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Cambridge University

An exotic curiosity

He pioneered the shelving of books vertically and cataloguing to avoid purchase of duplicates. His three works Epitomes, Materials and Table of Authors and Sciences, the last in the form of a card catalogue, anticipated the Internet and search engines.

Mandating Masks

The Tamil Nadu government of Edappadi Palaniswami welcomed with alacrity compulsory wearing of facemasks and implemented it in double quick time.

Breaking barriers

Controversially omitted from the Nobel Prize awarded to her male colleagues in 1974, astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has donated the entirety of a recent prize to boost diversity in science.