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How Much of You is Reflected in Your Close Relationships?

Cambridge author Stanley Gaines, Jr. discusses how much of an influence your partner can have on your own personality.

Stanley O. Gaines, Jr | 28 Jun 2018

Engaging the Research Methods Student

I’ve been teaching undergraduates for almost 25 years, and every year one of my lectures holds my students’ attention more than any other. My students are rapt, at times laughing, at times seemingly...

Wendy Heath | 25 Jun 2018

The Year Without A Summer

Jim Kozubek, author of "Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9" talks about the infamous Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Jim Kozubek | 15 Jun 2018

Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts

The magnificent collection of Samuel Beckett’s manuscripts, notebooks, letters and other material held here at Reading was fundamental to the research for my new book Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts,...

Conor Carville | 14 Jun 2018

Ask a Paleontologist…

On 1st June, Professor David Fastovsky, co-author of Dinosaurs, hosted in an exciting Reddit IAmA session. Users had the opportunity to ask  palaeontology and dinosaur-related questions in a live Q&A. Here are the best questions and answers...

David Fastosvky | 13 Jun 2018

The Invention of Rare Books

David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter.

David McKitterick | 12 Jun 2018

Selective Attention, “Alternative Facts,” and the SEEKING System

What determines the ultimate balance in the inner conflict between the truth-seeking motive on the one hand [...] and on the other hand our obvious tendencies to systematically distort reality?

Ralph Ellis | 11 Jun 2018

Behind the Scenes: Equivalents of the Riemann Hypothesis

Following moving to partial retirement from my full time position at the University of Waikato, I decided to undertake a range of “extracurricular” activities. These included participating in a Board...

Kevin Broughan | 29 May 2018

A Hundred Years of Richard Feynman

For the 100th anniversary of Richard Feynman's birth Tony Hey author of The New Quantum Universe 2nd Edition, 2003 looks at the accomplishments and legacy of this infamous physicist as well as his personal and professional history with Richard Feynman

Tony Hey | 11 May 2018

Three-hundred years of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

2019 marks the tercentenary of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719), a novel that achieved instant popularity in Britain (Defoe wrote a sequel, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, which appeared...

John Richetti | 8 May 2018

The Montpellier Psalter and ‘Writing the Early Medieval West’

Robed in elegant shades of green and purple, Christ stands holding a gospel book beneath an arch decorated with interlace. Below this portrait, a prayer has been written in a fine Carolingian minuscule,...

Elina Screen, Charles West | 2 May 2018

Hope, Resilience and The Weeping Time

In 1859, more than 400 enslaved people – men, women and 30 babies – from the Butler plantation estates of the Georgia Sea islands were sold on the auction block in Savannah, Georgia. My new book is...

Anne C. Bailey | 29 Apr 2018