First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work in which the protagonist feels particularly friendly towards the end of the week: " I was born...
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And they let there be light
More Things in Heaven and Earth
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Debates in Plato's shadow
Doubt and Certainty
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Physics, metaphysics
The Comprehensibilty of the Universe
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Magic of tiny good vibrations
String Theory Volume One - String Theory Volume Two
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Four and no more
The Four-Colour Theorem
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Added values
An Introductory Course in Commutative Algebra - Geometry - Glimpses of Algebra and Geometry - Numbers and Geometry - Introduction to Linear Algebra and Linear Algebra - Introduction to Algebra -...
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A quantum leap for computation
Feynman and Computation
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Where there's holy smoke there's fire
The earliest attack on Eugenio Pacelli's wartime conduct is the 1963 play by Rolf Hochhuth, The Representative in Berlin. Hochhuth's papal portrait is of a heartless, avaricious cynic, who,...
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The devil's advocates
John Cornwell has found damning evidence against saint-in-waiting Pope Pius XII. As those about to be canonised face increased academic scrutiny, becoming a saint has never been so tough. Supplying...
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Eugenio Pacelli
(Photograph) - Along with Eugenio Pacelli (above), other controversial figures under consideration for sainthood by the Vatican include Mother Teresa (left) and the Capuchin monk Padre Pio. Hostile...
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A day in the life of superman-machine
A phone embedded in your ear, a teddy to record your child's thoughts, implants squirting neurochemicals to make you happy. Donald A. Norman describes the human body of the future. Technology changes...
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Pills, thrills and bellyaches
One in five of Britain's students is risking unwanted pregnancy by having unprotected sex. Should universities teach sex education? Helen Hague reports. One in four of Britain's students are risking...
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A very ordinary failure
Harold Wison's fixer Lord Goodman was not a crook after all, his biographer Brian Brivati has decided. His 'flaws' went far deeper than that. In Britain, in the years between the Profumo scandal of...
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Recent-history revelations are everywhere this weekend: part two of BBC2's Spying Game, the finale of C4's Can't Pay,...