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Nature editor quits ‘Climategate’ review panel
Departure comes as UEA launches second probe into climate science. Zoë Corbyn reports
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First Secretary takes aim at retrenchment ‘hyperbole’
Lord Mandelson criticises v-cs’ attempts to ‘get a retaliation in first’ and hints that Budget will not deliver additional cuts. John Gill reports
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Book of the week: You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
A cool critique of Web 2.0 needs a pedagogic angle, writes Tara Brabazon
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George Washington's War: In Caricature and Print
Delightful images of America's difficult birth are let down by textual inaccuracies, writes Michael Heale
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The Insurgent Archipelago
Written by a former Gurkha officer and United Nations researcher with many years of conflict-related experience, The Insurgent Archipelago proposes that in the post-Cold War era, the concept of...
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The Canon: Middletown. By Robert and Helen Lynd
Unlike other social scientists of the early 20th century who studied particular "problem" or "alien" groups and cultures, the Lynds consciously set out to make a case study of life in the most...
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What's mine is not yours...
... but that doesn't stop intellectual property theft. Adrian Johns tells Matthew Reisz that piracy is an age-old phenomenon - and that the concept of ownership itself faces a crisisAdrian Johns' new...
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The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - And Why They Should Give It Back
Those born in the postwar era have done well, but their heirs will suffer for it, finds Howard Davies
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Modernism After WagnerBy Juliet Koss, associate professor and chair of art history, Scripps College. University of Minnesota Press, $88.50 and $29.50. ISBN...
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The wealthy could go private: separate loans for wealthy would help UK plc, says think-tank
Students from the wealthiest backgrounds would be barred from taking out state-subsidised student loans under proposals from an influential think-tank.
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Aston University - Turning up the heat
Corporate attitudes to climate change in Bangladesh are the subject of a three-year research project led by Aston University. Aston Business School and the University of Dhaka will work on a project...
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Staffordshire University - Into the valley
A university centre may be set up in South Yorkshire's Dearne Valley. Staffordshire University is involved in a £1 million bid to establish the centre, alongside Dearne Valley College and Rotherham...
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London School of Economics - Inequality from cradle to grave
Policy interventions are needed at each stage in people's lives to counter the way economic inequalities are reinforced over their lifespans, a panel has argued. The National Equality Panel, chaired...
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Edinburgh Napier University - Fuelling links with the East
Hong Kong's first biofuel research centre has been established in a partnership between Edinburgh Napier University and a local institution. The centre at City University of Hong Kong will address...