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  • 3 Nov 2017
    Marie Curie pictured as the only femail present at the Slovay Conference on Quantum Mechanics 1927
    Caterina A. M. La Porta

    How Marie Curie Taught Me to Persevere

    Marie Curie at 150 – Celebrating Women in STEM. I am a devoted scientist, a professor in STEM, particularly in biomedicine, and I also juggle my private life in parallel with my scientific career. I have two daughters, I have divorced from my first husband – a physicist – and remarried with another physicist with […]

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  • 2 Nov 2017
    By "Wide World Photos" and "Underwood and Underwood, New York" [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
    Bonnie J. Buratti

    My history with Madame Curie

    Bonnie J. Buratti author of Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar: A Guided Tour of the Solar System is a Senior Research Scientist and Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Here Bonnie Buratti recounts her personal history with the legacy of the 2 time Nobel winner.

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  • 5 Sep 2017
    Image Courtesy NASA
    Bonnie J. Buratti

    The Great American Eclipse

    The Great American Eclipse of August 21, 2017 NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) both place great emphasis on public engagement, giving back to the taxpayers who support space exploration. When NASA sent out a bulletin asking astronomers to speak to groups during the Great American Eclipse of August 21, 2017, I signed up. […]

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  • 3 Jan 2017
    Sarah Coates

    Top 10 Most Read fifteeneightyfour Blog Posts of 2016

    Happy New Year! Before we start afresh with new interesting blogs and content, we take a moment to reflect on a bumper year of blogging in 2016.

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  • 11 Oct 2016
    Katharina Lorenz

    Empowering Images: testing the methods for making sense of pictures

    Katharina Lorenz recounts her research process in answering the question: how – or by what analytical means – can we use mythological imagery reliably to write about ancient societies? And examines the benefits of this. Her book, Ancient Mythological Images and their Interpretation, is available now.

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  • 7 Oct 2016

    The Letters of Samuel Beckett launch in Paris

    Last week we celebrated the launch of the fourth and final volume in the acclaimed series ‘The Letters of Samuel Beckett’. The project has taken around 20 years to complete, and a few staff members from the Press attended the celebrations in Paris along with the volume’s editors George Craig and Dan Gunn. There were […]

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  • 4 Oct 2016
    Lewis and Barnes
    Geraint Lewis, Luke Barnes

    Into the Intro: A Fortunate Universe

    An Introduction from Senior Commissioning Editor, Vince Higgs Fine-tuning in physics and cosmology explores the realisation that if the Universe had even slightly different initial properties, then the world, and life as we know it, would probably never have come into being. This new book by Geraint Lewis and Luke Barnes examines how different fine-tuning […]

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  • 30 Sep 2016

    An interview with Dan Gunn on The Letters of Samuel Beckett (Part 2)

    In the second part of our interview with Dan Gunn, editor of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, we discuss what Beckett would have thought about the project and whether these letters bring us closer to the man himself.

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  • 20 Mar 2015

    Goodbyeee!

    From: Cambridge Library Collection Blog
    Alas, and thrice woe (from my point of view anyway), this is my last ever blog for the Cambridge Library Collection. I now slip away into the sunset, ...
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  • 16 Mar 2015

    Spring and Port Wine

    From: Cambridge Library Collection Blog
     … is the name of a play and then a film about Bolton, in northern England. However, I’m borrowing the title because I’ve just spent a few spri...
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