Grant winners – 23 March 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection, by Evelleen Richards
Book of the week: Simon Underdown enjoys a stunning view of Darwin at work on his less celebrated classic
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Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History and Memory, by Enzo Traverso
A wide-ranging study is triumphant in plumbing the depths of socialist despair, says Fred Inglis
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Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching, by Adam Alter
Is a study of addiction everything that we need it to be in a post-truth, alternative facts era? asks Tara Brabazon
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New and noteworthy – 23 March 2017
Why you need a ‘No’ hat, rethinking the economic wisdom of ‘necessary luxuries’, restoring financial power to the people, and lessons learned from teaching prisoners to read
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President turns MIT’s research might to study of how people learn
‘If we don’t know how we learn, how on earth do we know how to teach?’ says L. Rafael Reif, who tells Ellie Bothwell how the research giant is working to improve teaching practice
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How researchers rose to the challenge of Ebola
Conducting clinical trials during an epidemic for the first time, researchers fast-tracked the creation of a vaccine for Ebola, but not before 11,000 people had died
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Stuck in the middle
How do you solve a problem like REF selection? Research-active status may be defined by formal or informal means, but is there a realistic alternative?
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Laurie Taylor – 23 March 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Don't expect OfS leaders to fight market
Higher education policy in the UK has long since passed the point at which even the estimable Laurie Taylor struggles to satirise it. If any further proof were needed, it can be found in the comment...
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A burden shared
In the news story “Kept down by menial tasks? Black scholars and the ‘neoplantation’” (16 March), Lamar Johnson, an assistant professor in Michigan State University’s department of English, argues...
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US terms of aid
The article “Income-contingent loans ‘could solve US student debt crisis’” (14 March, www.timeshighereducation.com) contains a significant error. US federal education loans, such as the Stafford Loan...
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Friday on my mind
Despite acknowledging the importance of contradictory examples in the study of the humanities, James Nikopoulos (Opinion, 9 March) remarks on a society’s skill sets relevant to the “passions of their...