Entertainer mixes magic and academics

Magician Paul Draper wowed a crowd of more than 60 students and faculty as he seemingly bent a spoon with his mind, made coins disappear and identified objects with his eyes closed. Draper, the house magician at the Venetian Las Vegas Hotel, invited audience members to participate in all of his tricks at a Pierson College Master’s Tea Wednesday evening. Having earned his bachelor’s degree in ...

Audio Review: Doctor Who: Earthshock

ONE of the neatest tricks adopted by Doctor Who is its habit of explaining away historical mysteries as a consequence of alien intervention.

What Is It Like to Have an Understanding of Very Advanced Mathematics?

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Portugal's restaurants down in dumps as crisis bites

ARRUDA DOS VINHOS, Portugal (Reuters) - The last thing the Portuguese will go without is a hearty meal at one of the country's thousands of restaurants to enjoy specialties like suckling pig, grilled sea bass or 'bacalhao' cod. That could be about to change as Portugal wallows in its deepest recession since returning to democracy in the 1970s, weighed down by harsh austerity imposed by a 78 ...

Summing up

From biography to magic to authentically world-changing texts, the much-acclaimed author chooses the best guides to 'the Cinderella science' for general readers Ian Stewart is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has written over 80 books, mainly popular mathematics, and has won three gold medals for his work on the public understanding ...