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An odd pair with a passion for all things pure
James Joseph Sylvester - Arthur Cayley
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A few notes on teasing worms
Darwin Loves You
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Obscure object of affection
Is Pluto a Planet? A Historical Journey through the Solar System
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Dusted off to revive its gleam
The Curious History of Relativity
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Beware: English bulldog stirring
The Nations of Britain
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Belle of the battlefield who flirted amid shot and shell
Mrs Duberly's War
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Shocked and awed
From the bombardment of Guernica to the overwhelming force used in Iraq, artists have struggled to convey the full extent of terror from above, says Ian Patterson. Humankind may not be able to bear...
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It's buy, buy to women. Now the girlies rule
If Wags and conspicuous consumption are the epitome of post-feminist womanhood, we've not come a long way, baby, argues Becky Munford According to self-identified "sexist" Mike Newell, the manager of...
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Parallel lives
An academic and his undergraduate son at the same university offer different perspectives on an issue. This month: customer relations The father It all started getting weird when we discovered that...
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His book of life still awaits its completion
Systematists have struggled to preserve the order of species that Linnaeus created, but the rate at which our natural knowledge grows and threats to biodiversity make their task ever more difficult....
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Laurie Taylor Column
No need for students to feel out of touch when Ken Robards is around, Bill Batty reports. Dr Robards, a senior lecturer in small animal psychology at Poppleton University, is a man with a mission. "I...
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Supporting acts 1
The Scottish National Party's separatism is not "popular", as your columnist Maria Misra asserts (Features, March 2). At the last election, the SNP polled 17.7 per cent of the vote in Scotland, its...
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Supporting acts 2
Geoff Andrews's attempts to disparage the Open University deal with Tesco (Opinion, March 2) won't wash. Tesco customers are not "buying degrees" but gaining support for study in the same way other...
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Reactionary view
It strikes me as distinctly odd - one could say perverse even - of Hugh Willmott (Letters, February 23) to defend Foucault and Derrida as champions of "radical enlightenment" and to lump them in with...