Celebrity scientist
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Physicist Paul Davies finds it easy to communicate his ideas on science, and has become something of a celebrity, particularly in Australia. He has written over 25 books on popular science and appears on television or radio around once a day. Davies has a modest family background in London, England. He began thinking about the mysteries of science as a teenager and has never stopped trying to understand them since that time. His main interests are in time, the universe and the origin of life. He believes that scientists will, one day, be able to explain these issues.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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'You don't know it, but history is in you.' (Historian Simon Schama)
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Historian Simon Schama is visiting the UK to prepare a history of Britain, to be shown on television by the British Broadcasting Corporation for the millenium. Schama was born in the UK but has lived in the US for 20 years, where he works at Columbia University as a professor of humanities. He has enjoyed begin able to extend his historical research to literature and painting as well as politics in the US. Schama believes history is not only about the past. Some observers have suggested his style is too flamboyant.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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A life less extraordinary
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Former Nun Jenny Newman talks about how she left her religious order and about her work as an author. Her experiences as a nun has influenced her first two books.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2000
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