What are you reading? – 13 October 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour, by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss and J. Richard Gott
Celestial bodies are stripped of mystery in a lively guide that sounds a warning, says Marcus Chown
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, by Yuval Noah Harari
Simon Underdown on a historian contemplating future challenges arising from modern lifestyles and technology
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Existentialism and Excess: The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre, by Gary Cox
Claims for genius require more than repeated assertion to make the case, says Martin Cohen
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Living by Numbers: In Defence of Quantity, by Steven Connor
This provocative argument for the importance of number in the humanities is full of wit and insight, says Tony Mann
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National University of Singapore’s use of skills data sparks debate
But academics argue against narrow teaching focus and warn that technical skills have a ‘half-life’
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Books interview: Catherine Merridale
The author of Lenin on the Train reminisces about Alain-Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes, and talks about travel books as histories and the ‘surreal time and place’ of revolutionary Russia
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The week in higher education – 13 October 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Laurie Taylor – 13 October 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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A satisfyingly simple solution
With four months having passed since the publication in Times Higher Education of a mock league table of the teaching excellence framework (“A new perspective”, Features, 23 June), one could make a...
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Copy cat nap
The moggy who fell asleep at Malaysia’s International Islamic University because “it appeared to be mimicking behaviour displayed by students” is an unlikely case of reverse causality (“The week in...
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Academic form
It is reported that, from 2017, students in England will be offered a choice of “gold, silver and bronze” universities under the teaching excellence framework (“England’s universities to have medal-...
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What's the issue?
It is a mistake to think that Jordan Peterson’s YouTube lectures criticising the University of Toronto’s policy on “political correctness” are about gender politics (“Canadian professor slams...