The rational lottery
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The sages of reason
Critical Theory - Critical Theory and the Novel - Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists
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Tin men in pinnies
Intelligent Behaviour in Animals and Robots
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Yesterday's hero and his Maoris
Forerunners of the All Blacks
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Worlds 3 Popper 0
The Mind-Body Problem
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Weights and measures
This week's Times league tables have been changed to meet some universities's concerns over the picture they paint of the sector. In an introduction to the data used to compile the tables Tom Cannon...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF WALES COLLEGE OF CARDIFF Research grants Dr M. Woodhouse, Pounds 195,800 from the Medical Research Council (visual and cognitive development in infants and young children with Down's...
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Events
GERMAN RELATIONS Postwar British cartoons depicting Germany are being exhibited at the University of Wales, Cardiff Student Union Building, Park Place, until May 31. The 75 cartoons concentrate on...
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Chairs
BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY Kevin McGuinness, former legal practitioner in Ontario, has been appointed to a sponsored chair in business law. DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY Personal chairs have been awarded to...
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Awards
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE Alan Newell, deputy principal and head of the Micro Centre, has been awarded the Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize from the Foundation for Science and Technology.
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Appointments
HEFCE Barbara Stephens, director of operations, West Cumbria Development Agency, has been appointed to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for...
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Power plays and sister acts
David Walker talks to Partha Dasgupta (right), the Cambridge economist who has focused on the third world's economic dynamos: women. Squatting; cooking; suckling; spinning; water-carrying; herding;...
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Neo-Darwinism has never claimed to be a theory of everything
Bad weather, a defeat of Manchester United and Mondays are all blamed on the government of the day. Brian Goodwin seems to have elected what he calls "Neo-Darwinism" to government status in the...
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Neo-Darwinism has failed as an evolutionary theory
Darwinism is a theory of evolution based upon inherited variations in organisms and natural selection of fitter variants to produce species adapted to their habitats. Twentieth-century biology added...
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Adrift in a qualifications sea
Ros Ollin argues for a regulatory anchor to keep NVQs steady. The report, Learning to Succeed after Sixteen, by the National Commission on Education reiterates the need for schools, colleges and...