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Curiouser and curiouser about phenomena
How Things Work - Why Toast Lands Jelly-Side Down
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Physicists are strange people
A Tale of Two Continents
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Heavy mettle fan club
Did the crowds who acclaimed Captain Scott a hero express a truth that historians are reluctant to acknowledge? Max Jones believes we should curtail our modern urge to debunk Around 11.45pm on Sunday...
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Curse of Frankenstein
The more technological we become the less we seem able to escape the shadow of a fictional monster created in 1818. Jon Turney argues that Mary Shelley's myth still infects our views in an age of...
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Will they give him their all?
If you are old, ill-kempt or malodorous, try to spruce up before getting treated for a heart attack at a US emergency room. Stefan Timmermans reports on the social prejudice that can determine if you...
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Future wages of sin in a misspent youth
Teenage tearaways earn less in later life than upright peers, say Simon Burgess and Carol Propper Teenage boys who are violent, take drugs and indulge in under-age drinking are sometimes lightly...
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Foucault: will Naomi wear it?
Valerie Steele's new journal is in vogue - which is appropriate because it mixes signifiers with safety pins to bring theory to fashion. Kate Worsley discerns some discipline in a notoriously...
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War, what is it good for?
This year's Reith lecturer John Keegan tells Harriet Swain why war, despite assorted Saddams and Serbs, is going out of fashion When John Keegan was asked to give this year's Reith lectures he says...
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Awards
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia The institute awarded the 1998 Bower Prize in Science to Martin Rees, astronomer royal of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.
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Formulae for growth
Medical education is preparing for a revolution that may never happen. Julia Hinde reports Medical academics met in London this week to discuss how best to expand medical education following a recent...
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Round-up of bids to expand teaching
Medical education is preparing for a revolution that may never happen. Julia Hinde reports Universities must submit costings for expanding medical education to the Higher Education Funding Councils...
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Chairs
University of Wales, Cardiff Sioned Davies is to be the first female professor of Welsh.She will also be head of thedepartment of Welsh, succeeding Glyn Jones. University of Manchester Promotional...
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Appointments
University College London Chris Llewellyn Smith, professor and director general of CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics), will succeed Derek Roberts as provost on April 1, 1999....
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Fellowships
Royal Society of Edinburgh The following have been elected honorary fellows: James Mirrlees, joint Nobel prize-winner for economics in 1996, professor of political economy at Cambridge University;...