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Euclid

Euclid's Elements has been the best-selling mathematics book of all...

From Henry Briggs to Modern Calculators

Henry Briggs, the first Gresham Professor of Geometry, developed what...

1,000 Years of Mathematics: Henry Briggs

Professor of Geometry Robin Wilson appears in costume as Henry...

Gene Therapy for Battered Brains?

The new technologies of genetic engineering offer to replace or...

Its Done with Mirrors

Why do mirros reverse left and right and not up...

Conflict and Consensus in the Age of the New Genetics: Mad, Bad or Sad

Mad, bad, sad. Categories like this are never fixed; they...

Evolutionary Theory at the Millennium

From Darwin’s classical theoy of natural and sexual selection to...

Dolly, Carrots and Sex

For biologists - and gardeners as practical biologists - cloning...

The Biological Construction of Risk: From Mendel’s ‘Hidden Determinants’ to DNA Sequences - Lecture Two

The Biological Construction of Risk: From Mendel’s ‘Hidden Determinants’ to DNA Sequences - Lecture One