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  2. Do you believe in 'zombies'?

    How could conscious experiences affect brains? The simple answer is that they could not and do not. Yet we feel as though they do. This clash between the way things seem and the way they rationally...

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  3. Thick on plot, but a little thin on theory

    Multiple-choice question. Is this book: (a) "witty and ingenious"; (b) "ecstatically playful"; (c) too clever by half? Going for the third option puts me firmly into the philistine camp, opposed to...

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  6. Don't ignore unhappy students

    Assessing student performance in examinations based on the content of lectures should be straightforward, but if universities adjust marks when things go wrong, a lack of transparency can leave...

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  7. Testing times 1

    Rawaa ("Animal tests 'upsetting but important'", March 19) is a young scientist who believes her experiments on rats are relevant to humans. As she progresses, however, she will discover that an...

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  8. Testing times 2

    Using a photograph of an attractive female undergraduate of African origin to expound the importance of animal testing is more of an infomercial than real news. Rawaa participates in a video made by...

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  9. Fraught fortnight?

    Surely two weeks is long enough to pen two pages ("Scientists given 2 weeks to plan 10-year vision", March 19)? Any scientist who has not been thinking about this for ages, and cannot write it in two...

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  10. Back to Poppleton! 1

    Laurie Taylor's view of York University sociology department is misleading ("Farewell to 'cuddly' ethos of yesteryear", March 19). Taylor implies that younger staff are on fixed-term contracts and...

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  11. Back to Poppleton! 2

    Laurie Taylor is right: things have moved on since he took his "lump sum" in 1995. We work under research and teaching pressures largely absent in previous generations and his account of our...

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  12. Back to Poppleton! 3

    If all of York University's sociologists shared Laurie Taylor's elitist views of social policy in the 1970s and 1980s, no wonder there was a schism in his department. Social policy research is...

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  13. Back to Poppleton! 4

    I was disappointed to find Laurie Taylor making fun of feminist research by singling out my presentation for the British Sociological Association conference "Wax, pluck or thread: Normalising hair...

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  14. Vocation, vocation 1

    Michael Driscoll, Middlesex University vice-chancellor, says the only way the government will get people to take foundation degrees will be to restrict places on full-time degree courses ("Students...

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  15. Vocation, vocation 2

    Regardless of government funding, the decision to spend a gap-year doing voluntary work reaps rewards in the long term ("Cash for gap-year volunteers", March 19). Such students gain in maturity and...

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