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The New Normal: Rebalancing Our Priorities

It is time for the banking and financial sectors to...

Star Dust

Interstellar space is not truly a vacuum devoid of matter...

Hardy, Littlewood, Cartwright and Ramanujan

The collaboration between G.H. Hardy (1877-1947) and J.E. Littlewood (1885-1977)...

The Victorians: Life and Death

The nineteenth century, above all in Europe, was the age...

Work and Education: Caribbean Migrations

This is a part of the series of four lectures...

More complex than Graunt could imagine: Theoretical and practical thoughts about tempo effects in the conventional period life table

Möbius and his Band

Many people have heard of the Möbius band, a one-sided...

Progresses: Royal Courts on the Move in Tudor and Stuart England

Most summers Tudor and Stuart monarchs took their court on...

Island Universes: Discovering Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way

The discovery that we live in an ordinary galaxy, one...

British Coronations: A History

Why do we crown Kings and Queens? And why has...