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  1. Budding of suburbia

    What induces big-name authors to teach on the growing number of creative writing courses, and is it a subject that can be taught anyway? Harriet Swain meets two new converts to the academic cause,...

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  2. Home tweet home

    What makes some birds spend years perfecting their nests, why do spiders spin webs, and who has the blueprint for the queen bee's palace? Karen Gold gets the answers from the UK's only professor of...

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  3. Le chat sat on the mat

    For those who are multilingual, switching between languages is often unconscious. But, asks Geoff Watts, what triggers the switch and what happens when the controlling mechanism goes wrong? Digging...

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  5. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a prizewinning historian: "However much they might have agreed on the need for accuracy and...

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  13. They're going to leave me behind

    Hurricane Dean is coming, but there's no place in the evacuation strategy for Kevin Fong. Time to stockpile emergency waffles? I am in my cubicle tapping merrily away while a hive of activity carries...

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  14. Ready to furnish tools of thought

    You should not assume that your students know how to think, says Harriet Swain, but you can help them to develop those skills by adopting techniques designed to expand their minds - and yours...

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  15. Room with a (distracting) view

    Name : Hugh Jones Age: 39 Job: Registrar and secretary, Goldsmiths, University of London Salary: Yes What's your practical training/education? BSc (Econ) in Philosophy, LSE; MA Higher and...

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