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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the only Nobel laureate for literature ever to appear in Wisden: "The sun shone, having no alternative...
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A case of 'don't inheil' - Hitler
The Nazi War on Cancer
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Glues the pieces together
The Particle Century
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One of those who missed a Nobel
Master of Modern Physics
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Technology's role as the handmaid of imperialism
Science in the Service of the Empire
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Enlightened, illuminating reads
Lengthening the Day - Edison
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Nice story, out of date
Ludwig Boltzmann
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A bit of classified information
The Politics of Large Numbers
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Do genes make a genius?
Genius and the Mind
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Higher channels
John Davies lists programmes worth catching this week (times pm unless stated). Pick of the week The first of a new C4 archaeology series, Secrets of the Dead (Tuesday 9.00) has an interesting story...
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A life spent in pain
Over 40 years ago I began to examine the nervous system of animals. It was immediately apparent that the predicted hard-wired, line-dedicated, specialised pain system did not exist. Rather, there is...
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Pa!n
Patrick Wall transformed understanding of pain. Now he's suffering himself. Tim Cornwell reports He is described by a colleague as the "pain man of the century". As a medical student Patrick Wall...
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Taking things at interface value
Sherry Turkle's students say 'real life' is just another computer window - and it is not their best one. Ayala Ochert reports When Sherry Turkle came across a character in an internet "virtual room"...
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Hirst reaches for outer limits
Colin Pillinger tells Alison Goddard how he hopes to raise £25m to buy the spacecraft Beagle 2 a ticket to find life on Mars Last month, Colin Pillinger unveiled the latest weapon in his quest to...