The superstar stargazer and his room with a view
The Wandering Astronomer
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Why the PM will never be president
The Prime Minister
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The correct change for life's bus
On the Edge of Certainty
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Keeping God in the goodness debate
God and Goodness
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A postmodernist Mary Poppins
Philosophy and Social Hope
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All in the mind is not a diagnosis
The Myth of Pain
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Every eye feels different colours
On the Emotions
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What counts is belief in belief
Faith and reason
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a science-fiction writer originally called Harris: " One of the luckiest accidents in my wife's life...
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Memories that purge the past
As a Jew in Nazi Germany, Marianne Ellenbogen spent the second world war on the run. Biographer Mark Roseman was amazed by her recollections, especially when some of them proved to be wrong I began...
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Catholic church vs saviour of childless
In Italy, the pope wants to restrict human fertility treatment, but UK researchers have found that relationships in donor and IVF families are unusually strong Severino Antinori, Italy's charismatic...
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Don't keep mum about not being your little girl's dad
Under UK legislation, children reaching adulthood will, by the end of the decade, be able to ask the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority if they were born through donor conception or are...
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Higher channels
John Davies browses through the broadcasting week (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week "Losing Faith in Science" is the subtitle of Wednesday's The Commission (8.00 R4), in which Vivian...
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Warming to a climate of change
Before we walked the earth, our planet was subject to abrupt short-lived climate swings. Richard Alley believes that this pattern could begin again. Climate changes, and humans adapt. Through the...
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Buenos Aires
The rector of the Universidad de C"rdoba has become Argentina's education minister after the resignation of Juan Jose Llach. Hugo Oscar Juri said he would puruse his predecessor's reforms. Llach...