My eureka moment: Rocks and hard places
Mike Petterson's geological expertise has seen him travel the world, but perhaps his greatest eureka moments have come in Afghanistan, amid his efforts to help rebuild a shattered country
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Book of the week: You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
A cool critique of Web 2.0 needs a pedagogic angle, writes Tara Brabazon
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George Washington's War: In Caricature and Print
Delightful images of America's difficult birth are let down by textual inaccuracies, writes Michael Heale
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The Insurgent Archipelago
Written by a former Gurkha officer and United Nations researcher with many years of conflict-related experience, The Insurgent Archipelago proposes that in the post-Cold War era, the concept of...
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The Canon: Middletown. By Robert and Helen Lynd
Unlike other social scientists of the early 20th century who studied particular "problem" or "alien" groups and cultures, the Lynds consciously set out to make a case study of life in the most...
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What's mine is not yours...
... but that doesn't stop intellectual property theft. Adrian Johns tells Matthew Reisz that piracy is an age-old phenomenon - and that the concept of ownership itself faces a crisisAdrian Johns' new...
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The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - And Why They Should Give It Back
Those born in the postwar era have done well, but their heirs will suffer for it, finds Howard Davies
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Modernism After WagnerBy Juliet Koss, associate professor and chair of art history, Scripps College. University of Minnesota Press, $88.50 and $29.50. ISBN...
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The wealthy could go private: separate loans for wealthy would help UK plc, says think-tank
Students from the wealthiest backgrounds would be barred from taking out state-subsidised student loans under proposals from an influential think-tank.
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When science moves, God must give way 1
Peter Harrison is quoted as damning Richard Dawkins' and his supporters' views as "intellectually vacuous, although their popularity is sociologically interesting" - a phrase that succeeds in being...
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When science moves, God must give way 2
It is hardly news to show that many early scientists had religious convictions. After all, they worked in an almost universally religious culture. And of course, science and religion "are not single...
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Naked truth
I read the story "Stark facts exposed about anti-regulation therapist" (28 January) with some surprise.I have no quarrel with any of the facts. I am aware that the battle over regulation for...
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The 48 per cent solution
It is misleading to suggest that the Higher Education Funding Council for England has bowed to pressure to alleviate CO2 reduction ("Hefce reduces carbon targets after protests", 28 January). It has...
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Suicidal tendencies
Your leader "Is survival all that matters?" (28 January) references international students as a potential source of increased funding for the British higher education sector. But this income stream...
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Self-cert examinations?
Cardiff University recently had to change the way its medical examination results are produced after a mistake led to four students graduating despite failing an exam.The only way to stop this from...