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Future Human Returns With Fashion's Microchic Shake-up, Wednesday March 10

Future Human Returns With Fashion’s Microchic Shake-up, Wednesday March 10, 2010

One of London’s Five Best Talk Events The Evening Standard

‘Clever thoughts, pretty people and strong booze: could anything be better?’SpoonFed

Brought to…

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Posted by The Bad Idea Team in Events | February 17, 2010 2:19PM | 1 Comment »


Should We Allow the Private Sector to Patent Our Genes?

Should We Allow the Private Sector to Patent Our Genes?

The last few decades of genetics research have unpicked the human genome, pinning down many of the ways we are shaped by our DNA. In…

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Posted by Eleanor Beal in Sci-tech | February 16, 2010 11:57AM | 5 Comments »


Interview: Dr Brooke Rogers, Counterterrorism Innovator

Interview: Dr Brooke Rogers, Counterterrorism Innovator

Dr Brooke Rogers is an American social psychologist, who has directed her work and research at King’s College London towards analysing how terror and risk…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Tomorrow People | February 9, 2010 12:37PM | 6 Comments »


Future Human #1 is SOLD OUT: Book Now for Tickets to Future Human #2 on March 10

Future Human #1 is SOLD OUT: Book Now for Tickets to Future Human #2 on March 10

Our first Future Human event, taking place this Wednesday and subtitled ‘Advertising at the Frontiers of Consciousness’, is now completely SOLD OUT. There will be…

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Posted by The Bad Idea Team in Events | February 8, 2010 4:13PM | 1 Comment »


Product Placement May Now Be Restricted, But Still Breaks Television's Crucial Spell

Product Placement May Now Be Restricted, But Still Breaks Television’s Crucial Spell

After the black and white, the shades of grey: the government’s decision to allow product placement on UK television was modified yesterday to restrict “alcoholic…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | February 4, 2010 2:25PM | 6 Comments »


Future Human - One Week To Go!

Future Human – One Week To Go!

“Clever thoughts, pretty people and strong booze – could anything be better?” - Spoonfed

There’s just over a week to go until the first event…

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Posted by The Bad Idea Team in Events | February 3, 2010 10:26AM | No Comments »


Post-Recession, The Search for Quality of Life Begins

Post-Recession, the Search for Quality of Life Begins

Last October the UK economy was expected to have grown once again, and the recession therefore to be called to an end, but it’s taken…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 1, 2010 12:14PM | 14 Comments »


Away From the iPad Melee, Google vs. Apple Hots Up

Away From the iPad Melee, Google vs. Apple Hots Up

Alongside the 3D televisions, tablet PCs and ebook readers that dominated this year’s consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, the biggest news to come out…

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Posted by Phil Rich in Sci-tech | January 29, 2010 5:16PM | 2 Comments »


Does the UK Risk Missing Out on the Electric Car Economy of Tomorrow?

Does the UK Risk Missing Out on the Electric Car Economy of Tomorrow?

There is no longer a question mark hanging over the mass uptake of electric vehicles (EVs). The transition appears to be imminent, with the roll…

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Posted by Jennifer Allan in Green Rush | January 28, 2010 4:52PM | 1 Comment »


The Apple Tablet and the Birth of the Pre-Fan

The Apple Tablet and the Birth of the Pre-Fan

It’s Wednesday 27th January, or Year Zero for some – today we finally get to see what Apple’s tablet device is. Variously able to save…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | January 27, 2010 11:55AM | 3 Comments »


Interview: Paul Bradshaw, of UK Crowdsourced Journalism Project Help Me Investigate

Interview: Paul Bradshaw, of UK Crowdsourced Journalism Project Help Me Investigate

Recently we interviewed David Cohn, a Bay Area entrepreneur who is experimenting with crowdfunded investigative journalism (journalism funded by small donations from a wide base…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Tomorrow People | January 21, 2010 3:07PM | 1 Comment »


Post-Copenhagen, Poverty Equals Opportunity For Third World Nations

Post-Copenhagen, Poverty Equals Opportunity for Third World Nations

I divide my time between the Caribbean and Britain. When you have the option of endless summer, the predictable grey of London may seem an

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Posted by John Rapley in Green Rush | January 20, 2010 2:55PM | No Comments »