The Ozics Group, a Swiss biotech firm, believes it has found a way to manage osteoporosis with a newly discovered innovative material that is the perfect marriage of science and device design.

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In her remarkable new book "The Rambunctious Garden, " Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.

WSJ: Ecology and Change: Nature Has No 'Balance' for Us to Keep | Mind & Matter

David Brin, an author of science fiction who also resigned from the SETI group, accused it of attempting to stage-manage the discussion.

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"We are paying for this in our science, technology and engineering industries, but also in people's own ability to earn funds and manage their lives, " he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

BBC: Poor numeracy 'blights the economy and ruins lives'

Backed by their powerful subject associations, science, history, mathematics, languages and other subjects arrogate to themselves as much compulsory curricular time as they can manage, forcing everything else to the margins.

BBC: Viewpoints: National curriculum in England