First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, marks the Labour conference with the only book by a politician who would have been...
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Bloody gnomes of Zurich
Blood Money
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Reason finds a trusty champion
The Last Word
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Curiouser and curiouser
Complexity
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Complexity's conjuror
Soft Interfaces
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Constitutions of Matter: Mathematically Modelling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena
Most people accept that scientific knowledge occupies a domain that is somewhat distinct from that of everyday knowledge. This applies particularly to physics, where most concepts are expressed in...
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Guided Turing
The Legacy of Alan Turing - The Legacy of Alan Turing
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A winning strategy and some top-ranking ideas
Five Golden Rules
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Speaking Volumes: Daniel Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea
On Daniel Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Darwin's Dangerous Idea changed my life - or perhaps it was the illness that gave me time to read it. I got flu, the flu changed to chronic fatigue, and...
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Bohmian rhapsody
Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory - Interpreting the Quantum World
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A feel for coherence
The Fabric of Reality
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Shape from statistics
Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks
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Ghostbuster came to life with studious look at death
Harriet Swain, continuing our series on young researchers, talks to parapsychologist Tony Lawrence. A little more than ten years ago, when psychology lecturer Tony Lawrence was 15, he went to see the...
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Correction
There was a misprint in Andrea Dworkin's review of Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John, which appeared on September 12. The sentence "Cline's biography is conceptually sophisticated and conveys the...
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The expansion of higher education in the United Kingdom
BRITAIN'S UNIVERSITIES Official figures for 180 institutions in the UK are collected by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, including the Open University but excluding the private University of...