Postcards from the edge
Chaos under Control - Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics
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Stars in ancient peoples' eyes
Astronomies and Cultures
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Strange seas of Thought
Newton's Principia for the Common Reader
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The philosopher as accountant
The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz
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Threads through a dark labyrinth
Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition
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Time's arrow suspended in flight
About Time
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Trials and tribulations
Subjected to Science
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an 18th-century French novelist with a taste for aristocratic games of seduction, revenge and scandal: "Goodbye, dear friend. At the moment I feel that our reason,...
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Speaking Volumes: Civilisation materielle et capitalisme, 1400 1800
Sadie Plant on Fernand Braudel's Civilisation materielle et capitalisme, 1400 1800 . In 1950, Fernand Braudel embarked on what was to become a long, intense, and convoluted journey. Wandering among...
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Appointments
ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Allan Stewart, principal of Selby College, Yorkshire, has been elected national chair of the EBEA. UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING Brian Desmond, former human...
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Grants
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON Charities. Drs N. Abbott and G. Connolly and Prof P. McNaughton, Pounds 43,005 from the Wellcome Trust (signalling between cells associated with the cerebral vasculature: the...
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Events
YIXING TEAPOTS Two master teapot makers from Yixing, China, will demonstrate their techniques during the International Potters' Festival at Aberystwyth Arts Centre (July 14-16). Yixing county on the...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS The following will become professors from August 1: Ian Wood, senior lecturer, will become professor of early medieval history; Robert Knipe, reader in structural geology; Robert...
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Casualties mount in a barmy army
Few in universities will be surprised by the statement that time spent on research has declined since the 1986 funding changes. The demands of an increased teaching load, increased administration and...
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No CVCP 'no'vote on quality
Claire Sanders's article on the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals main committee meeting at which v-cs discussed Higher Education Funding Council for England proposals for the future of...