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I have only recently started playing around with taking astrophotos through my Digital SLR (single lens reflex) camera, but, even with my limited experience, I’m very pleased with the results.
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If racism is understood only in terms of slavery and lynching, then we might live in a post-racial era. But this is not an accurate view of how racism and discrimination work. Racist violence still takes place, but today discrimination more often occurs in seemingly little ways, in treatment that, if viewed as isolated events seem to not amount to much. However, psychological research lends support for these individual experiences of African Americans.
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Publisher’s Weekly this week features an article about 425 years of evolution at Cambridge University Press.
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Now, I’ve been called a Grammar Nazi many times over, but I do believe there is a clear difference between a person truly deserving of that unfortunate title and others, like myself, who believe that some rules should just be common knowledge for native speakers of the English language.
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Last week, Paul Kinzer answered my questions about planetary impacts, notably the recent one involving Jupiter. Last night, he went out with his own modest amateur astronomer's kit to see if he could snap some pictures himself. Here's what he found.
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The Boston Globe reviewed Stephen Norwood's The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower yesterday. Norwood's book is an extensively researched indictment of American Universities' cooperation with Nazis in the buildup to World War II.
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In the DNA of my family the science gene went astray. My father was a civil engineer who designed suburban roadways, but all I inherited from him was an excellent sense of direction. My cousin teaches high school science but I’ve a sneaking suspicion it’s because he likes to blow things up. I had somehow managed to avoid the nitty-gritty of most things scientific until I came to work for Cambridge.
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Professor Graham Stanton (1940-2009), emeritus Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, died of cancer on 18 July aged 69. More >>
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