The last generation
Men will become infertile by the middle of the next century unless certain man-made chemicals are banned, zoologist Theo Colborn tells Robert Allen. More than 30 years ago science fiction author...
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Atlanta, Georgia on their minds
Normally Paula Radcliffe is to be found racing around campus or Bradgate Park in Loughborough at 7 o'clock each morning. In the evening, daylight permitting, it is the same routine. She runs 80 miles...
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Atlanta, Georgia on their minds
Some 10 per cent of the UK's Olympic contenders are expected to come from higher education. Lucy Hodges discovers how they manage to combine their studies with a gruelling exercise schedule. It is...
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New Instant Science!
Literary intellectuals are so ignorant about science, some scientists are claiming, that it is best to avoid their 'uninstructed' mediation and write directly to the public. Jon Turney is unconvinced...
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Atlanta, Georgia on their minds
Hockey has been Guy Fordham's passion since the age of 12. He began playing the game at Kingston Grammar School and found himself progressing from school team to county level and thence to the...
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The implausible pundits
Why do magazines and newspapers highlight the wrong academic arguments? Paul Krugman has an explanation Late in the summer of 1992 I received the page proofs of an article I had written for a liberal...
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Philosophy in performance
Rolf Hughes reports on a Swedish initiative to rethink the relationship between learning and work. Miroslav Holub was recently asked about his dual identity as a celebrated Czech poet and a leading...
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Push for research cash limit
The movement towards concentrating research funding in a smaller number of university departments will receive fresh impetus next week with the publication of the Harris review of postgraduate...
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Marlboro man makes it
A top United States-based tobacco magnate who has raised millions of dollars for Cambridge University will be awarded an honorary doctorate next month. The revelation comes during a week when the...
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Welsh chiefs fire single quality agency broadside
Welsh higher education heads have fired a warning shot at the planning group for a single quality agency in protest at plans for a "closely directed" quality regime. In their response to the group's...
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Hospitality gurus
Conrad Lashley reveals how a huge profit-making industry is lampooned. It is high time that the press and the academic establishment changed their views about the nature and quality of hospitality...
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The implausible pundits
Why do magazines and newspapers highlight the wrong academic arguments? Patrick O' Brien deplores the limited space newspapers and journals allot to book reviews For a long time I have been...
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Darwin's home wins lottery
The home of Charles Darwin has been saved from its evolutionary decline by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Wellcome Trust and the Natural History Museum, writes Aisling Irwin. Down House in Kent will...
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West leaves NUS
The University of the West of England student union has passed a motion to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students by a clear two-thirds majority in protest at the NUS decision to abandon...
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Abstract number
(Photograph) - Abstract number: A mural to mark the life of local baker's son George Green, 19th-century mathematician and physicist, was unveiled at the University of Nottingham recently. The mural...