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Gates VS Ridley, and why both think we should look on the bright side

Bill Gates wrote in the WSJ about Matt Ridley's book The Rational Optimist, and agrees with his debunking of 'automatic pessimism' but disagrees about how a better future is acquired.

Get it while it's hot

Well, the great midlands meteorite hunt of 2010 is on. Sighted pretty much everywhere, and causing many a call to the local authorities, a meteorite that streaked across the skies earlier this week is thought to have landed somewhere in the midlands.  The Irish film board have already received film scripts: