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30 September 1995

Issue 1997

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20 000 tasks under the sea

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Trust me, I'm a mathematician

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In a League of their own

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On the origin of Revolution

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Don't take the pleasure out of learning

CURIOSITY may have killed the cat but it still lures tens of thousands into continuing education classes in science. Their interest has often been aroused by books or television and radio programmes and they want to learn more. Others are simply intrigued by zany course titles such as "Chocology: the Science of Chocolate", "A Layperson's …

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Netropolitan – Netscape

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Netropolitan – Comments

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Souped-up upright piano plays prestissimo

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Technology

Battle for multimedia leaves rivals locked together

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Technology

Get on the Net with teletext

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A whole new meaning to bad breath

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The smallest experiment in the Universe

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Technology

Stop cancer, shoot the messenger

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Chemical message in a buckytube

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Plants issue their own global warning

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Why southpaws succeed in the struggle for survival

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Hive from hell roasts hunting hornets

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Inbred parasites foil malaria drugs

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Death Valley rocks skate on thin ice

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Redheads come out of the shade

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Europe dodges waste ban to keep toxic trade

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Tough copyright laws put a price on information

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Win or lose, it's all the same to a gambler

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Possibly the oldest turds in the world

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Double agent

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Con trick

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Orchids rise from the ashes

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Foresight bonanza

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NHS boycott

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Clinton's vision

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Off with their tails

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CFCs chase coke as Miami's latest vice

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Leave ozone hole to nature, say Republicans

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Genocide row at gene conference

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France claims Mururoa rocks are blast-proof

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Are high winds too much for Siberia's amorous sandpipers?

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Big bucks buy up genome secrets

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Fond farewell to a Pioneer

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Arsenic and ancient remedies

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Sad end to the summer of '95

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Place your bets on a bright idea

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Deadly hurricanes hide in Pacific

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Public good, private again

IS science sliding towards the slippery slope of privatisation as funding for government-sponsored projects dries up? More and more scientists find themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to turn to companies for support in the shape of both cash and vital data from research that only the private sector will fund. Before they know …

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A mission to deny, do little or delay?

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20 000 tasks under the sea

THIS week, a US Navy nuclear submarine finished an unusual tour of duty in the Mediterranean. The submarine, called the NR-1, has spent the past 10 days seeking out the remains of ships that sank between Rome and Carthage more than 2000 years ago. Robert Ballard, the Massachusetts scientists best known for finding the wreck …

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Trust me, I'm a mathematician

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In a League of their own

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On the origin of Revolution

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ENIGMA: Cover photo

LET me explain what you can see in the picture. I drew the large rectangle ABCD and then I took a photograph of it. I placed the photograph, that is to say the small rectangle ABCD, on the large rectangle as you see in the picture. Note that the sides of the photograph are parallel …

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Concerned opportunists, big smokes and wild spuds

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Swamp study

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Thisness and all that

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Can do kondo

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The meaning of technology

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We owe it to ourselves

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Loving and loathing

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Tick tock

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Them bones, them dry bones

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Only connect

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One of the brightest stars in the firmament

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Bestsellers from Sydney

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Uncle Albert, meet Mr Newton

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Starry, starry nights

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Trade secrets

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Scent message

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Inner eye

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Animal matters

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Glassy stares

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Gaudeamus igitur

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Smashing times

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Scienceware

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Talking bones

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Engineering as she is taught

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Making more of maths

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Tough on the old sandstone

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Be better than your competitors

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Feedback

FEEDBACK was present when the International Data Corporation held its annual European Information Technology Forum in Paris recently. Top executives from top computer companies Lotus, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Compaq all gave speeches. So did Bill Gates of Microsoft, who was in France to launch Windows 95. Needless to say all the speakers relied on …

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