In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
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Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
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AT THIS time of year much attention is paid to the celebrities of science, thanks to the announcement of Nobel prizes next week.
One of the most prestigious scientific organisations in the world is the Royal Society (there are 33 living members of the Royal Society with Nobels in physiology or medicine, and 18 in physics).
Around the 1640s, a group of natural philosophers, as early scientists were known, referred to their interactions as “their Invisible College.”
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