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As a Brit, it’s traditional to believe that these cloudy and wet islands in the firing line of a succession of Atlantic storms are home to the most weather-obsessed nation on the planet. Not a bit of it, I’ve found; that title now definitely belongs to the U S of A. Where’s my evidence? I’ve recently written a book The Weather Observer’s Handbook, which seeks to provide guidance to professional and amateur observers alike in the business of making and maintaining weather observations. ‘Measuring the weather’ is not as easy as it sounds – making accurate measurements that are comparable with the readings from other weather stations a county away, a continent away or a century ago demands careful attention to standards set out in rather dense officialese by the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva.
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Ethics is the study of right and wrong, of which actions we should and shouldn’t perform. Not all the things we do are morally evaluable of course. If I trip over a carpet something has happened to me I haven’t done anything. The behaviours we choose, our actions, are the only behaviours of ours that are morally evaluable: in choosing them the choices we make are moral choices.
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First the Cambridge Book Club took you to London, now it’s on to Venice! This month we’re highlighting Venice: History of the Floating City by Joanne Ferraro (on sale August 14).
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Exclusive interview with Judea Pearl, winner of the 2011 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award for Contributions that Transformed Artificial Intelligence
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Our colleague Marie C. recently traveled to London for the first time, and recounts highlights from her extended layover, Anthony-Bourdain style (but maybe more touristy than gritty).
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In invalidating most of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, the Supreme Court has put the onus of immigration reform (or lack thereof) back where it belongs—with the U.S. Congress. The majority on the Court correctly held that immigration policy rests firmly with the federal government. With the Arizona decision out of the way, the difficult work remains in crafting federal immigration policy that meets the demands of the twenty first century.
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The notion that the popular press has a crucial role to play in modern democracies, and therefore must maintain its independence from government influence, is in the air these days
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