Teaching to the sound of gunfire
Lesley Dawson recalls the struggle to motivate her Palestinian students as they lived with occupation and war. Recent news items from Israel and Palestine and emails from friends in Bethlehem and...
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Director's cut leaves scars
Donald Richie looks at the partnership of a great actor and director. Many film directors have favourite actors, and many actors have favourite directors. One thinks of John Ford and John Wayne,...
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From Fu Man Chu to a grizzly end
Travels, Explorations and Empires 1770-1835 Volumes One to Four
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Eavesdrop on history
Tracking Apollo to the Moon
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about a lifelong Scottish feud: "The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long...
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Learning to love uncertainty
Conversations with a Mathematician
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Cosmic doughnuts followed by superstring fries?
The Bigger Bang - Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
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Fuzzy blobs in sharp focus
The Cambridge Photographic Guide to the Planets - The Compact NASA Atlas of the Solar System
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Laurie Taylor column
I see UUK's in serious trouble. I'm sorry. I stopped reading the comic strips years ago. No, it's not a cartoon character. It's a sort of acronym for Universities UK. What's that? UUK is the new name...
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Leader: Be brave, it's time to resist foody friends
Monday's seminar on food, at the Royal Institution, coming at the end of National Science Week, provides an opportunity both for discussion of the food we eat and the power of global companies to...
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Leader: The US has more robust ways of fighting fund cuts
They are playing hard ball in Wisconsin. The state university system has voted to suspend undergraduate admissions to its 26 campuses in response to a cut of $51 million (£36.2 million) in its state...
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Letter: Cool it
Like many other scientists, I am troubled by the unseemly controversy over claims that transgenic DNA may have spread to traditional varieties of Mexican maize ("Scientists call for reason in GM row...
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Letter: Poor political plays
We sabbatical officers wholeheartedly condemn the president and treasurer of the National Union of Students for sending a letter to all student union presidents urging them not to vote for Labour...
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Letter: Copywrongs
If the working paper on the exploitation of public-sector information is converted into a European Union directive, it spells the end of debate about copyright in higher education research ("Worry at...
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Letter: Post-92 pain
Your coverage of the funding allocations ( THES , March 8) showed little appreciation of the harm they will inflict on many new universities. Removing £17 million of collaboration research funding...