Founding fathers' fever
Given that I am writing a young people's biography of Tom Paine, and our daughter has been accepted to Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia, I may be overly attuned to American revolutionary...
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Don's Diary
Monday After three weeks on board the German research vessel, Polarstern, we arrive at Drescher Inlet, a 20-kilometre crack in the Riiser-Larsen ice shelf 400 kilometres from the British Antarctic...
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Mixed blessings in a working Budget
HOW will next week's Budget affect higher education? Will it be "stop" or will it be "go"? Our productivity levels would make any chancellor of the exchequer green with envy if it could be reflected...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from the man who first introduced us all to the Butterfly Effect: "The police in...
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Dreaming uninspired
A Gift Imprisoned
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Revival of the fittest
Dramma Per Musica
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A neurotic at the keyboard
Glenn Gould
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Time marked by a shutter click
Pix, Number Two
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Too straight down the aisle
Sexual Justice
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Poetry pruned of the politicians
British Poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s - Larkin with Poetry - Tony Harrison
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Reflections on relativity
Einstein's Mirror
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Less a textbook, more of a jam session
Artificial Life
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The flaws that floored
The Origin of the Concept of Nuclear Forces
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Red and blue, now we see you
Worlds Unnumbered
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A journey in theory
The Theory of Superconductivity in the High-Tech-TC Cuprates