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01 Sep 08

Ben Goldacre on the medicalisation of everyday life | Business | The Guardian

As the pace of medical innovation slows to a crawl, how do drug companies stay in profit? By 'discovering' new illnesses to fit existing products. But, says Ben Goldacre, for most problems the cure will never be found in a pill

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20 May 08

Meet the economists who know why we buy what we buy | Money | The Guardian

Orthodox economists don't recognise habits. "They assume ordinary people do a constant cost-benefit analysis on everything they do. But actually, after you reach a decision, you say, 'That's the end of it!' - and just continue."

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28 Mar 08

Gender gap: most girls just want to have fun - Telegraph

According to an incendiary new book, there is no glass ceiling. Instead, women limit themselves - not because they can't handle the challenges at the top, but because they don't want to, thank you very much.

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25 Feb 08

The murky demimonde of Amazon's Top Reviewers. - By Garth Risk Hallberg - Slate Magazine

Who Is Grady Harp? Amazon's Top Reviewers and the fate of the literary amateur.

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25 Dec 07

J.K. Rowling - TIME

Rowling's religious agenda is very clear: she does not have one. "I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity. I wasn't trying to do what C.S. Lewis did. It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's

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06 Dec 07

FilmChat: Philip Pullman -- the extended e-mail interview

I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call him a character in fiction, and a very interesting one too: one of the greatest and most complex villains of all - savage, petty, boastful and j

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