A guide to meeting God through nature, brain and the bowel
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Murderous side of maternal instincts
Mother Nature
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When politics begot the modern
Dramatic Moments
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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 bookish poet with a taste for jazz: " There had been no more snow during the night, but because the...
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Who'll be the last to beat the clock?
As the world's top athletes prepare for the Sydney Olympics, Geoff Watts asks if we can continue to set new records or if our species is fast reaching its best. Since 1954, when Roger Bannister ran...
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After fascism, ideological waste disposal,but what now?
Jan-Werner Muller asks if intellectuals in unified Germany are as powerful as their predecessors. Reports about the "crisis" or even the "death" of the intellectual tend to be greatly exaggerated and...
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There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya...
On the centenary of Nietzsche's death, Duncan Large and Richard Smith discuss his place in contemporary debate and ask how a Nietzschean campus might function. The post-structuralist Nietzsche vogue...
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Where lies the true measure of a man?
Jonathan Rutherford argues that a good man is today characterised by the quality of his relationships. In 1992, two academics - Norman Dennis and George Erdos - wrote a tract called Families without...
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Santa Clara
Ecuadorian archaeologists say that a cache of precious objects including more than 11,000 pieces of silver discovered by the Ecuadorian army on the island of Santa Clara in the southern province of...
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University College Scarborough
* University College Scarborough will officially become part of the university of Hull this week following two years of discussions.
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Istanbul
Faculty at Turkey's Dokuz Eylul University have finally had their choice of rector confirmed with the backing of the country's president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer. The higher education authority agreed to...
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Don's Diary
Day One Land in Jamaica, 33 years to the week since my first visit. I am here to write a report on old building society documents; can they sustain a business history? I jostle with the crowds and...
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Hole truth
(Photograph) - Birkbeck College students struck gold - or at least ancient vessels for extracting silver and gold from ore - on an archaeological evaluation of a car park in Bermondsey for the London...
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Lottery rejects castle repairs
Cash and conservationists confound Durham University's plans for historic sites Durham University has accused the Heritage Lottery Fund of "scandalous discrimination" against higher education. Adrian...