Glittering prizes
New royal medals, awarded to fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for outstanding scholarship, have gone to: Sir Kenneth Murray for his work developing a vaccine for hepatitis B; Peter Higgs,...
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On the move
Sir Brian Follett, vice-chancellor of Warwick University, has been appointed non-executive chairman of the Arts and Humanities Research Board, and David Eastwood, pro vice-chancellor and chair of...
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Me, me, me
Satirical science magazine Annals of Improbable Research has asked readers whose DNA they believe Celera Genomics sequenced to produce a working draft of the human genome. Craig Venter, Celera...
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Poetry in motions
A debate on the National Health Service, which followed allegations of ministerial in-fighting, has inspired Mary Scanlon, Conservative spokesperson on health in the Scottish Parliament. The former...
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More poetry in motions
Among the stickier issues to be tackled at the "Theoretical Archaeology Group conference" in December will be "The Origin of Faeces: The Archaeology of Bodily Waste Products". The organisers from...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work that has a winged Cockney heroine: " 'Lor' love you, sir!' Fevvers sang out in a voice that...
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Sharp exchange over the blunt scythe of selection
Alas, Poor Darwin - Dear Mr Darwin - The Mating Mind - A Natural History of Rape
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Evil designs of pillage upon a complex cultural canvas
The Faustian Bargain
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Perchance to dream... of treacle
The Annotated Alice
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Sex and drugs and serious thought
A Brief History of the Future
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Social life of the worldwide web
Weaving the Web
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California dreaming of a nice cup of tea
Stuck in American suburbia with a sick girlfriend and a book to write... Nick Groom kicks off a three-part series on academic sabbaticals. I needed a change. What will appear on the CV is something...
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Higher channels
John Davies gives the schedules a quality audit (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Money is still a major preoccupation this week. The day after part two of Peter Jay's Road to Riches (...
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When 'ippies didn't wear Bede
Sheila Rowbotham on what it was like to be a student in the 1960s and why the era's educational vision is still valid today. One of the great mysteries is how people get hooked on education. It was...
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Are sabbaticals being phased out?
With never-ending teaching and administrative commitments, finding time to write a book, visit a distant library, or carry out experiments is a challenge. That is why the sabbatical - that period of...