Sphere of influence
Blogs can be sloppy and vitriolic, admits Owen Hatherley. But they are also a breeding ground for original voices
Science & Technology
Yield of dreams
Don't swallow the scaremongering claims of the anti-GM lobby, urges Angela Saini. Modified foods are a rational alternative to mass starvation
The art of phwoar
Free websites like Pornhub mean that explicit sex films are only a click away. But are they any good? Michael Bywater offers a classical critique
Six and out
Geologists have recorded five major extinctions throughout the Earth's history. Are we hastening the sixth, asks Philip Tonner
What would Google do? by Jeff Jarvis
Can Google's philosophy change the world? Bill Thompson finds out
Blog standard
How well does online punditry translate on the printed page? Stephen Howe finds out
Lost in the maelstrom
Fifty years after CP Snow’s celebrated lecture the ‘two cultures’ are further apart than ever, finds Eliane Glaser
Book Review: Questions of Truth: God, Science and Belief by John Polkinghorne and Nicholas Beale
AC Grayling rips into the latest attempt to bridge the God-science gap
Three-Letter Plague by Johnny Steinberg
Andrew Mueller enjoys some journalism with a human touch
The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
James Randerson encounters a strange legend of physics