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Calvert Richard Jones, Margam Castle , 1841
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Photograph of a Gentleman , c.1840
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John Plumbe, The White House Washington DC , 1846
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Down the Drain
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Ignacio Álvarez Thomas (Peruvian), ca.1840-60
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This year our Ten Things column each month is concentrating on science and scientists.
Where a group is described as “great” or “important” this is not intended to imply these necessarily the greatest or most important, but only that they are up there amongst the top flight.
Things Science Can’t Fully Explain
Why we sleep
Why we dream
Why cats purr
Placebo effect
How paracetamol works
Gravity
Why it takes more genes to make a tomato than a human
Why we yawn
Dark Matter
Big Bang & Inflation
Our monthly look at what happened 100 years ago.
On this day, 10 December 1923 …
Poet WB Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Fredrik Rehnström, Fenckell Paper Mills, Finland , 1847
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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Acropolis , 1842
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Franziska Möllinger, Thun Castle , ca.1844
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Eccentric looks at life through the thoughts of a retired working thinker