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November 2011
Minkowski enabled Einstein to supersede Newton. Today’s scientists must emulate them
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October 2011
Leonardo da Vinci is justly celebrated as an artist, but his scientific inventions did not work
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July/August 2011
Little is known about Euclid the man, but his cathedral of mathematical reasoning endures
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June 2011
South Africa’s desert is a battleground between astronomers and gas companies
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