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...As Turner prize-winner Rachel Whiteread, one of Barlow’s pupils, says: “We were all fighting against the metal-bashers.”...
...Darwin’s theory of natural selection is canonically attributed to insights gained there....
...Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill and William Makepeace Thackeray all invested in railways, either directly or through their families. So did three future prime ministers....
...Alice in Wonderland responded to the bewilderment Darwin’s discoveries imposed on the Victorian mind. Kafka wrote Metamorphosis when a hostile society made him feel like an insect....
...In 1840, Charles Darwin fitted wheels to his armchair and used it to zip between specimen drawers....
...Our head of audio is Cheryl Brumley, and our sound engineer is Breen Turner. Music on this season composed by Metaphor Music. If you like the series, do leave us a review....
...A collective hum, like a Tibetan chant, erupted, and then Turner asked those who opposed the move to hum as well. A second — far louder — sound erupted....
...Even Charles Darwin, who did more than anyone to shape our conception of the natural world, did not formulate a way for us to live alongside other species....
...Ruskin’s 7,400 missives from the golden age of letter-writing include his correspondence with Charles Darwin, JMW Turner, Lord Palmerston, Octavia Hill and Thomas Carlyle....
...In Ruskin and his Contemporaries, an excellent companion to this exhibition, Ruskin scholar Robert Hewison argues that the shock of Darwin — the idea that natural beauty was created not for divine or aesthetic...
...Framed letters by such luminaries as Darwin, Freud and von Humboldt adorn the wall. We look out from the Jacobean rear of the house into the garden, where a magnolia tree has burst into blossom....
...– Adair Turner: “The computers are not in the productivity statistics precisely because they are so powerful.” – An updated style guide for China’s Party media....
...A new polymer £20 note featuring the painter JMW Turner will be released in 2020, while the Bank is currently reviewing who will appear on a new £50 note, which will follow....
...be created: Sir Winston Churchill will succeed the social reformer Elizabeth Fry on the £5 note and, following a fierce public campaign, novelist Jane Austen will grace the £10 note in place of Charles Darwin...
...“The idea of sympatric speciation has divided evolutionary opinion for a long time,” says senior author George Turner of Bangor....
...Charles Darwin wrote: “No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved.” And this largely empty space of more than 1m sq km has since attracted wealthy individuals looking to make their mark....
...He has also taken a punt on a fund which he says will make him money if the economy tanks: Darwin Leisure Property, which runs caravan parks....
...The beating heart of Georgian painting was London’s West End, yet between Hogarth and Turner (both Londoners) almost every notable British artist came “up” from the provinces....
...Yes, my friend agreed, pure Turner, all it needs is a steam train; and lo!...
...Adrian Turner, a trustee of the Fundación Beagle, says: “It’s now going to be built in Chile and sailed back to the UK for launch. UK ports were keen but there’s no money in the UK....
...Brooke-Turner is regularly invited to these schools. “I get to throw balls around to illustrate Newton and gravity, or fling our toy monkey at the children for Darwin....
...Related links: US Housing Bubble v2.0 – FT Alphaville China’s metropoli bubble fear – FT Alphaville Turner calls for powers to control asset bubbles – FT...
...John Cornwell is author of ‘Darwin’s Angel: An Angelic Riposte to “The God Delusion” ’ (Profile)...
...What will happen to it when the Turner Prize exhibition closes on January 3?...
...The Sainsbury Laboratory will house 120 scientists, as well as the university herbarium – a collection of more than 1m pressed and dried plant specimens, including those collected by Charles Darwin a former...
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