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Friday, October 23, 2026
The Amazons, an all-female, barbarian tribe of mythological warriors, fascinated the ancient Greeks. Ubiquitous in art –only representations of Heracles appear more often on vase paintings– they appear battling with Greeks in sculpted scenes on classical temples. Sean Sheehan Natalie Haynes, in “Pandora’s jar”, wonders why a male-dominated […]
The current coronavirus pandemic can be coped with much better if there is a system of meaning ‘from above’, rather than merely ‘from below’. Nigel Pocock The ultimate expression of men and women, is their minds. The paradox is that we have to play the role of God […]
I am – badly – plagiarizing this formidable title from the magazine ‘Selecciones’ from the Readers Digest that I read during my childhood. . Armando Orozco Tovar . I am killing myself laughing right now at remembering the practice of covering these magazines in leather and hiding them; at what […]
Listening to a programme about the theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is convincing evidence that most of us don’t understand the fundamentals of our physical universe. Sean Sheehan Other evidence is the unquenchable thirst for books like Frank Wilczek’s “Fundamentals: ten keys to reality” by those who do. Some […]
I love libraries. When I was little, my dad took me, each week, to the local library in our tiny northern industrial town. No doubt, actually quite small, the library seemed huge to me. Steve Latham While he perused the adult shelves, I borrowed books of classic boy’s […]
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