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CambridgeAeneas in HellAn opera devised by British librettist and music critic Paul Griffiths will receive its world stage premiere at Anglia Ruskin University on 24 May and will run until 28 May (...
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The Pick - Fissure
FissureYorkshire DalesLouise Ann Wilson, formerly part of the creative team wilson+wilson, creates intense site-specific performances. Earlier examples of her work have taken small audiences through...
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We're on our way!
"We're hoping to send at least a couple of coachloads."That was the enthusiastic response of Gerald Thudd, our Head of Research Impact, to the news that the London School of Economics will be hosting...
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No bloom for Chopin
Rather late in the day, I have caught up with Tim Birkhead's charming piece on bullfinches ("Tweet sensations", 21 April).The German forestry workers of the 1800s would have been familiar (as are...
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A right royal obscenity
Congratulations to Felipe Fernández-Armesto ("Insane in the membrane", 12 May) for capturing perfectly the insanity and the obscenity that was the royal wedding.Howard Moss, Swansea
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TV review: Wonderland: The Trouble with Love and Sex
Gary Day is touched by an animated exploration of Relate's work with troubled or warring couples
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Film review: Win Win
A high-calibre cast overcome a contrived storyline about a fresh start in middle age, says Duncan Wu
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Peter Young, 1923-2011
Very tall, with a shock of white hair, Peter Young was a "cheerful, humorous and knowledgeable" engineering professor who also enjoyed choral singing.Born in Boston, Lincolnshire on 23 November 1923...
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Appointments
St Mary's University CollegeJanine Griffiths-BakerA legal scholar who has "always had a sense of justice" has been named the new deputy principal at St Mary's University College, Twickenham. Janine...
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Odds and quads
The linear écraseur chain - developed in Paris in 1850 for amputating limbs and tumours, and for castration - works by the gradual tightening of the chain loop, crushing tissue without causing...
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Refute it thus
Citation indices are poor and distorting proxies for research quality - they should get the boot, argues Thomas Docherty
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Research intelligence - Rocks and a hard place
AHRC head feels heat of defending funding plans to the academy, reports Paul Jump
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From where I sit - Money is the least of their worries
Saudi Arabia has big plans for higher education. The kingdom is trying to build an academic system that recognises excellence at all levels, from research universities to vocational institutions....
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Campus round-up
University of ManchesterShared remediesTwo pharmaceutical companies have teamed up with a university for collaborative research into inflammatory diseases. The University of Manchester,...