Matt Ridley's Articles

  I have recently been going through the articles of Matt Ridley on his blog and I am impressed.

Here are some of the best or at least the ones that, as a libertarian technophile, I thought most important:

Alone in the Universe http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/very-well,-alone.aspx

Science is usually derived from technologic progress http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/technology-is-often-the-mother-of-science,-not-vice-versa.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/determined-to-be-different.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/global-outlook-rosy-europe's-outlook-grim.aspx

Ban of GM rice kills http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/gm-crops-don't-kill-kids-opposing-them-does.aspx

Reinventing the dodo/mammoth http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/reversing-extinction.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/why-nuclear-power-costs-so-much.aspx

Julian Simon and our good future http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/julian-simon-on-rational-optimism.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/keeping-an-open-mind-about-the-sun.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/the-probable-net-benefits-of-climate-change-till-2080.aspx

Panspermia http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/did-life-arrive-on-earth-as-microbes.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/obsidian-chronicles-ancient-trade.aspx

Getting rid of smallpox http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/sometimes-it-is-right-to-wipe-out-a-species.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/the-benefits-of-gm-crops.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/too-much-intellectual-property-smothers-innovation-(1).aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/why-can't-things-get-better-faster-(or-slower).aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/an-epidemic-of-absence.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/connecting-human-islands.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/did-your-ancestor-date-a-neanderthal.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/in-denial-about-denial.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/balance-of-nature.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/nuclear's-future.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/speaking-in-hands-before-tongues.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/the-precautionary-principle-does-not-take-into-account-the-deaths-caused-by-not-adopting-new-tecnology-the-deaths-caused.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/two-rival-kinds-of-plants-and-their-future.aspx

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/why-aliens-are-silent.aspx