Alexander the Great

Weaving a web of world history

01 September 2008

For five researchers embarking on the project ‘Civilizations in Contact’, finding the links between each of their specialist fields will provide unique insight into pre-modern...

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Violin

Virtual violins

01 September 2008

Why does one violin sound different to another? Investigating this question has brought together researchers from music, engineering, experimental psychology and computer science.

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Cambridge

Professor Simon Blackburn

01 September 2008

A prolific writer and champion of accessible philosophy, Simon Blackburn was honoured this year by the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his...

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River Dicle from Hasankeyf

Endangered dialects of Aramaic

01 September 2008

Current estimates suggest that a language dies every two weeks. Here, Geoffrey Khan describes the documentation of a group of dialects before they are lost...

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