Noisy bars, cosmic quests
E=mc2 - Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
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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 child's-eye view of Nazism: "Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me...
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When philosophy entangles physics
Quantum Reflections
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Sleptons: coming your way soon
The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume Three
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Truly a sparkling subject
Crystal-Field Engineering of Solid-State Laser Materials
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Idea back in the dock
Paradigms Regained
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The list that sent mathematicians for their pencils
The Hilbert Challenge
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Six pillars of cosmic wisdom
Just Six Numbers
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Higher Channels
We are no longer producing our own television and radio guide, but several excellent all-channel UK programme guides are available on the web. For additional information about specific programmes,...
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Sermon from the Mount
The holiest site in Jerusalem, the focus of so much dogmatic and violent rivalry, can show the way to religious peace, argues Bernard Wasserstein. The Jerusalem question lies at the heart of the...
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Critical thinking on the path to peace
Palestinian intellectual Edward Said recently visited South Africa to advise on education, but while he was there he also spoke of how the country had much to teach the Middle East about the pursuit...
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Why do good neighbours become sworn enemies?
Jewish writer Eva Hoffman strives to understand the uneasy complexities of human rights and wrongs. Jennifer Wallace met her before her Amnesty lecture. Nobody is on one side or the other permanently...
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Search for a fractured past starts with a few photos and trinkets
Helen Epstein calls her latest book 'historical repair work', an attempt to understand her family's life before and after the Holocaust. She spoke to Anne Sebba for Jewish Book Week. Making sense of...
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Universities benefit from Brown's budget
Universities will benefit from a raft of measures announced in chancellor Gordon Brown’s budget designed to boost research, innovation and the knowledge economy. With a £23 billion projected surplus...
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Latest UK news
Union infighting threatens pay deal In-fighting among trade unions could derail pay negotiations between university staff leaders and employers. The stand-off between the Association of...