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September 2017
Lucretius’s poem On the Nature of Things was written in 50 BC, yet remains as startling as ever
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April 2017
Trying to change the calendar to accommodate religious festivals has been a centuries-old minefield
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March 2017
The divide between the arts and sciences will never be fully resolved. But the gap may be narrowing
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July/August 2016
Leonhard Euler was the presiding genius at the courts of Peter, Frederick and Catherine the Great
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