A darker future for our pale blue dot
Our Final Century
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Potted dish lacks Protestant flavour and papist sauce
Beef and Liberty
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No Puritan to the letter
Rappaccini's Daughter
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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 novel whose heroine adores Gothic novels: "No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy...
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Sweet 'n' sauerkraut
The Skeptic
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Thought of 'I' remains a mystery
Consciousness
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Now the genie is out of its bottle...
Beyond all Reason
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Laurie Taylor
Ploumanack BRITTANY Hello Maureen! Yes, it's Julie Samson. Bet you didn't expect to hear from me so soon after degree day! Both mum and dad came in the end and dad said it was one of the proudest...
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Leader: Mickey Mouse is a complex beast
At long last someone has had the courage to identify some "Mickey Mouse" courses. It might have been stretching a point to describe the Conservatives' list of unlikely sounding degrees as research,...
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Leader: A-level standards vary
A week on from results day, arguments are still raging about whether some A levels are easier than others. Although ministers apparently feel honour-bound to insist that they are all equally...
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An East Coast visionary with a bit of an image problem
For Susan Sontag, being a writer gives her permission to interrogate the world, but perversely in her critique of photography she accepts too much and asks too little, argues Mary-Ann Kennedy. It is...
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Goodbye to Easy Street
The once idle summer months are now awash with conferences, research and red tape, says Michael Kelly in the first of a series on how university staff spend their summer 'holidays'. A former...
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Darkness in the Catholic confessional
Sexual scandal has rocked the Roman Catholic church but little attention has been given to the true nature of clergy abuse, writes Natasha Gilbert. John J. Geoghan took up his last post as an active...
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'Kicking around a cancer patient...'
...That's how we are treating the the reefs and seas, says one expert on coral bleaching. Linda Vergnani reports on scientists' alarm about the state of our oceans. Just off Heron Island, Australia,...
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The rich, the poor, the thick and thin
Globetrotting Saskia Sassen tells Huw Richards of globalisation's nuances, while Henry Etzkowitz sketches the entrepreneurial university for Walter Ellis. If a computer program were asked to isolate...