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At my school, evolution was the science that dare not speak its name. My sixth grade biology teacher told us it was “just a theory that you don’t have to believe.” One teacher had a book in the back of her classroom entitled A Complete History of the Human Race. It began with Adam and Eve.

Video de l'intervention d'Evgeny Morozov "Marriage From Hell: On the Secret Love Affair Between Dictators and Western Technology Companies", conférence d'introduction au colloque 28C3, Chaos Computer Club, 27 déc 2011, Berlin.

The EU has outlined the 6 societal challenges for Research and Innovation to be tackled in the future EU Framework Research Programme HORIZONS 2020. The first 2 ‘pillars’ will encompass the food-value-chain, healthy food, sustainable food production and waste and environmental issues.

European Union nations must nearly double investment in power grid construction in the decade after 2020 if they are to get on the path to carbon-free electricity by mid-century, the European Climate Foundation (ECF) think-tank said yesterday (7 November).

The situation in Italy is frantic and uncertain. International stocks markets are holding their breath with the hope that Berlusconi’s resignation might break the debt impasse. Outside the media spotlight researchers wonder what the news might imply for Italian research and academia

Germany's parliament Friday blocked a law allowing the storage of carbon dioxide underground, as Europe's top economy wrangles over energy policy following Japan's nuclear disaster.

Social science and economics through actors and networks.

Special issue of the Greek journal Re-public: re-imagining democracy (english version) on the political role of piracy on the Web.

Screw data journalism. WikiLeaks is all about theory. A selection of the best WikiLeaks theses, cherry-picked from the Web.

The decommodification of common goods through co-governance and the deterritorialization of value through co-production are shattering the liberal assumptions which underlie state capitalisme.