MM 2001: Too hot to handle
As Britain floods, polar ice melts and droughts desiccate great swaths of land, Steve Farrar asks if such global chaos is due to climate change and, if it is, what are we doing about it? Forest fires...
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MM 2001: Family & Demography - Books
Parenting: What Really Counts? By Susan Golombok. Routledge, £45.00 What would happen to children if cloning led to a world without men? Susan Golombok says this was one of a battery of press...
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MM 2001: Different does not mean worse
The family is alive, society has not broken down, so isit time to stop calling for a return to values that were never lost and address the real issues? asks Phil Baty. Reports of the death of the...
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MM 2001: Family & Demography - People
Redefining childhood for the 21st century It is high time forchildren to be heard as well as seen, says Alan Prout , professor of sociology at the University of Stirling and Economic and Social...
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MM 2001: So rich we're poor
What did they really mean, those anti-paedophile protests on council estates over the summer? Lurking beneath them I suspect there lies a disquiet that goes way beyond the immediate issue, one so...
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MM 2001: Family & Demography - Research
Simulating policy for an ageing society (Sage) Building a UK population model from now to 2020 The population is ageing, and the implications for future social policy are massive, spanning pensions,...
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MM 2001: Is there anybody out there
Eighty-three per cent of us believe there is, and some believe life originated on Mars. Colin Pillinger outlines efforts to collect data from the Red Planet and considers the implications The...
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MM 2001: Space - Books
Looking for Earths By Alan Boss John Wiley, £20.50 and £12.50 Although a little out of date already, this book describes the discovery of planets around other stars, one of the most significant...
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MM 2001: Light of our lives
As Hubble reaches the autumn of its life, astronomy is looking to the future with a new batch of telescopes. Simon Singh outlines advances in the field Astronomy is a unique discipline. Astronomers...
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MM 2001: Space - People
Confirming and refining the inflationary model Andrew Liddle is part of the 250-strong collaboration that is preparing for the launch of the Planck satellite. His particular interest is in confirming...
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MM 2001: Space - Research
The International Space Station The biggest story of the next decade It is the largest scientific project in history and the biggest space story of the next decade. The International Space Station (...
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MM 2001: Human Rights - Books
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. By Geoffrey Robertson. Penguin, £20.00. "The notion that 'rights' might belong to anyone, anywhere, as a human inheritance was ridiculed by 19th-century philosophers," says...
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MM 2001: Human Rights - People
UN expert charged with investigating torture Governments do not look forward to getting a letter signed by Sir Nigel Rodley , professor of law at Essex University's Human Rights Centre. For he is the...
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MM 2001: Human Rights - Research
Big business learns to care Persuading large corporations to promote human rights Transnational companies under fire from human rights campaigners have changed their policies and their practice after...
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MM 2001: Values for a godless age
Does our obsession with human rights devalue the concept of duty? Francesca Klug argues that it can act as an essential bulwark against barbarity. Charter for Chaos." "Boon for lawyers." These were...