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Mark Ronan
Standing The Test Of Spacetime
The greatest scientists, such as Einstein, often made their greatest discoveries by thought experiments
Mark Ronan
Cosmos
Science
Glorious Summer
When it comes to summer festival opera, Britain tends to get it right
Mark Ronan
Counterpoints
Fiddler And The Proof
There is a link between a great Jewish musical and the search for a historic mathematical proof
Mark Ronan
Cosmos
The Ultimate Space Explorer
Alexander Grothendieck was a genius who reshaped mathematics but then withdrew from society
Mark Ronan
Cosmos
Science
The Prime Numbers Have It
New mathematics prizes show the public that the subject is constantly renewing itself with new ideas
Mark Ronan
Cosmos
Science
High pressure
A new play shows how weather forecasting affected the Normandy landings
Mark Ronan
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Science
Antediluvian Ark
An extraordinary cuneiform tablet has provided a mine of information about pre-biblical flood legends
Mark Ronan
Cosmos
Science
Overrated: Ptolemy
The Egyptian astronomer's dubious methods dominated the science for over a millennium
Mark Ronan
Overrated
Science
Underrated: Tycho Brahe
This great Danish astronomer made a heliocentric theory credible
Mark Ronan
Science
Underrated
Wotan’s Trolley
After a request to exchange a shopping trolley in Germany was lost in translation, I now know the eurozone must fail
Mark Ronan
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
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A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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