        <![CDATA[Brian Clegg - You often see editorials in Nature (so who writes them, then, guys?) bemoaning poor science funding or complaining about some other way that politicians mess up the scientific establishment. However, when you look at the different views on reality espoused]]>
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      <title>Scientists turn lobbyists to support UK embryology laws</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - !http://network.nature.com/system/photo/000/002/114/embryodemo.jpg! When scientists talk about demonstrating, we’re usually referring to pedagogical lab sessions. Yesterday, scientists traded lab coats for loudspeakers during a _political_ demonstration outside the UK Houses of Parliament. The rally saw ‘several dozen’ researchers, politicians and patient group]]>
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      <title>Should Second Life be banned in schools and libraries?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - One US Congressman thinks so. "Mark Kirk":http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9937956-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 believes the virtual world is full of filth not suitable for a minor audience. bq. Sites like Second Life offer no protections to keep kids from virtual 'rape rooms,' brothels, and drug stores.]]>
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      <title>A plea for intolerance</title>
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        <![CDATA[Richard Grant - I think I'm going to make myself unpopular. Over at _Popsci_, Henry "advocates":http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/brianclegg/2008/05/07/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes-and-sucklings#comment-7178 the murder of a reasonable percentage of the population. Elsewhere on the web this week I have read how over a million Londoners are quite obviously stupid]]>
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      <title>Full Marx?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Bob O'Hara - I really should write something serious today, but it'll have to come later. Instead, I want to indulge you in some politics. I was woken by the World Service[1] this morning, with this gem, a politician talking about bq. "companies]]>
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      <title>The war on science</title>
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        <![CDATA[Nicholas Wigginton - !http://www.scienceprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/epa_300.jpg! _Image from "here_":http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/04/enormously-pathetic-agency/ Chris Mooney, author of "_The Republican War on Science_":http://www.waronscience.com/home.php and contributor to the science blog "_The Intersection_":http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/ wrote an excellent piece on the state of the U.S. EPA "here":http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/04/enormously-pathetic-agency/ for "_Science Progress_":http://www.scienceprogress.org/. I have written about]]>
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      <title>City Hall and Science: Who to vote for</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - On May 1, Londoners go to the polls to elect a city mayor. Current Labour incumbent Ken Livingstone is hoping for a third term, but Conservative Boris Johnson is favourite to win. The two other main candidates are Brian Paddick]]>
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      <title>City Hall and science: Ken Livingstone</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - !http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3266/2297295852_1b4534c508.jpg?v=0! The current mayor needs no introduction to Londoners. He champions the cause of climate change, but will Red Ken’s policies be green enough if he’s elected again? *A highly skilled London* "Encouraging more young people to take up science]]>
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      <title>Dimensions of Sustainable Development</title>
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        <![CDATA[Luis Gutierrez - Hello, The term "sustainable development" includes such goals as environmental protection, biodiversity conservation, population stabilization, education, resolving the cycle of poverty and hunger, promoting gender equality, preventing violence and wars, closing the rich-poor gap, etc, etc, etc. I wonder if]]>
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      <title>City Hall and science: Brian Paddick</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - !http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2366/2307052681_86b7eda020.jpg?v=0! The Liberal Democrat candidate for mayor, "Brian Paddick":http://www.brianpaddick.org/, is a former deputy assistant commissioner and spent 30 years in the London Metropolitan Police. He plans to use new technology to reduce London’s energy usage and kickstart the transport system.]]>
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