Colin Tudge
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Ideas
Lunatic ideas. Colin Tudge on a key study for "anyone who wishes to understand the modern world"
- 07 October 2002
The Lunar Men: the friends who made the future (1730-1810)
Jenny Uglow Faber and Faber, 588pp, £25
ISBN 0571196470
Politics
You are wrong, Mr Blair: it is you who is prejudiced about science, and it is the people at large who have respect for the evidence
- 03 June 2002
The Prime Minister believes in the unfailing beneficence of high tech. Colin Tudge, who has devoted his adult life to scientific study, wants him to think again
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - The future of humanity
- 08 April 2002
"How beauteous mankind is!" said Miranda in The Tempest. But can natural evolution or our own genetic engineering improve on the present model?
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - Mad, bad and dangerous
- 04 March 2002
Whether it's the MMR vaccine or GM foods, people distrust what scientists tell them. And they are perfectly right to do so
Society
The New Statesman Essay - Why this scene is unnatural
- 18 February 2002
Colin Tudge dissects the case for hunting and finds it based on arguments that are flawed and outdated, intellectually as well as ethically
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - Set thine house in order
- 21 January 2002
Religion can survive if it embraces the true spirit of science
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - The love of a robot
- 10 September 2001
Is it really possible, as a new film suggests, that artificial intelligence like David (from AI: Artificial Intelligence) will experience emotions of loneliness, jealousy and fear?
Culturally challenged
- 09 July 2001
Science - Colin Tudge says Jeremy Paxman may be a smarty-pants, but he is also ignorant
Books
Bring on the vandals. After a long winter of pestilence and floods (but not famine), three new books analyse the future of British agriculture and the climate of hysteria created by the fear of infectious disease
- 21 May 2001
A Countryside For All
Edited by Michael Sissons, Vintage, 188pp, 7.99
