Confronting Climate Collapse
An excerpt from Down to the Wire.
Communication Power
How are communication and power related?
Will the Internet Create a Universal Writing System?
Andrew Robinson, author of Writing and Script: A Very Short Introduction on the internet and language.
Virtual Asymmetry: The Private Law of Apple
Douglas Phillips answers the question: Can I legally make my PC think it’s a Mac?
Amazon Fail 2.0: Bookseller’s Big Brother removes Orwell’s Big Brother from Kindles everywhere
Dennis Barron looks at Amazon’s decision to pull copies of Orwell’s “1984” and “Animal Farm” from individual’s Kindle libraries.
Chrome OS:
A Shiny New Model for the Software License?
Douglas E. Phillips looks at Google’s new operating system.
BitTorrent: Legal Nightmare or Future Business Model?
A look at a BitTorrent ruling in Sweden.
Do nuclear weapons make the world a safer place?
Joseph Siracusa on whether nuclear weapons make us safer or not.
International Internet Law
How should we govern the internet?
Post Daily Show: Daniel Sperling
Daniel Sperling reflects on his Daily Show appearance.
Six-Legged Soldiers Part Three: Nerve Gases, Then and Now
The last installment of Jeffrey Lockwood’s blog on the development of nerve gases.
Six-Legged Soldiers Part Two: The Evil Trinity
Part Two of Jeffrey Lockwood’s blog on the development of nerve gases.
Six-Legged Soldiers Part One: Killing Aphids (and Humans)
Part one of a three-part blog on Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War.
Mapping Robots
Ben looks at robots and geography.
Big Answers With A Big Bang
Frank Close explains the importance of the Large Hadron Collider to us.
The Beatles, Robots… and a Giant Spider:
OUP UK’s Kate FT heads to the BA Festival of Science
OUP UK’s Head of Publicity, Kate Farquhar-Thomson, heads to the BA Festival of Science in Liverpool