World Reputation Rankings 2012 methodology
Informed opinion at the heart of the matter Thousands worldwide have responded to our Academic Reputation Survey, whose rigorous methodology addresses common concerns and shows what scholars really...
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World University Rankings 2011-12 methodology
Phil Baty describes the methodological refinements that have made the 2011-12 rankings even more accurate and comprehensive No project that seeks to reduce the amazing variety of university activity...
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Third-culture club
The 'sciart' movement is bridging the gulf between the 'two cultures' that C.P. Snow lamented more than 50 years ago. Matthew Reisz reports from the lab of the imagination, where anything can happen
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Too Big to Know
Martin De Saulles sees how new ways to share online can lead to quicker knowledge creation
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Thinking the Twentieth Century: Intellectuals and Politics in the Twentieth Century
This book has an unusual structure. It grew from conversations recorded by Tony Judt (1948-2010) with a younger historian, Timothy Snyder, of Yale University. Although they present their specialisms...
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Sex, Gender and the Conservative Party: From Iron Lady to Kitten Heels
The altered gender balance among Conservative MPs after the 2010 general election was noticeable. Yet, despite a well-publicised pledge by David Cameron to increase the number of female and ethnic-...
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
An exposition on successful economies impresses Howard Davies, but may not thrill the REF panels
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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
California in the 1970s: LSD, seances...quantum mechanics? Chris Sachrajda takes a strange trip
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Bush's Wars
While the Obama administration struggles to disentangle itself from Iraq and Afghanistan, nearly a decade after George W. Bush's absurd "mission accomplished" boast of May 2003, it is useful to have...
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Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
As witness recent squawks on Fox News about the "communist" leanings of the latest Muppets movie, the idea of Hollywood as a hotbed of leftist subversion dies hard. Steven Ross aims to set the record...
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Simulacra and simulation to make dreaming spires reality
Inside a Hackney sixth form, a mini Oxford gives pupils an appetite and an aspiration for higher study. Joseph Lee writes
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China continues pouring cash into basic science
The Chinese government's budget for basic research is set to increase by more than a quarter this year.
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News in brief
United StatesHappiness is a concealed gunStudents and staff at a US university will be allowed to carry guns on to campus thanks to a Supreme Court ruling. The decision concerning the University of...
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Grant winners
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsBasic sciences• Award winner: Tim Rakow• Institution: University of Essex• Value: £124,184Broadening the applications for experience-based choice• Award winner...
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Cetls' impact assessed: the sector hardly felt a thing
Hefce-backed teaching programme failed to raise standards significantly. Jack Grove writes