When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity
State security blankets fail to make us safe and do many of us harm, argues Irma van der Ploeg
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The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements
Radicalism characteristically runs in cycles, and after the post-1991 quiescence, the pursuit of democracy has re-emerged in the Arab Spring, in Tibet, Rangoon and Moscow, in the Occupy Wall Street...
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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Halfway through reading this monograph I instinctively did what Leah Price says people do with books: I used it as a prop to fend off the unwanted overtures of a friendly tourist on a train. That is...
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THE 100 Under 50: All hail the new breed
Phil Baty celebrates the universities that have reached the top of the global academy in decades, not centuries
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THE 100 Under 50: Speed from a standing start
Free from tradition and baggage, a wave of upstarts are challenging their elders. Phil Baty investigates
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THE 100 Under 50: From zero to hero
Achieving world-class status is a marathon, not a sprint, but notes Jamil Salmi, rapid progress can be made with the right regimen - particularly when starting from scratch
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THE 100 Under 50: Youth ventures
Phil Baty explains how the 100 Under 50 ranking was created and emphasises the dynamism of the table
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THE 100 Under 50: methodology
The 100 Under 50 table is built on the criteria used for the World University Rankings, but with a twist
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THE 100 Under 50: Power flowers
The 1960s universities rose to prominence on the back of savvy leadership and a firm commitment to research, argues Paul Wellings
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THE 100 Under 50: This is just the start
Tony Chan discusses the key factors behind HKUST's rapid rise, and adds: you ain't seen nothing yet
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THE 100 Under 50: International bright young thing
Confidence is the hallmark of Warwick, a habitual innovator that has made a global splash, says Nigel Thrift
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THE 100 Under 50: Acelerando!
Marcelo Knobel and Renato H.L. Pedrosa discuss Unicamp's past and what the future has in store
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THE 100 Under 50: Prefabs sprout so distinctively
The University of York has always been unafraid to go its own way, Laurie Taylor recalls
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'Let's give every schoolboy lines for smoking cannabis'
David Nutt, the drugs 'scientist who got sacked', tells Matthew Reisz that a less punitive approach is needed
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