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Articles by Siobhan Roberts

Field Notes

Arias of Darkness

Setting Joseph Conrad’s classic novel to music.

Field Notes

Cubic Connection

A reclusive amateur geometer who hates numbers receives a visitor

Education

Do the Math

Why ‘rithmetic shouldn’t make you cringe

Method

The Cosmic Geometer

How to measure the shape of the universe

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With the latest fuel surcharges, can we even afford to fly? Imagining a world without flight

From the archives: December 2007

Mission Not Yet Accomplished

How Iraq figures in Big Oil’s dreams

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