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How one man changed the universe in one year
Einstein 1905
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Torn between the demonic and rational
Karl Pearson
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The potted passion that fired Owd Woodenleg
Josiah Wedgwood
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Polymath maverick with an accent to match
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
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First Impressions
This week's competition to identify a book from its first sentence is from a travel account by a radical journalist and politician: "This morning I set off, in rather a drizzling rain, from...
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Private sector muscles in
Private-sector companies are queueing up to get UK degree-awarding powers, raising the prospect of cut-throat competition that could threaten university courses and jobs. Three providers, including...
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Stem-cell capitalists unnerve scientists
Venture capitalist Sir Chris Evans this week slammed "defensive nay-sayers" in the scientific community as fears grew that his new stem-cell research foundation could put patients at risk by rushing...
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'Issues are the same whether dealing with three-year-olds or 33-year-olds'
Caroline Gipps will bring an eclectic range of experience to the role of vice-chancellor of Wolverhampton Caroline Gipps says she never aspired to a role in university management. "I thought...
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On the move ...
* Bhupinder Sandu , consultant paediatrician and gastroenterologist, has been elected president of the Medical Women's Federation. She is a founding member and past secretary of the British Society...
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Safety row after knife attacks
Unions have attacked Greenwich University for pushing ahead with plans to cut campus security staff despite two robberies by knife-wielding intruders in recent weeks. The university this week...
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Project lifts the hood on male dropouts
The stereotyping of white working-class youths in "hoodies" as feckless thugs creates a self-fulfilling prophecy that means many young men do not enter higher education or, if they do, do not...
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Kent institute sues ex-head for £300K
Kent Institute of Art and Design (Kiad) is pursuing one of its former academics for damages of at least £300,000 after he left to set up a rival architecture school at neighbouring Kent University....
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Next week
High-tech honeytrap How Singapore is systematically luring leading scientists with the promise of freedom, cash and luxury to set up labs in the South-East Asian city-state
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RAE raises UK journal activity
The research assessment exercise has driven up the UK's share of world research citations, a conference on publishing and the RAE sponsored by The Times Higher heard this week. According to higher...