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Five Hundred Years of Printing
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Gazing at ancient skies
Astronomy before the Telescope
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Thankless consorting
Albert
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Tryst with westerny
Granta 57: India! The Golden Jubilee - The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-97 - The God of Small Things
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How the Bomb's creator learned to love the United States
The Neutron and the Bomb
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Looking up, down the barrel
Eyes on the Universe
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Celling cancer
Matters of Life and Death - Racing to the Beginning of the Road
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Facts and frictions
Monad to Man
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A starry, starry knight
Edwin Hubble
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A brush with phenomenalism
Science and the Perception of Nature
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening line, comes from a Cincinnati kid who thought that sudden changes of mind were a good thing: "...
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Honorary degrees
University of Glasgow DD: Ernest Best, emeritus professor of divinity and biblical criticism and noted authority on the Gospel of St Mark. DEng: George Bennett, general manager of Motorola and...
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Class in action
Four students tell Elaine Carlton what they think of university teaching Annette Bailey, 21, BA hons architecture (name changed as the student feared reprisals from the department) I really felt as...
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It's an anti-national thing
A national teaching certificate could soon be compulsory for lecturers, but controversy surrounds the issue. Alison Utley finds academics sceptical Most academics reject the idea of a national...
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Art of humour
A David Starkey lecture is combative, outspoken, controversial and provocative, reports Alan Thomson David Starkey did stand-up comedy as a Cambridge undergraduate and appears to have lost little of...