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February 2010 - Volume 11, Number 2

Issue: 2
January 2010 - Volume 11 - No 1

Issue: 121
December 2009 – Volume 10 – No 12

Issue: 120
November 2009 - Vol 10 - No 11

Issue: 119
October 2009 - Vol 10 - No 10

Issue: 118
September 2009 - Volume 10 - No 9

Issue: 117
August 2009 - Volume 10 - No 8

Issue: 8
July 2009 – Volume 10 - No 7

Issue: 7
June 2009 – Volume 10 - No 6

Issue: 6
May 2009 – Volume 10 - No 5

Issue: 5
April 2009 – Volume 10 - No 4

Issue: 4
March 2009 – Volume 10 - No 3

Issue: 3

On this day...

Birth of biologist Monod

9 February

1910

Birth in Paris of French biologist Jacques Lucien Monod. In 1965 he was joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning the genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.

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Victorian thrift © Illustration by femke de jong

Changing Times: What can we learn from Victorian ideas on thrift?

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Ten things to do in … February

[2nd February 2010]

A tile from the Benedictine Abbey at Chertsey, Surrey © bridgeman art library

Richard I on Crusade

[26th January 2010]

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