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Thinking Scientifically

Lord Haskel 05/04/2011 – 9:16 am

We benefit a lot from the discoveries made by science.  But we can also benefit from the way that science thinks.  David Brookes hinted at this in an article last week in the Herald Tribune about tools for thinking. For instance, when an issue has many facets we try to take a “holistic view”.  We try to look at it in the round.  Science would be more specific and more thoughtful call […]

Written at 9:16 am on 05/04/2011, by Lord Haskel


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Nuclear power

Lord Soley 16/03/2011 – 9:04 am

Apart from drawing considerable satisfaction from the thoughtful exchanges below on nuclear power and the Japanese Tsunami I am struck by how different (and better) the debate is then  it would have been some years ago. The people and the media in Japan are handling this much better than the media here where even the BBC had one TV journalist yesterday saying "...now they face the horror of a sil […]

Written at 9:04 am on 16/03/2011, by Lord Soley


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Open Access to Research

Baroness Murphy 10/09/2010 – 2:53 pm

Lady Tizzy raised a serious point of frustration reently about the payment barriers that scientific and other academic journals put up to block access to research. It’s a fascinating issue because the research publishing world is changing and almost everyone wants to see research freely available to a wide audience. But publishing peer reviewed papers costs money. At present publishers of schola […]

Written at 2:53 pm on 10/09/2010, by Baroness Murphy


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Stephen Hawkins and God

Lord Soley 03/09/2010 – 3:12 pm

Stephen Hawkins is not only a great scientist but also a really good communicator. You may agree or disagree with his assessment on the origin of the universe but it makes compelling reading. I will be buying and reading the book as soon as I can. I have to declare my own view. I have never believed in a god or gods but I think it is an unprovable argument either way. Believing in a deity is […]

Written at 3:12 pm on 03/09/2010, by Lord Soley


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House of Committees

Baroness Deech 27/06/2010 – 11:47 pm

The House of Lords is settling the new membership of its Select Committees, all of which fell into abeyance with the general election. There are 16 of them, and the European Union one has 7 subcommittees. I am pleased to have been appointed a member of the House of Lords Communications Committee, the remit of which is to consider the media and the creative industries.  That will make a change fr […]

Written at 11:47 pm on 27/06/2010, by Baroness Deech


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