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  • Britain's smiles better
    WHEN I was growing up in the 1970s we were warned the ice age was returning, the population explosion was unstoppable and we'd all be poisoned by chemicals in the environment. None of these things...
    Book Review | The Sun | Tuesday 6th July 2010
  • Financial Times review of The Rational Optimist
    Samuel Brittan writes: "The whole book could be regarded as a marriage of Adam Smith and Charles Darwin. Alfred Marshall, the late 19th-century economist, whose Principles of Economics...
    Book Review | Financial Times | Saturday 12th June 2010
  • When ideas have sex
    Ridley systematically builds a case through copious data and countless studies that “the vast majority of people are much better fed, much better sheltered, much better entertained, much better...
    Book Review | Scientific American | Friday 21st May 2010
  • Doomsayers Beware, a Bright Future Beckons
    by John Tierney Long before “sustainable” became a buzzword, intellectuals wondered how long industrial society could survive. In “The Idea of Decline in Western History,”...
    Book Review | New York Times | Tuesday 18th May 2010
  • Getting better all the time
    "If man really can find a way of harnessing the innovative capacity of 9 billion bright sparks, then the audacious prediction about feeding the much hungrier world of 2110 using less land than...
    Book Review | The Economist | Thursday 13th May 2010
  • Barnes & Noble review of The Rational Optimist
    "Ridley's book is a useful corrective to prevailing pessimism, and should certainly be read by anybody of an apocalyptic bent, or anybody who is convinced that renewable fuels and organic food...
    Book Review | Barnes & Noble | Wednesday 12th May 2010
  • Review of The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
    Ideas “have sex,” in Ridley’s schema; they follow a process of natural selection of their own, and as long as they continue to do so, there is reason to retire apocalyptic...
    Book Review | Publishers Weekly | Monday 12th April 2010
  • The Genome Changes Everything
    video: http://www.edge.org/video/dsl/ridley.html http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ridley03/ridley_index.html
    Interviews | Edge Foundation | Wednesday 17th March 2010
  • Eye on Books: Nature via Nurture
    http://www.eyeonbooks.com/ibp.php?ISBN=0060006781
    Book Review | | Wednesday 17th March 2010
  • Eye on Books
    The late Francis Crick is a larger-than-life figure in modern science, as co-discoverer of the DNA double helix and the man who discovered DNA's fundamental coding scheme. But he was no stereotypical...
    Book Review | Bill Thompson's Eye on Books | Wednesday 17th March 2010
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