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7 Nov 2009
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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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