Issue 2: Michaelmas 2007

Issue 2 Cover

Regulars

Message From The CEO

Manisha Bhattacharya

Message from the President

Tanyella Allison

Cambridge Editorials

Climate Change: The Cultural Cost

Tanyella Allison

Is Tree Planting More Than Just Show?

Thomas Kluyver

Time to Revoke Invalid Gene Patents?

Hannah Price

International Features

The Case of the Pillow Angel

Julia Piper

Neuroscience and Law

Michael Amber

A Modern Philosopher's Stone

Konstantin Kashin

Global HIV Prevention Policy

Stephen Cox

Cambridge Features

Full-body CT Scanning

Ian Hunter

What Open Innovation Means for Scientists

Adrian Slusarczyk

The CSI Effect: TV's Impact on the Future of Forensic Science

Audry Lee

Are We Still Evolving?

Victor Chong

When we were told about evolution in biology classes, we were introduced to it as a process that species underwent over great periods of time. We were taught that evolution requires a selective pressure, something that causes the preferential retention of a heritable trait within the gene pool leading ultimately to the delineation between species o...

The Golem in the Room: Technology and its Central Role Within Society

David Brown

From the first flints hacked into rudimentary blades to the latest satellites, attack helicopters and wiki-sites, technology changes society. But is technology itself an agent of change? Personifying technology gives the impression of a Faustian pact, of technology having a mind of its own. Some readers may recall a TV series in 2004 featuring Jere...