Invisible universities offer tangible rewards
Globalisation and the knowledge-based economy pose challenges to all purveyors of tertiary education, argues Jamil Salmi Imagine a university without buildings or classrooms or even a library, 10,000...
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Tables for our times
Bahram Bekhradnia tells universities they must learn from the first national measures of their performance, published today Today we are publishing performance indicators for 170 universities and...
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Exploding great green whoppers
The myth that rainforests are vital to the earth is damaging policy-making and the search for scientific truth, says Philip Stott Do we really need rainforests? For the Greens that is a rhetorical...
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Beyond ET and New Ageism
Discovering Archaeology (six times a year) - Minerva
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We have ways of making you noble
The Faber Book of Utopias - 2099
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A revolutionary future of fast travel on needless journeys
Natural Capitalism
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A rallying call for dam busters
The Cost of Living
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Industrious habits of cities past
Indus Age - Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization
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On digging for deities and intoxication
Economy and Society on Prehistoric Europe - The Living Goddesses
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a novel that transports us from a Gothic mansion in rural England to the jungles of Brazil: "...
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Multi-storied pasts
The Archaeology of Elam
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Using our grave matter
Bereavement and Commemoration
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Africa's belief and beyond
Ancient Ethiopia
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Saved by a leaky roof
La Pintura Mural Prehispánica en México, II
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The time when the smartest young Americans emulated ears of corn
Maya Art and Architecture