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Matt Ridley on How Fossil Fuels are Greening the Planet
CIS, Sydney, 16.6.11
Zurich Minds
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PBS Newshour: The Evolution of Prosperity
Rational Optimist
Authors at Google: The Rational Optimist
ReasonTV interview: When Ideas Have Sex
Is it okay to be optimistic?
The Rational Optimist: Intensive Farming
The Rational Optimist
Noam Kustucki @ TEDx Warsaw
Reason.tv interview
Reason interview
Pictet Matt Ridley - Feb 2012
Beyond the Rational - Matt Ridley - Zeitgeist 2012
Publications
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Rational Optimist
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Where blue eyes came from
When the crowd solves problems
Out of Africa, but when?
Wired for Culture
The beginning of the end of wind
Dematerialisation and deflating the future
Reversing extinction
Why derive morality from superstition
Flaming and soul baring -- online honesty
On ice
The distorting of the human sex ratio
The best explanation in the world
The slow cooling of our interglacial
Noise versus signal
Catching species in the act of being born
When less means more
Don't be such a silly Higgs Boson
Bioenergy versus the planet
Cheap energy means jobs
Africa needs biotech crops
The market as the antidote to capitalism
Perchance to dream
The importance of context
Double disaster
Man-made earthquakes
Mr Darcy's lack of deodorant
Nova demolishes Klein
Heresy
You can't change human nature
Reactionary, nostalgic, pessimists
Scientific heresy
Coping with only six billion
Brass farthing
From quantity to quality
John McCarthy
Bottom up beats top down at seven billion
Two numbers
Africa's Boom
All the trappings
No change makes big news
The genetics of bigger chickens
The delinquent teenager
Sex and the Red Queen
Gas against wind
We will ROC you
Hypocrisy and self deception
After carbon
Monkey metaphors
One law for some
The light at the end of the tunnel
The language window
The ancient cloud
Room for all
From not work to network
May'be we're all conspiracy theorists
TED talk viewings
Draco among the viruses
Rational Optimist by Skype
Counting species out
Why we are nice to strangers
Goldilocks heritability
The limits of sexual selection
This time it's different
The Polar Bear problem
DNA calypso
Where do carbon dioxide emissions come from?
The nature and nurture sport: talent versus effort
Ancient cousins
And the band played on
Good for the environment, after all
Greener
Britain's economic suicide
Print your own organs
A debate on labels and acidification
Cheering up others
Devils and contagious cancer
Samuel Johnson prize shortlist
A fat tale
Eating your greenery--and having it too
Unbleached if not unblemished
Politics clothed in science
Another long listing
Evolving cures cancer
The vested interests in doom
The case of the missing jetpacks
Samuel Johnson prize shortlist for Rational Optimist
The silence of the media and activists is deafening
The precautionary principle does not take into account the deaths caused by Not adopting new tecnology the deaths caused
Determined to be different
A second disease goes extinct
In denial about denial
trial and error
Get the fertiliser out we can feed the world
The surprising resilience of continental species
Bad news is lumpy, good news is smooth
Why renewables keep running out
Shale gas emissions are lower
Quintuple whammy
A long way from our peak
Making two ears grow where one grew
Evil, empathy and the evolution of morality
Spectator Diary
Wolf!
Credit for cost-cutters
Wrong about running out
The Shale gas shock
The Hayek prize
Vote for nutters and you can vote twice
Perishability and democracy
Giving money for lobbying for money
Julian Simon on rational optimism
Nobody mentioned the Spanish Inquisition
The origin of joy
My genes are my own
Econophobia vs ecophilia
Twain's half full glass
Effect and cause
Black propaganda
Diamandis and Kotler reply
Blurring the line between genetic and infectious disease
Tourniquet
Serial thriller
Alzheimer's and protein solubility
Vast
More for less
The Tourniquet Theory
Thinning vouchers?
Keeping an open mind about the sun
Sunny side
The anxiety of choice versus the tyranny of others choosing for us
High hanging fruit
Nuclear crony capitalism
The Cartesian Spectator
Nuclear's future
Leviathan versus Behemoth
Wealth and technology make the death toll smaller, not larger
A martyred and plagiarized heretic
Maritime Man
s a mobile signal now a necessity rather than a luxury?
Closing the black box
Your genes are your own to test
Speaking in hands before tongues?
Curry on the hockey stick
Who dried out the Aral sea?
A time of magnetic flux
Context is all
Seeing a cloud in every silver lining
Dunbar's number and individual differences
My Family and Other Animals
How to unlearn pessimism
Feeding nine billion people
Consensus about what?
Why do diseases cause species decline?
The personalities of the elements
Why nationalise trees?
Advocating violence
Why aliens are silent
Shale gas changes everything
Collective intelligence on the edge
Feeding of the nine billion
A fascination with parabolas
Asymmetric planning for weather
Oceans on acid again
The new versus the new-new
Carbon out, carbon in
Reputation, weather and climate
Punctured pessimists
Reasons to be cheerful
New cousins
How new words and new genes are coined
Cancer, chemicals, Carson and smoking
The strange lack of limits to growth
Delingpole on Huhne
Miller on cognitive behavioral therapy
Mental time travel
Worstall on Stern
The asymmetry effect
Self-sufficiency is another word for poverty
More on whether the weather is climate
More on shale gas
Bottom-up education
Whether it's weather or climate that matters
Sucking the oxygen from the room
Arm-wrestling with Bill Gates
The coming dash for gas
A choice between a blinding pessimism and an illuminating optimism
Ecosystems are dynamic
Whether wild weather causes innovation
Human and natural fertility
On the meaning of the word optimism
PETM theory
Let a thousand flowers bloom
David MacKay's letter
Victory on acidification!
The best shot?
Sinners that repent
Acid oceans and acid rain
Sauce for the goose
The tyranny of causation
Circular reasoning and species extinction
Thousands of results on ocean acidification
Plankton not bothered so why are we?
Rare earths versus the Earth
A puzzle
Quis custodiet?
The difference between reciprocity and exchange
Refugee ideas
Technology 1 Therapy 0 in Chile
The cat of liberty is out of the hierarchical bag
The three-dimensional photocopier
Why did the industrial revolution happen?
Where are the genes?
Collateral beneficence
Predicted nightmares almost never come true
Connecting human islands
Disgusting
Science in action
Are cattle an endangered species?
Peculiar human sex differences
Recycling clothes and houses
How to be open-minded without your brains falling out
Monbiot caught out
Crowd accelerated innovation
Hope springs in Wells
A paradox that is no
Budiansky and local food
More for less (1)
Intolerance breeds intolerance
Who's the establishment now?
Reform the IPCC for the sake of science
The reactionary left
Irrational pessimism about population
John Gray's confusion
Why health panics are so often wrong
Prosperity is the friend of wildlife
Intergalactic idea sex
The oil runs out
Collaboration or growth
German language interview
No golden age of air travel
The true price of power
Homo stramineus
Daniel Ben-Ami on pessimist puritans
Natural resilience
The Rational Optimist live on stage
Mountains and molehills
The burden of proof
Go Dutch
In the Sun
Green greed
Down with Doom
Testing past consensi
Coincidence
Common ancestors
Bastiat: Freedom and Optimism
Chimps, Neanderthals and war
More evidence of just how 'greatly exaggerated' the ocean acidification scare is
Death of a great optimist
The threat from ocean acidification is greatly exaggerated
New Scientist's errors
Don't steal this
The planetary impact of people
Monbiot's errors
Richer for poorer
African optimism
Unprecedented warming?
Handaxe and mouse
Ash, flu and mad cows
Rational Optimism on the radio
Seeds of an idea
The Mustang test
Guardian interview: 'We can overcome disease, poverty and climate change
Sunday Times review
The Rational Optimist in the Wall Street Journal
Organisms must compete in Nature's jungle
New York Times reviews The Rational Optimist
Sunday Times seria
Shale to the chief
First reviews of The Rational Optimist
Polarised on polar ice
Organic's footprint
The bright side of living longer
Oil spills
Ill wind
First Rational Optimist lecture
On thinking for yourself
Chiefs, priests and thieves
Dilute till safe
Down PAT
An ancient matin
Printed books might give people new ideas, says pope
Systematic over-reaction
How not to defend science
No contrails
Hold the good news
Let society evolve
The climate blame game
Stretching credulity
There never was a golden age of freedom
Not top down
The long-legged ape
The more we know, the more we don't know
Moral materialism
Environmental heresy
Hyper Missing Link
Being a customer of your customers
All because a Pisan merchant went to North Africa in the late 1100s.
Greenland's melting ice?
High Priests of Science
Arrival of the Chiffchaffs
A new "species" of human?
New study: Man flu not a myth
World Poverty is Falling
Kathy Lette in the Sunday Telegraph
Younger Dryas
Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest
Balance of nature
coral reefs
Mosquito sterilisation
Opposition to shale gas is a storm in a teacup
Games Primates Play (1)
The economic defeat of tuberculosis
How Dickensian childhoods leave genetic scars
High tech runs through it: the new science of fly fishing (1)
Red tape hobbles a harvest of life-saving rice
Evolution ain't what it used to be
How facebook captured capitalist "Kumbaya"
Do Human Beings Carry Expiration Dates?
Planetary Boundaries are in practice arbitrary
IQ heritability is testament to environmental equality
The zoo inside you
England's wettest June -- noise not signal
Two rival kinds of plants and their future
How Darwin would reform Britain's banks
Who's in charge if we find life on Mars?
The perils of confirmation bias - part 1
The perils of confirmation bias - part 2
Confirmation bias - part 3
Human uniqueness versus anthropomorphism
Apocalypse Not
Did your ancestor date a Neanderthal?
When genes look out for themselves
What Northumberlandia is all about (1)
Copernican demotion
An epidemic of absence
Don't Look for Inventions Before Their Time
Tobacco denial and pesticide alarm
The retreat of Arctic sea ice
The psychology of libertarian views
The benefits of GM crops
Epigenetic inheritance is a wild goose chase
Why Can't Things Get Better Faster (or Slower)?
Wolves versus lesser predators
Diseases and pests are the real ecological danger
Single vision
The Medieval Warm Period
Britain's mad biomass dash
Does sexual selection explain dislike of inequality?
Synthetic brains by 2030?
Antifragility
The mystery of why we yawn
Shale gas could cut energy bills (1)
Induced pluripotent stem cells change the ethical debate
Raymond Gosling, the forgotten man of the double helix
Seismic risks depend on location not technology
Peak farmland is here
Low climate sensitivity
The origin of life
Global outlook rosy; Europe's outlook grim
The greening of the planet
Mark Lynas challenges a green orthodoxy
Precision editing of DNA
Genes for social networks in monkeys and people
Farewell to the myth of the noble savage
Insects that put Google maps to shame
When species extinction is a good thing
Evolution, extinction and asteroids part 1
After the asteroid impact
Jurassic pigeon - the drive to revive extinct species (1)
The gas age is good news
Obsidian chronicles ancient trade
Cheap energy and the North-east of England (1)
It's weather, not climate
Nice or nasty by nature? (1)
Spectator diary (1)
Junk DNA and HeLa cells
The bitcoin bubble and Birmingham tokens
Did life arrive on earth as microbes?
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