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Wider participation may reinforce social exclusion The government's widening participation policies may have the unintended consequence of reinforcing social exclusion, according to research...
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What do we make of our children?
Can IQ be linked to parenting? Harriet Swain asks Peter Hobson about some unsettling ideas in his latest book. Peter Hobson is feeling self-conscious. You can tell. He flaps his arms around more when...
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In the game of seeking out sponsors, institutions may be gambling their integrity
As US universities depend ever more on corporate largesse to fill their coffers, Stephen Phillips looks at the impact on funding of the Enron scandal. Enron professor of economics Mark Wohar shuns...
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Inspiration, power, simplicity - but above all, beauty
Four scientists select a favourite equation and explain its appeal: • E=mc² Peter Galison, Harvard University In May 1905, while working as a Swiss patent officer, the 26-year-old Albert Einstein...
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Through perfect balance we find universal beauty
Although scientific equations are not easily accessible, like painting and poetry, they possess a unique aesthetic value, argues Graham Farmelo. Westminster Abbey is not the sort of place you would...
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A city founded on a C-list Trojan's back
Troy Between Greece and Rome
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Myth-making behind the scholar of mythology
The Invention of Jane Harrison
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Taking Klee's line for a walk
Keith Hartley admires a painter who made reality out of the abstract. In the postwar period Paul Klee had an enormous influence on British art and, in particular, on teaching in British art schools....
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A body of work for everybody
The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine
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Ethical splits in manipulating life
The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an English novel by a man who once commanded a rocket ship: "He was struggling in every direction, he...
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Magnetism that is sure to get your pulse racing
Spin Dynamics
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Laurie Taylor Column
Dear Mr/Ms/Doctor/Professor. Thank you for returning your application form for the Media and Cultural Studies Conference to be held at the University of Poppleton from March 25-. A single room (R2365...
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Leader: Education will suffer if just treated as a service
British universities and staff are understandably concerned at the potential opening of the home market to foreign competition - possibly at the British taxpayer's expense - implicit in the General...