Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Mascots, especially animals, play a big role in the multibillion-dollar business of US university marketing. Is it all just fun, asks David Mould, or have we gone too far in allowing corporatised...
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The family business
Matthew Reisz speaks to scholars with learned bloodlines about the inspirations, insights and rebellions that come with growing up in the very midst of the academy
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The Colours of Our Memories
We all view our lives through tinted spectacles that shape our recollections, finds Helen Fulton
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Completing College: Rethinking Institutional Action
Barbara Stephens finds few clear pointers for the UK in the sobering tale of American dropout rates
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The Human Right to Health
According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the right to health is a human right. But what this entails, and in what sense health can be a right, are still matters of controversy. In his...
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Introduction to Antiphilosophy
At one point in Emir Kusturica's 1995 film Underground, the viewer comes across a vast network of tunnels mysteriously interconnecting the whole of Europe. While above ground the Cold War is getting...
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Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us
Henry Farrell disentangles his Hitchcock from his super-nodes to reveal a pessimistic world view
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Coffee Life in Japan
Focusing on the café as a social space as well as on coffee as an object of production and consumption, this excellent book combines academic rigour with lively descriptions and compelling prose....
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Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline
Most palaeontologists now take it for granted that our subject has significant things to say about the nature of evolutionary change; uniquely, we have the time dimension. Yet the fossil record is...
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Send in the Clones: A Cultural Study of the Tribute Band
Les Gofton reminds us that in popular music as in life, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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Raising the Stakes: E-sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming
Raising the Stakes reports on a cultural phenomenon that few of us are familiar with. While computer games have become part of our mainstream culture, the professional e-sport arena is a place for...
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Charles Dickens and "Boz": The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author
The story of Charles Dickens' development as a storyteller - from his first anonymous unpaid sketch in December 1833 to the publication of Barnaby Rudge in 1841 - is told extremely well in this fine...
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News in brief
United StatesThoroughly revised - really?A US governor has signed legislation intended to lower the costs of textbooks for university students. Jerry Brown, governor of California, announced last...
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European signatories signal start of a new ERA
The European Commission's efforts to create a single market for research across Europe by 2014, a deadline set last year by European Union ministers, have entered a new phase.
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Olympian or legal champion...but why can't I be both?
Flexible university policy allowed hockey star to train and study. Elizabeth Gibney reports