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  1. In WW2, the British public were urged to give up their aluminium pots and pans, to be melted down to makeSpitfires pforbes.org/1/post/2012/05… about 16 hours ago via Tweet Button
  2. Why aluminium matters pforbes.org/1/post/2012/05… about 16 hours ago via Tweet Button
  3. #coryton Isn't petrol a strategic material? Shouldn't we be refining at least some of it in the UK? 3:05 AM May 29th via web
  4. Aluminium smelters, petrol refineries - who needs 'em pforbes.org/1/post/2012/05… 1:23 AM May 29th via Tweet Button
  5. All this fuss about pasties is absurd when no one seems to know or care that the UK is losing its aluminium industry pforbes.org/1/post/2012/05… 11:53 PM May 28th via Tweet Button
  6. Why is Britain losing its aluminium industry? pforbes.org/1/post/2012/05… 3:56 PM May 28th via Tweet Button
  7. Why Nations Fail offers a stunning model of wealth creation and destruction independent.co.uk/arts-entertain… via @Independent 6:45 AM May 28th via Tweet Button
  8. Britain and America, are showing worrying signs of lapsing into extractivism. independent.co.uk/arts-entertain… via @Independent 6:43 AM May 28th via Tweet Button
  9. Stanley, Livingstone and the other great explorers featured at Charleston Fest on Sat (sorry no Eric Clapton) charleston.org.uk/festivals/the-… 3:32 AM May 28th via web
  10. Just discovered that the Victorian explorer Stanley was an Eric Clapton lookalike. pforbes.org/1/post/2012/05… 3:27 AM May 28th via Tweet Button
  11. Hannah Rothschild, Bonnie Greer and Thelonius Monk brought the great era of bebop to life at Charleston yest charleston.org.uk/festivals/the-… 1:16 AM May 28th via web
  12. Fabulous weekend at Charleston Fest. Lots to come from Wed: McEwan, Harbach, Leibovitz, Hensher&c charleston.org.uk/festivals/the-… 1:12 AM May 28th via web
  13. There are 2 kinds of state: inclusive and extractive - the simple message of Why Nations Fail independent.co.uk/arts-entertain… via @Independent 12:34 AM May 27th via Tweet Button
  14. My review of Why Nations Fail, By Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson - independent.co.uk/arts-entertain… via @Independent 12:27 AM May 27th via Tweet Button
  15. BBC News - A farewell to ARM: Tudor Brown leaves the chip designer bbc.in/KimO6C 3:32 AM May 23rd via Tweet Button
  16. The amazing thing about Google's #Moog is that the buttons seem to work! 12:38 AM May 23rd via web
  • Name Peter Forbes
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  • Bio I write about science and art, evolution, biomimicry and camouflage, in books and for papers like the Guardian, Independent, Times and Scientific American.
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