Letter: Figure fetishes
Howard Allen implies that if teaching is effective, distributions of grades should be heavily skewed towards firsts and upper seconds (Teaching, THES, February 9). For too long, fetishes have been...
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Letter: Janet and adverts
Following Charles Crook's stimulating article ("Spare us logo land", THES, February 2) readers may be interested to know that the Joint Information Systems Committee ( http:///www.jisc.ac.uk/ ) is...
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Letter: Blooming marvellous
I note that the Academie Francaise has just elected its third woman member since the male monopoly was broken 20 years ago, (Worldwatch, THES, February 16). Given that members are traditionally...
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Letter: Give us a bit of credit
G. R. Evans describes the Schneider-Ross report on Cambridge's equality audit as damning (Letters, THES, February 2). Yes, the report pulls no punches in identifying weaknesses and issues that need...
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Letter: God vs goddess
So, the very serious Niall Ferguson laments a society in which "people pay more attention to the words of Nigella Lawson than to those of the archbishop of Canterbury" ("Want truth? Just follow the...
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Leader: Taylor options put v-cs on spot over tuition fees
Universities need more money. The Taylor report, published today by Universities UK, sets out figures showing the sector is underfunded by many hundreds of millions of pounds a year. And it talks...
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Having a gas with the mechanics of fluids
Lattice Gas Hydrodynamics
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How hard is hard?
Microhardness of Polymers
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Why opossums should rule and other fantasies
Archaeology and Language
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Are fluorescent monkeys keys to glowing health?
The Harvard University geneticist Richard Lewontin's book consists of review essays originally published in the New York Review of Books between 1981 and 1993, with epilogues to bring them up to date...
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Creating crystal phenomena
Liquid Crystals
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From experience - what you don't have can'tleak
Accident... A Life Preventing Them in Industry
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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 Romantic writer who said her novel was as "unromantic as a Monday morning": " Of late years, an...
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When you arrive at Jupiter, take a left
A Tribble's Guide to Space
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Dream of a world where people come before power
In this month's Oxford Amnesty Lectures, Peter Singer argues for a United Nations consisting only of countries dedicated to democracy and preservation of human rights. For much of the past century it...