Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric
Geoffrey K. Pullum savours a guide to the potential of language but feels more modesty is required
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Anatomy of the Red Brigades: The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists
In his first paragraph, Alessandro Orsini makes an attempt on the world record for definitions unmade and issues avoided. "It is a frightening thought", he pronounces, "that envy, resentment and hate...
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Mathematics of Life: Unlocking the Secrets of Existence
Perhaps it was my XY-chromosomes, but at school I chose Latin over biology. To my naive mind, mathematics, physics, chemistry and foreign (even dead) languages appeared systematic, with simple axioms...
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Making it new all over again
As Post-Modernism's star wanes, Andrew Thacker observes, a diverse, multivalent Modernism is drawing fresh scholarly attention
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Diary
EdinburghSinging the ReformationIn the second half of the 16th century, Thomas Wode, a Catholic monk and later Presbyterian minister, left an important legacy in the form of the St Andrews Psalter....
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The Pick - Curtain Call
Credit: www.sdna.tvLeaps of imagination: SDNA's exploration of surreal dreamingCurtain CallThe Roundhouse, LondonThe Roundhouse, a Victorian engine shed that later served as a gin distillery store,...
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Stop going on holiday!
Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, has once again warned that academics who depart from SLERP ("statutory leave email referral protocol") will face disciplinary action.Targett pointed...
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TV review: Torchwood: Miracle Day
Glimpses of gothicism and a sense of deja vu entertain Will Brooker
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Film review: Cowboys & Aliens
In which High Noon meets high-concept sci-fi carnage - and shoots blanks, says Duncan Wu
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Richard Pike, 1950-2011
Whether it was decrying "Mickey Mouse" degrees or rubbishing the oil industry's estimates on remaining petroleum reserves, Richard Pike was not afraid to speak his mind as chief executive of the...
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US debt deal spares $37bn student aid scheme - for now
But Congress cuts billions from research and graduate loan provisions. Jon Marcus reports
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Appointments
University of SydneyRosina McAlpine-MladenovicAfter more than 20 years in the job, Rosina McAlpine-Mladenovic is still proud to proclaim that she loves teaching. The associate professor of accounting...
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Odds and quads
Gladys Aylward, the English missionary pictured with two of her adopted children (see image, right), became a household name when her heroic exploits escorting 100 orphans to safety through war-torn...
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Research intelligence - 'We all aspire to universal access'
It's just that it will take a long time to get there, journal publishers' spokesman tells Paul Jump
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From where I sit - Say sayonara to globalisation
I have just received the feedback on my first (unsuccessful) funding application to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the main Japanese research funding body. My sorry experience...