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Notes and LettersLondonHow and what does music manage to communicate - and how far can the process be described in words? Does contemporary physics confirm ancient ideas about "the music of the...
Notes and LettersLondonHow and what does music manage to communicate - and how far can the process be described in words? Does contemporary physics confirm ancient ideas about "the music of the...

In a "shock announcement", our Deputy Director of Logo Development, Roger Placement, has confirmed that Poppleton will abandon its current logo.At a hastily convened press conference in the atrium of...
The US is heavyweight champ, but the UK punches far above its weight in the world. So why isn't the government in its corner?

Separating research wheat from chaff is a science in itself, editor of leading journal tells Paul Jump
North American administrators call high rates of plagiarism 'tip of the iceberg'. Jon Marcus reports
• A lecturer convicted of assaulting a police officer has been allowed to keep his job at the University of Manchester. Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet, lecturer in terrorism and political violence,...
"Exit stage left pursued by HR": is this an appropriate final direction for this retiring professor? In order to depart from the University of Western ߣߣÊÓÆµ, I had to download, fill in and...
University of TorontoAndrew StarkAn academic specialising in the philosophy of intellectual property law has become a Fulbright scholar. Andrew Stark, professor of strategic management and professor...

Alex Danchev applauds an artist whose depiction of events that others shy from aims to make the 'inexplicable more explicable'
Despite exhortations to academics to collaborate, jointly authored research still draws some suspicion. Co-authors Janet Beer and Avril Horner are adamant that, with the right chemistry, such efforts...

A year after the Browne Report's publication, Fred Inglis excoriates the application of a bankrupt neoliberal ideology to the academy, and calls for scholars to rise up and free the truth from the...
I doubt that I am the only reader who noted a particularly cruel juxtaposition in the 29 September issue of ߣߣÊÓÆµ. On the one hand was John Martin's well-argued critique of the lack...
The argument that William Shakespeare was not the prime author of the plays attributed to him has absolutely no basis in historical fact. No documents from the period provide any evidence of an...
I once read a (possibly apocryphal) story that a scholar who believed that Sir Francis Bacon had written the works of Shakespeare once tried to convince the critic Cyril Connolly that the son of a...
Having spent 10 days in jail for unfurling a banner, Edd Bauer, vice-president for education at the University of Birmingham Guild of Students, has been suspended from his post as a democratically...