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A defining light in the darkness of the mind
Keith Sutherland engages with a polemical consciousness raiser. A few years ago, the Royal Society organised a short meeting on the "problem of consciousness" at its headquarters in London's Carlton...
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Wonder of day turned into night
Glorious Eclipses
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Noisy bars, cosmic quests
E=mc2 - Einstein's Unfinished Symphony
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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 child's-eye view of Nazism: "Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me...
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When philosophy entangles physics
Quantum Reflections
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Sleptons: coming your way soon
The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume Three
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Truly a sparkling subject
Crystal-Field Engineering of Solid-State Laser Materials
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Idea back in the dock
Paradigms Regained
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The list that sent mathematicians for their pencils
The Hilbert Challenge
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Six pillars of cosmic wisdom
Just Six Numbers
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Laurie Taylor column
"The teaching quality assessment exercise has been rendered all but meaningless by grade inflation and gamesmanship" - THES, March 2 . Let me turn immediately to the only item on today's agenda. I'm...
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Letter: Inflation deflates 'robust' QAA (1)
Your story on the inflation of teaching quality assessment grades is cogent and welcome, but the conclusion is not surprising ("TQA devalued by grade rises", THES, March 9). The trend is best...
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Letter: Inflation deflates 'robust' QAA (2)
The analysis of TQA grades in your story illustrates some of the pitfalls of comparing performance by different institutions especially as grades - being a measure of fitness for purpose - are not...
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Letter: Marking mad
Am I quite mad? I have just completed the external examination of a PhD thesis. I was paid £105 plus second-class fares from London to Swansea. The fee works out at £2.92p per hour - about two-thirds...