Brief lives of some star performers
Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy - On Tycho's Island
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How to get your profile on to a biscuit
Defining Features
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No business sense, but plenty of genius
The Man Who Invented the 20th Century
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They're some jolly good fellows
Metals and the Royal Society
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Life and loves of the man in the white suit
Count Rumford
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The shifting fortunes of drift
Continental Drift - The Rejection of Continental Drift
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The icy face of George Everest
Everest
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From paper to data
Susan Whitfield once worried that her 'techie' research would hinder her career. As a showcase conference opens, she asks universities to reward digital work in the arts Paper and printing,...
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Mapping the Irish famine
Historians can be reluctant to use maps - despite the availability of computer tech-niques. But in 1991, staff at Queen's University, Belfast, started converting census statistics for Ireland into...
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Collected whispers of a curious club
UK academics have neglected the history of the freemasons. Andrew Prescott wants to use computers to map the spread of this very British organisation I have just started working on the history of...
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Higher channels
John Davies scrutinises the schedules. (All times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Ten years ago, Rupert Murdoch's Fox network nurtured the birth of The Simpsons, one of the highest collective...
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University of Cape Town:Confronting the past
The University of Cape Town began anticipating the South African revolution long before most institutions in the country. Its previous vice-chancellor, Stuart Saunders, began opening up the campus to...
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A kiss and tell story
Power peck to tongue in cheek, Harriet Swain examines the history of the kiss. In one of the final moments of the Italian film classic Cinema Paradiso, the hero watches, spliced together, his...
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Between good and evil
Andre Brink is helping to rear his black maid's child. Her life, he tells Jennifer Wallace, encapsulates South Africa's tensions - explored in his new novel. The University of Cape Town. A collection...
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Material girl
(Photograph) - Material girl: textile student Jemma Hughes-Mead relaxes on her cushions at Winchester School of Art degree show. Photograph by RUSSELL SACHS