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  2. The week in higher education

    Anyone familiar with the views of Edzard Ernst may be surprised to learn that he was on the board of the journal Homeopathy. But this cognitive dissonance was ended last week when the journal sacked...

  4. Situation vacant

    There are concerns that leading England’s funding council is a diminished job after suggestions that Sir Alan Langlands may be leaving the role because of its shrinking importance under the new fees...

  5. Odds and quads

    These are just two of the plant samples, now held by the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University in Sweden, that Carl Peter Thunberg brought back from his pioneering expedition to Japan in 1775.

  6. Campus round-up

    Shrinking resourceAbout half of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grassland has been lost in a decade, university research suggests. According to scientists at the University of East Anglia, the grassland...

  7. Sex and Arab sensibility

    Shahidha Bari considers an exploration of desire and denial amid Egypt’s shifting sands

  9. American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

    In May 1918, in Brooks County, Georgia, Hayes Turner, a black farm labourer, was lynched by a white mob seeking vengeance for the death of Hampton Smith, a white farmer and racist. The fact that...

  11. Think of the children

    Deborah Bowman praises a compassionate and informed look at paediatric ethics

  13. Image Warfare in the War on Terror by Nathan Roger

    This new century has seen an explosion in communication technologies among consumers worldwide. But according to Nathan Roger, the true import of this revolution has yet to be fully understood by...

  14. UK R&D spending: Less on swords, more on ploughshares

    Spending on defence research and development in the UK has declined by 57 per cent since 1989, data from the Office for National Statistics show.Figures in the ONS statistical bulletin UK Gross...