From con to icon and other risky journeys
Doggedness has carried the best scientists through the mire of public mistrust... provided they're right, says Len Fisher. Scientists have always had trouble overcoming public distrust of new ideas,...
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Darwin is alive and kicking
It is a sad day when serious inquiry is limited by the least able among a sizeable intake of first-years. It is a tragedy that university chiefs have had to adopt sophisticated management skills...
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Moral maze with toil and trouble at its heart
Anthropologists studying societies that believe in witches can encounter huge ethical dilemmas, reports Harriet Swain. Our monthly guide to the conferences taking place around the world. A woman in...
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Conference watch: November
195th meeting of the Society for Endocrinology , and Endocrinology and Diabetes Day , jointly with Diabetes UK, Royal College of Physicians, London, 1-3. Planet Earth - Are We Destroying Our Future?...
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Instant experts: Guitars
Publicity riff : This promises "an international conference celebrating the culture of the guitar in theory and practice". First day will be listening to live performances, second day will be the...
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No zeros among the friars counting casks
The Ciphers of the Monks
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How Jesus resembles Terminator
The Seven Basic Plots
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Mary's move from manners to revolutionary passion
The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft
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Gods who punish but also bless
The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology (Based on H. J. Rose's Handbook of Greek Mythology) - The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion
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Outlook poor for a once rich group
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
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Italian twist on ancient empire
Byzantium Rediscovered
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When a tattoo is fashion not fetish
The Book of Skin
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Not dull, just perfectly balanced
In Praise of Blandness
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify abook from its opening sentence, is from an American political thinker who was also a scientist: "Dear Son I have ever had a Pleasure in...
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Gut instinct for visceral images
Chapalingas