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An Aberdeen software firm is to expand its headcount after landing a series of global contracts worth more than £3.6 million.

Rachel Eisendrath's "Gallery of Clouds" is a short, intense meditation on Philip Sidney and other writers who found truth in artifice.

New York Review of Books: 160 pages, $20 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. “Literature,” Rachel Eisendrath insists, “is a history of retrospection.” The observation comes early in “Gallery of Clouds,” her brief but intense meditation on the pastoral form, Philip Sidney and all the ways we find ourselves reconfigured by reading books. This is not to say that “Gallery of Clouds” is a treatise on how reading is good for us; Eisendrath has little interest in making such a case. Rathe...

Date Time Festivities kick off for Rolex Learning Center’s 10th anniversary The Rolex Learning Center (RLC), EPFL’s iconic and multipurpose building, has turned ten. To mark the occasion, the School is holding a series of special events that will kick off today and run through next spring. The RLC opened its doors to students, researchers and the broader community in February 2010 and was officially inaugurated on May 27th of the same year. Designed by architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of Japanese firm Sanaa, the RLC is intended to be both a forum for learning and knowledge shar...

Ngā Karahipi Uru Rākau – Forestry Scholarships being offered through Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology in the Bay of Plenty starting 2022. The scholarships will encourage more women and Māori into a career in forestry and wood processing. “Forestry and wood processing plays a key role in supporting New Zealand’s economic future and response to climate change,” says Debbie Ward, Director, Business and Spatial Intelligence, Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service. “Our scholarship programme provides a pathway to ensure more qualified and skilled people join our workforce as i...