The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi
Gareth Dale is intrigued by an account of small-town life in the secret police
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Soap, Science, and Flat-Screen TVs: A History of Liquid Crystals
David Dunmur and Tim Sluckin provide an inside view of the science of the liquid crystals that are responsible for the displays that have not only become our windows into the digital world, but have...
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Coleridge's Play of Mind
Playfulness and Samuel Taylor Coleridge? The two are not generally associated. After all, Thomas Carlyle compared Coleridge with "a hundred horse-power engine stuck in the mud and with the boiler...
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Pick-and-mix Piano Man
Malcolm Gillies analyses the rapid rise of James Rhodes, and asks how much is hype and how much is talent
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Diary
NottinghamRoman Sexuality: Images, Myths and MeaningsWhat are we to make of the range of sexual images to be found in Roman art and archaeology? This exhibition at the Weston Gallery - part of the...
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The Pick - The off-kilter eye of the artist
Gabriel OrozcoTate Britain, London, until 25 AprilWhen Gabriel Orozco was a child, he thought that squashing a car might make it more aerodynamic and fast-moving. In 1993, he got a chance to put his...
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Carrots and parsnips: shock new evidence
In what is being described as "a dramatic breakthrough", a research team led by our Deputy Head of Neuroscience, Dr E.G. Pataglig, has established that there is no measurable cognitive difference...
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Morris L. Cohen, 1927-2010
A lawyer turned academic librarian with "a great sense of puckish humour", Morris L. Cohen directed some of the US' most prestigious law libraries during his career.Born in New York on 2 November 19...
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TV review: Points of view
Gary Day is startled by an art critic's approach to the work, life and loves of John Constable
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Film review: Barney's Version
Mordecai Richler is well served by a wry and affecting adaptation of his final novel, Duncan Wu says
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Research intelligence - More concentration needed
David Colquhoun tells Paul Jump that the only way to maximise UK potential is to restrict research to an elite circle
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Wrong kind of mice force research retraction
Lab laments after order mix-up leaves it no choice but to retract journal paper. Paul Jump writes
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From where I sit - National cuts call for joint action
There is no doubt that the funding cuts that are about to hit the UK higher education sector are deep and worrying. But that sector is not alone in Europe in facing a bleaker financial future.In the...
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The Week in Higher Education
Student protesters should not expect police officers who oversee their "silly demonstrations" to contribute through taxes for "bone-idle, bourgeois softies to stay in bed all day playing video games...