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  1. Healthier constitution

    Perhaps the reason US citizens are not knowledgeable about the US Constitution is because, as Alan Ryan notes, “the least well-off 80 per cent of the population exercises no influence on the policies...

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  6. Seymour Laxon, 1963-2013

    A leading researcher on the changes taking place at the polar ice caps has died.Seymour Laxon was born on 22 September 1963 and brought up in Leamington Spa and then North London. His parents were...

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  7. Grant winners

    LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsSciences• Award winner: Jelena Grbic• Institution: University of Manchester• Value: £219,633The homotopy theory of toric spaces• Award winner: Heather Knight•...

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  8. Unconscious track to disciplinary train wreck

    When Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman sees a "train wreck looming" for social psychology, alarm bells should ring among its researchers. It is therefore regrettable to read Stephen Gibson, honorary...

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  9. Hardly in it together

    Well done to ߣߣÊÓƵ for exposing the hypocrisy of university leaders who plead poverty when it comes to staff pay but see nothing wrong with enjoying enormous pay rises themselves ("...

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  10. Baloney detection

    Keir Thorpe tries to explain why administrators may resort to using jargon ("Another world's words", Opinion, 10 January). Jargon is used for two purposes: to aid communication of thought in fields...

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  11. Best form of defence

    Regarding the Council for the Defence of British Universities: what a splendid project!I write as a member of the anthropology department at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of...

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  12. Ends and means

    The recent "end of the world" debates might cause us to ask: what does that phrase actually mean? ("Merry Christmas (world is over)", News, 20/ December.) The ancient Greek term kosmos may help - it...

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  13. Damned if you do

    Miles Hewstone offers a refreshing analysis of the Oxbridge admissions process and calls for proper assessment to determine the admissions criteria that have validity ("Selection mechanism", Opinion...

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  14. Political fabric

    I strongly disagree with T.P. Burlap of Poppleton University, who claims that David Willetts, the universities and science minister, should use graphene to construct his responses (The Poppletonian,...

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  15. THE Scholarly Web

    Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

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