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20 Nov 2009
Top Story: A Joint Love Letter to Science
By Alom Shaha
Why is science important? As a teacher – faced with the inevitable question: "what’s the point of studying science?" - I set out to discover how leading scientists, writers and science teachers would reply. The answers were...
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> The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
> Where Physics and Mysticism don't meet
> Can Science Reveal the Truth?
Why is science important? As a teacher – faced with the inevitable question: "what’s the point of studying science?" - I set out to discover how leading scientists, writers and science teachers would reply. The answers were...
> Read this article
> The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
> Where Physics and Mysticism don't meet
> Can Science Reveal the Truth?
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Can Science Reveal the Truth?
In St John's gospel, Jesus Christ tells Pilate that he has come into the world to bear...
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In St John's gospel, Jesus Christ tells Pilate that he has come into the world to bear...
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Fractal Power
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Featured Poem
The Paradox of Time
By Henry Austin Dobson
Time goes, you say? Ah no!Alas, Time stays, we go;Or else, were this not so,What need to chain the hours,For Youth...
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The Paradox of Time
By Henry Austin Dobson
Time goes, you say? Ah no!Alas, Time stays, we go;Or else, were this not so,What need to chain the hours,For Youth...
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Facts
The existence of an colourless, odourless substance that was given off during combustion was first proposed during the 17th century. In 1700 Georg Ernst Stahl gave this substance the name phlogiston. > More facts
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Polonium: The Secret Agent
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