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  1. Appointments

    University of HuddersfieldSusan KilcoyneA scientist who enjoys "physics on the edge" has been appointed professor of biomaterials at the University of Huddersfield. Susan Kilcoyne, formerly associate...

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  2. Adrift from memory bliss

    Kevin Fong is forced to come to terms with electronic isolation

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  3. Hearts & minds

    What makes us human? In major new books, an economist, a philosopher, an evolutionary biologist and two psychologists offer compelling - and very different - answers. Matthew Reisz writes

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  4. The sin of omission was Boston's, not ours

    Your readers will emerge much better informed about the Boston College-Belfast Project case having read Peter Geoghegan's informed piece rather than John Brewer's speculative letter on the subject (...

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  5. Inimical ballot (1 of 2)

    In June last year, Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, wrote in the New Statesman that "the prospect of 800,000 teachers in schools, colleges and universities being on...

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  6. Inimical ballot (2 of 2)

    Jane Hardy claims to write in a personal capacity ("Pension protection", Letters, 26 January), yet she is standing at the forthcoming UCU national executive committee elections as a member of the...

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  7. Art not academe, again

    The touchingly recurrent motif of a university core executive afflicted by incipient narcolepsy informs Peter Hill's assessment of the divergent purposes of the art school and the university ("The...

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  8. Lean pickings

    "Lean" approaches to cost reduction work best when an organisation has clear objectives with clear ideas on how specific activities contribute (or fail to contribute) to achieving them ("In hungry...

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  9. Personal comments

    It was the students who pushed for anonymous marking at the University of East Anglia, brought in, as I understand it, due to the "fairness" argument ("Attributive justice", 26 January). However, the...

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  10. For He, just add electrons

    Has Peter B. Baker not heard of alpha particles ("Compound the error", Letters, 26 January)? These are helium nuclei. Just add electrons. No need for chemistry, alchemy or nuclear fusion: radioactive...

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  11. Creep show

    Am I alone in my profound discomfort regarding middle-aged men employing substantially younger women in advisory roles, whose main job seems to be to tell them how inspirational and visionary they...

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  13. Film review: A Dangerous Method

    The master of 'body horror' turns to the monsters of the mind in an exploration of psychoanalysis. Davina Quinlivan investigates

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  15. David Barron, 1935-2012

    David Barron was one of the "founding fathers" of computer science and was known as a bon viveur by his friends and colleagues.Professor Barron was born on 9 January 1935 and studied mathematics at...

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