Personal becomes political in this hall of mirrors
The V&A’s reflective new exhibition of Middle Eastern photography brings a heterogeneous region into focus, says Shahidha Bari
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Hard line pays dividends (but not hard cash)
Grant awards success rates rise but income falls for some research-intensives. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Is RCUK's open-access cash a 'reckless' road to ruin?
Senior scientists critical of allocation rules and assumptions behind £100m grant for ‘gold’ fees, writes Paul Jump
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Leader: The self-censor may not hold
New-found restraint over research council applications should be praised but will it survive further funding cuts?
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The Particle at the End of the Universe: The Hunt for the Higgs and the Discovery of a New World
From postulation to discovery: Frank Close weighs up an accessible account of the Higgs boson
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Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccuping, and Beyond
It may be better in than out, but as social animals we can’t help ourselves, Tristan Bekinschtein finds
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After Art
We live “under the conditions of image saturation”, writes Yale University art historian David Joselit, who argues, after Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory, that images, “through the capacity for...
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Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale
Gradually, much of the scaffolding of the influential, but historically inaccurate, depiction of British opinion during the First World War, reflected in countless novels as well as older historical...
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Making the European Monetary Union
Kathleen McNamara on the technocracy that created the EMU - and its current malaise
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Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England: Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture
Last year was the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, with extravagant claims made about it being “the most important book written in the English language”. Such a...
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The Rise of China vs the Logic of Strategy
The rise of China has provoked such shock and awe that predictions of the time when the People’s Republic will dominate the world have become commonplace. Sustained strong economic growth, especially...
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From Where I Sit - No Act of philistinism
A recent issue of Time magazine was devoted to "Reinventing College". Several full-page advertisements celebrated "Milestones in the History of US Higher Education". Partially funded by the Bill and...
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15 November 2012
V-c spotting - The top decks may be stacked in favour of white, middle-class men, but not all follow suit