Education? Priceless (Chicago Tribune)
You, too, can access MIT classes, but you have to fly solo So here I am, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in my Symmetry, Structure and Tensor Properties of Materials class. Shhh, don't distract me. Professor Bernhardt Wuensch is discussing non-crystallographic symmetry as exhibited by a five-armed starfish, and it is taking every ounce of this liberal-arts gal's concentration to ......more...Interview: Graham Swift (Guardian Unlimited)
Graham Swift was one of the 'Best Young British Novelists' in the 1980s and won the Booker in 1996. Sense of place and the spoken word are as important in his work as ever....more... Mankind threatens to destroy cradle of evolution (The Scotsman)
IT IS the remote paradise whose extraordinary wildlife inspired Charles Darwin to develop the theory of evolution. Home to hundreds of species of animals and plants found nowhere else on Earth, the Galapagos Islands hold a unique position in......more... |