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Growing distrust of medical histories funded by industry could ultimately help to improve scholarship and encourage a more healthy public critique, argues David Cantor. Recently I had a somewhat...
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Rock idol with the power to bewitch
The texts on the Rosetta Stone have long been deciphered, so why does it still hold such a fascination for both scholars and the public? wonders Karen Gold. Surely only a geeky schoolboy would have...
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Content that fires creative tensions
In the first part of a new series on working relationships between researchers, Huw Richards talks to the authors of a seminal media studies text about their teamwork. Power without Responsibility by...
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Ten students walk into a pub...
...is this a joke? asks Michael North as he sits through gratuitous obscenities and some charming wit in a performance that's part of a stand-up comedy course. The atmosphere in the Laughing Horse...
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V-cs' 7.9% pay rise is twice that of staff's
Survey shows salaries of university heads rose by an average of £12,000 in one year, Anthea Lipsett writes.The salaries of university chiefs rose by more than twice that of academic staff in 2005-06...
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Today's news
University chiefs’ salaries rise faster than lecturers’ The salaries of university vice-chancellors rose at more than double the rate of lecturers last year. Forty-three now earn more than the Prime...
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Latest research news
Women shed unwanted hair through mint tea Hairy women could shed their unwanted growth by drinking mint tea, according to a study published. They are hirsute because they have abnormally high levels...
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Today's news
Brain cells clue to genius of Einstein Scientists may be a step closer to understanding one of the most brilliant minds ever to grace the field, that of Albert Einstein, the man who unravelled the...
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Today's news
Public concern over university privatisation Increased privatisation in UK universities would lead to falling standards and harm Britain's international reputation, according to a new poll released...
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Research Fellowship
Deadline: 30/06/2007
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Science and Innovation Awards - Call for Outline Proposals
Deadline: 10/04/2007
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Today's news
Anger as Cambridge cuts three languages The University of Cambridge is under fire over proposals to reduce teaching of Portuguese, Hindi and Sanskrit. Portuguese is to be cut back to a single paper “...
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A power rising on its own terms
China Modernizes
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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 work that surveys the creation of a new political system in a new country: "On pleasant evenings in...
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Titans who bestowed gift of light
Enlightenment Contested