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At the same time, two milestones in the history of chemistry will be honoured this year: the 100th anniversary of the award of the 1911 Nobel prize for chemistry to Madam Curie for her discovery of the elements polonium and radium, and the 350th anniversary of the publication of Robert Boyle's The Sceptical Chymist, the treatise that put the discipline on a proper, modern scientific footing.
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Sceptical of the Conservatives and fed up with Labour, voters turned their attention to the 'new boy' on the block - Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats.
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He says that "no significant error has come to light" in Bjørn Lomborg's book The Sceptical Environmentalist.
This state-hating free marketeer ignores his own failed experiment 2010
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Sceptical or not, Hitler dispatched a division and General Erwin Rommel to reinforce Greece against an attack that never came.
Operation Mincemeat, Operation Heartbreak, and The Man Who Never Was 2010
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I'm Sceptical whether or not she should even accept the vice presidential bid.
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Sceptical voice from the back: "Are you sure it's from them?"
Diary 2010
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Sceptical environmentalist and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world?
Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change 2010
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Over at the Sceptical Futuryst, Stuart Candy digs into this example of "architectural time travel."
Boing Boing 2008
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No, not that of Bjørn Lomborg, who became (in) famous for his book The Sceptical Environmentalist, but that of Professor Henrik Svensmark.
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No, not that of Bjørn Lomborg, who became (in) famous for his book The Sceptical Environmentalist, but that of Professor Henrik Svensmark.
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