Non-existent ops
I am surprised that Michael Banner, chair of the UK's Animal Procedure Committee, is reported as being exercised by the question of transplanting pigs' hearts into chimpanzees ("Less death in the lab...
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Black to the future in the classroom
Publishing performance tables of teacher trainers will help boost the number of black teachers, says Anthea Millett. The Teacher Training Agency today published the first national profiles of the...
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Mates past their prime
Veteran research chimps must be saved from extermination, says James Mahoney. For the second time in recent years, laboratory chimpanzees in the United States face a crisis. What will become of...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its openingsentence, is from a provocative critic of Althusserian Marxism: "For some time, for many decades, the materialist...
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A life full of twistors and turns
The Geometric Universe
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All zest and little nerve
The Third Way
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Chekhov's lasting challenge
The Chekhov Theatre
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Dynamic pursuits that led to chaos
Celestial Encounters
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France's scientific sledgehammer
Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827
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Hand-outs that can damage the world
Perverse Subsidies
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How traffic jams spring up on clear roads
Mathematical Models in Applied Sciences
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Measured successes
Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
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Pilots, parachutes and a drunk's walk
Fractals, Scaling and Growth Far From Equilibrium
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Spinning a good scientific yarn
The Story of Spin
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The road to E=mc<sup>2</sub>
Einstein's Miraculous Year