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“... repeated illness, old age – she was shown the door. In Feminism and the Servant Problem, Laura Schwartz writes trenchantly, with one eye on the present: the failure of labour historians and others ‘to define domestic labour as real work has ensured that it was, and still is, undervalued and underpaid.’ ...”

“... balls can fit in a school bus?’ or ‘How much does the Empire State Building weigh?’ David Schwartz​ is a science policy expert with a background in physics. His father was the Nobel-winning physicist Melvin Schwartz, who met Fermi in the 1950s and passed on his admiration of the great man. But beyond the ...”

“... T he​ end of a concert performance is sometimes greeted with a rapturous silence, broken only when the players lower their instruments and the audience begins to applaud. What is probably only a few seconds of held breath can feel like an eternity. At Beare’s Chamber Music Festival last December, this honour was bestowed on Schoenberg’s string sextet, Verklärte Nacht ...”