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PhDs without tears: how academics can help ease students’ minds
With many doctoral candidates unhappy and reporting mental health problems, Emma Pierson suggests ways supervisors could reduce pressures
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Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are, by Robert Plomin
Danny Dorling learns about the extent to which our DNA dictates how we lead our lives
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When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, by Jason Brennan
Lisa Mckenzie finds a challenging but essential piece of reading in an age of failing political systems and distrustful citizens
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Books interview: Diana Holmes
The professor of French on what led to her interest in ‘middlebrow’ literature, and how ethically serious books can still be page-turners
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University admissions: which system is the fairest?
Standardised test scores, interviews, entrance exams, choosing the top percentage of applicants: all are used in university admissions. Ellie Bothwell asks which methods provide the most honest...
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Sultan of Swing: The Life of David Butler, by Michael Crick
Ivor Gaber enjoys a biography of an Oxford don who became the UK’s first on-screen pollster
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Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt, by C. W. Anderson
‘More objective’ news reporting has not necessarily yielded better politics, finds Suzanne Franks
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What are you reading? – 10 January 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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High Culture: Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World, by Christopher Partridge
Book of the week: it’s human to crave spiritual transcendence, even through psychedelics, writes Andrew Hussey
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Hoax against ‘grievance studies’ may get academic fired
Portland State University says Peter Boghossian’s attack on academic explorations of race and gender failed to get ethics approval
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Leadership intelligence: how to handle a donation controversy
Generous philanthropic giving brings significant benefits to US universities but poses leadership challenges too, says Ángel Cabrera
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Interview with Cristina Banks-Leite
The Imperial College London-based Brazilian ecologist talks about preserving rainforest and an encounter with angry peccaries