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  1. Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 5

    Your description of the relationship between institutional size and performance in the article on RAE funding was overly simplistic in its interpretation of the analyses. A statistical association...

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  2. Oxford's happy history

    We would like to thank Felipe Fernandez-Armesto for giving a fascinating talk to the Oxford University History Society. However, having hosted a number of successful speaker events this term, we were...

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  3. Doctor how

    I was interested to read the feature on professional doctorates ("Practical knowledge", 26 February). What it perhaps misses is that the range of practices across the doctoral spectrum are much wider...

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  4. Culture change bears fruit

    The isolated quotes in your feature "No apples for teachers" (19 February) are misleading. My position as an educator at the University of Manchester needs clarification and, more importantly, I made...

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  5. No chance of a 2D deity

    Few would disagree with Simon Blackburn's view that David Hume was a gifted writer, but the implied notion that he provided the last word on God's existence, anthropology or miracles is somewhat...

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  6. You don't have to be fixated to work here...

    The academy has long been a haven for obsessives, but now its emphasis on teamwork would ill suit socially inept geniuses such as Paul Dirac, writes Matthew Reisz

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  7. Stone-Age thinking

    Evolutionary psychology applies the tenets of Darwinism to human thought and action, with major implications for public policy. But critics say it presents untestable, headline-grabbing myths as fact...

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  8. 12 March 2009

    Odd ones out - Are super-bright obsessive thinkers no longer welcome in the academy?

  15. Published this week

    ? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- The Cambridge Companion to DarwinEdited by Jonathan Hodge, senior lecturer in the history and philosophy of science, and Gregory Radick, senior lecturer in...

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