THE podcast: 25 June - 1 July 2015 issue review
This week's issue discussed by the Times Higher Education team
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Still Lives: Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master, by Maria H. Loh
Pigment and poison mix in a study of Renaissance artists’ nascent fame, says Tracey Warr
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Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code, by Matthew Cobb
Jon Turney lauds a fresh telling of a towering achievement of 20th-century science
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A Feast for the Eyes: Art, Performance, and the Late Medieval Banquet, by Christina Normore
Helen Fulton relishes a richly researched study of elaborate meals full of glamour and excess
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The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of Master Forgers, by Noah Charney
Faking it is fun, but there’s no such thing as a victimless crime, writes Richard Howells
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Desire in the Canterbury Tales, by Elizabeth Scala
The medieval weather forecast is climatically wrong, argues Peter J. Smith
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The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes, by Brian Dillon
As war raged, health and safety were abandoned – with devastating results, writes Stephen Halliday
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The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects, by Deborah Lutz
Personal items belonging to the literary sisters illuminate their wild genius, says Shahidha Bari
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What are you reading? - 25 June 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The UCU at the microlevel
What are the key issues local union branches are dealing with, and how do they manage relationships with institutions in what many activists argue is an increasingly confrontational environment?
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Peer review: not as old as you might think
Peer review is often thought of as ancient and unchanging, but it is neither – and it shouldn’t be treated as a sacred cow, argues Aileen Fyfe
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World in brief – 25 June 2015
Higher education news from around the globe
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Campus close-up: ‘Authoritative voice’ set to project on the world stage
UCL-led centre aims to clarify complexity – and dispel a few myths, too
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Sir Gordon Hobday, 1916-2015
A leading scientist and industrialist who served as the fourth chancellor of the University of Nottingham has died
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Q&A with Alun Evans
We speak to the British Academy’s chief executive elect