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Posted on: 08 May 2012 in Opinions
Dr Richard Willden, Dr Takafumi Nishino and Prof Guy Houlsby of the Oxford Martin School’s Programme on Globalising Tidal Power Generation organised the first Oxford Tidal Energy Workshop on the 29th and 30th March 2012. Here, they tell us a... Read More »
Posted on: 01 May 2012 in Opinions
When it comes to reducing energy in vehicle transportation you can’t put all your eggs in one basket. Policy assumptions that began to see electric vehicles and hybrids as a silver bullet solution to the decarbonisation of transport are b... Read More »
Posted on: 25 Apr 2012 in Opinions
President of the European Council, His Excellency Herman van Rompuy (right) with Professor Ian Goldin Marine Le Pen’s unexpected result in the weekend’s French election is symbolic of a growing anti-migration, Eurosceptic, anti-... Read More »
Posted on: 24 Apr 2012
When you get a pop up on your screen telling you that the privacy settings have changed, what do you do? Press accept, in the rush to get to your web page? Yes? Big mistake. As we enter the Hybrid Age, the importance of taking personal responsi... Read More »
Posted on: 23 Apr 2012 in Opinions
Professor Sunetra Gupta, James Martin Senior Fellow at the Institute for Vaccine Design, has parallel careers as both a scientist and a novelist. Her fifth novel, So Good in Black was published in February 2009. She was named as the winn... Read More »
Posted on: 23 Apr 2012 in Opinions
Jennifer Welsh, Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, comments on the patience and impartiality that makes Kofi Annan a super negotiator Spare a thought for the tireless Kofi Annan, criss-crossing the globe in s... Read More »
Posted on: 20 Apr 2012 in Events
Photo: Zdolbunov, Ukrainian SSR, 14 October 1942 A group of about 100 women lay stripped of their clothes, face down on the ground. Two men, bearing rifles, are shooting them, one by one. This isn’t some fictional drama. It’s a ... Read More »
Posted on: 19 Apr 2012 in Opinions
We must ethically control synthetic biology or the threat of bioterrorism could become a reality that’s too easily accessible, warns Julian Savulescu, Director of the Institute for Science and Ethics. In April 2010, Craig Venter... Read More »
Posted on: 18 Apr 2012 in Opinions
The nomination by the US Government of physician Jim Yong Kim for the World Bank Presidency triggered the usual debate over the fairness of the electoral process, as well as intense scrutiny of Kim’s qualifications and experience. But missin... Read More »
Posted on: 10 Apr 2012 in Opinions
Ahead of the lecture "Catastrophic dehumanization: the psychological dynamics of severe conflict", Oxford Martin School Events Officer, Clara Bowyer, asked speaker, Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon, to tell her more about his work 1.&nbs... Read More »
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