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John Davies picks programmes of interest to THES readers. (Times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Radio 4's Saturday afternoon explorations of history's byways can be illuminating. Take this week'...
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Con on the barbarian
Archaeologist Simon James has been called an English nationalist and been accused of perpetrating genocide. Why? Because he dared to argue that the Celts never actually existed. Barry Cunliffe sorts...
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A lost civilisation?
Challenging the historical basis of Celtic identity is a hazardous pastime. Some have accused me of pursuing a clandestine English nationalist or racist agenda, of perpetrating 'genocide' and '...
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A time and emotion study
Forget IQ, whatseparates stars from ploddersin the workplace is emotional intelligence. Ayala Ochert meets the man who wants academics to teach EQ In the beginning the word was IQ. Everyone believed...
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The lords of the flies
Flies, like us, have genes for time, love and memory. Scientists are already manipulating them. And it won't be long before they are able to do this for people too, says Jonathan Weiner My father is...
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He saw that it was good
Rodney Brooks is trying to build a human. He tells Kathryn Jackson what it is like to play God Thirty years ago an Australian boy was given two books: The How and Why Book of Electricity and The How...
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Anything we can do, it can do better
Kismet is the world's first baby robot. Part of the larger Cog project, it has been created by Cynthia Breazeal to have meaningful social and emotional exchanges with humans. Though still a work-in-...
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Serious play for Pounds 3.4m Euro learning project
The Institute of Education has joined a commercial and academic consortium in a Pounds 3.4 million European-funded project to develop a virtual playground for young children. IOE researchers are...
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Character-building bit by byte
Colorado provides the backdrop for the biggest experiment in 3D virtual education, Jon Marcus reports When David Monarchi was 14, he went to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry and marvelled...
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Ethical challenge to the digital dark side
Computer technology is complex enough to change the way we think and act but the challenges it makes to the established order are rare. Artists who use computers to create more than numbers and words...
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Active Worlds
(Photograph) - Active Worlds (www.activeworlds.com) is one of the internet's most remarkable businesses, based on the notion that people would like to meet, chat (through their keyboards) and build...
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Online for Pounds 199
Thanks to a deal between Sega and BT, students who buy a Pounds 199 Dreamcast games console (pictured above) before they turn up at college for the new academic year will have free internet access...
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Walls have ears
Visitors to the Virtual Reality Software and Technology conference from December 20-22 at University College London will see CAVE, a VR room where the walls are screens and no headsets are required,...
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Five-year plan is a ray of light
A programme investigating rain forest dynamics has won new funding. Wendy Barnaby reports A new paradigm in tropical ecology research is emerging from work in Southeast Asia, and is so successful it...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk The Arts and Humanities Research Board www.ahrb.ac.uk Research...