Simon Briscoe holds a degree is social sciences and has worked in the civil service, investment banking, and has been the statistics editor at The Financial Times in the UK since 1999. He lives in London. Hugh Aldersey-Williams studied natural sciences at St. John's College, Cambridge. He is a writer and curator and is the author of numerous books on architecture, design, and science. He lives in Norfolk, England.
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Sex, Marriage, and Children The Birth Dearth 11 Family Breakdown 19 The Marriage Squeeze 27 Something for the Weekend? 32 2 Health The Fat Thing 40 Currying Flavor 47 A Dead Duck 53 It's Amazing What They Can Do 62 Completing the Course 67 Sudden Death 74 3 Passing the Time Art is Dangerous 81 Cheers! 87 The Death of Cinema 93 4 Social Policy Golden Oldies' Time Bomb 98 Credit Crunch 104 The Housing Bubble 109 Immigrant Invasion 114 Losing Control of Your Vehicle 121 Death by Phone 127 5 The Workplace No Work or Low Pay 132 Underpaid Women 137 It's All Too Much 143 Games of Chance 148 6 Law and Order Terror Alert 155 Bang Bang 162 Crime and Punishment 167 7 The Natural World Looking Up 171 The Short, Hot Summer of 2006 178 Becoming Unsettled 184 Pigs Might Swim 192 Go with the Flow 199 Chilling News 205 8 Our Declining Resources Wild Talk 210 The Cod Delusion 218 Not a Word 225 9 Modern Science Frankenstein Foods 231 Little Wonder 239 Exposed 244 10 They're Coming to Get You Expecting Visitors 252 That's When It Hits You 259 A Skeptic's Toolkit 267 Notes 271
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