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More People Getting News from Web than Print

26 Dec, 2008 | CATEGORY: 21st Century SocietyDigital Age | SOURCE: Pew Research | Comments

Results from a survey run by Pew Research Center in the US, more people are now accessing news content through the web, than via traditional print media. 40% say they now get their national and international news through the internet, compared to 35% via print media. Television is still the main source for 70% of people.

DNA Patenting Prevents Treatment of Babies

02 Dec, 2008 | CATEGORY: 21st Century SocietyBiomedicine | SOURCE: Sydney Morning Herald | Comments

Babies with a severe form of epilepsy risk having their diagnosis delayed and their treatment compromised because of a company's patent on a key gene.

The Limits to Adoption of New Technologies in the Third World

24 Mar, 2008 | CATEGORY: 21st Century SocietyDigital Age | SOURCE: The Economist | Comments

The spread of new technologies in poorer countries often depends on the availability of older and much more basic ones ones.

Global warming could fuel war

10 Jul, 2007 | CATEGORY: 21st Century Society | SOURCE: Live Science | Comments

After this year the majority of people will live in cities.

07 May, 2007 | CATEGORY: 21st Century Society | SOURCE: The Economist | Comments

Even in 1800 only 3% of the world's population lived in cities. Sometime in the next few months, though, that proportion will pass the 50% mark, if it has not done so already. Wisely or not, Homo sapiens has become Homo urbanus.