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Quilting Points: An Interview with J. P. E. Harper-Scott

Musicologist J. P. E. Harper-Scott is currently a Reader in Musicology and Theory at Royal Holloway, specialising in music theory and analysis with an emphasis on Heidegger, Badiou, Žižek, Critical...

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The Week Ahead: Voices from the Past

Have you ever wandered into a crowded room and been unable to distinguish meaningful sound from the general buzz of conversation? This effect is known as the “cocktail party” problem and forms the...

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An Interview with Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is one of Britain’s foremost contemporary writers, and is speaking in Oxford on the 4th September after the release of his new novel, ‘The Children Act’. He won the Man Booker Prize for...

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‘Bang! The Complete History of the Universe’

Starting up a band means hard work for an insecure future. An aspiring musician will never know whether their band is going to break through; it might never get beyond small gigs in cafés. It is an...

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Review: Narrative and Proof

Last Wednesday’s ‘Narrative and Proof’ event, hosted by The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH) and the Mathematical Institute, had been hotly anticipated since before Christmas. In the...

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Stephen Hawking – science and fiction

In 1996, Stephen Hawking pointed out to his readers that one in 750 people on this planet owns a copy of A Brief History of Time. Sadly, this does not mean that millions of people have actually read...

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Review: ‘Too Valuable to Die? The ethics of science and scientists going to war’

A hundred years ago this year, promising scientist Henry Moseley was killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey. Despite his impressively young age — he died at age 27 — he had already made astonishing...

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Review: ‘Proof’

The lives and minds of scientists seem to elicit a curious fascination for artists. Many a stage has been filled with depictions of famous scientists, such as Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, about a...

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Review: ‘Colliding Worlds’

On Thursday October 29th, the new St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics hosted a lively evening with Arthur I. Miller, to mark the launch of his new book, Colliding Worlds. In the...

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Review: The Lyric I as Other Mind

Poets distil feelings and emotions, they have the power to translate them into words. And even within an art form often associated with subjective expression, lyric poetry is largely considered the...

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Review: ‘George and the Blue Moon’

In 2007, Lucy Hawking teamed up with her superstar physicist father Stephen to write a popular science trilogy for children. The George series, aimed at readers aged 8+, turned out to be so popular...

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