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Barry Phipps tells Plus how he bridges the gap between the arts and sciences as an exhibition curator.

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June 2008

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Happy Birthday Stephen Hawking!

This issue of Plus is a special, marking the occasion of Stephen Hawking's 60th birthday. Plus attended his Birthday Conference in Cambridge, where we interviewed some of the world's most influential mathematicians and physicists.

Tags: gravity : cosmology : curvature of space : Grand Unified Theory : black hole : Big Bang : quantum mechanics : general relativity : relativity : time travel : wormhole