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EPSRC policy programme'Don't rush decision,' IoP pleadsThe deadline set by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for final decisions on its "shaping capabilities" programme is too...
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Breaking the news mould
Journalism with academic analysis can create material with impact - but will the REF consider it? asks John Mair
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Gaddafi affair shows we must be clear and robust about ethics
The LSE made mistakes in its links with Libya, as Lord Woolf found. Judith Rees, its director, says it will learn from those failings
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Losing It: In Which an Aging Professor Laments his Shrinking Brain...
Laurie Taylor revels in the shock of recognition as a scholar laments the dying of the light
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The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of: The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum Physics and How They Shook the Scientific World
Experts will relish these paradigm-shifting concepts but lay readers may struggle, warns Graham Farmelo
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Bankside: London's Original District of Sin
I should probably keep this quiet - I know how huge academic salaries are and that you'll snap up the London house I've always had my eye on. One of the three riverside terraced houses on Cardinal's...
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Eco-Republic: Ancient Thinking for a Green Age
No sooner had I reviewed for this publication (3 November) William Ophuls' Plato's Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology, which asks us to rethink our relationship with the most famous Greek...
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Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
Two hundred thousand heads are better than one: Harold Thimbleby on the worldwide web of thought
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Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection
Fan fiction is simply fiction created by fans of other works, who borrow characters or fictional worlds from these works and create short stories, books or (increasingly) audiovisual content using...
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The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters
As status-seeking managers multiply, they pervert the university's core mission, Alan Ryan laments
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Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
Roger Morgan can't complain about a study of realms that have faded to 'join the choir invisible'
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Musical Understandings & Other Essays on the Philosophy of Music
This is a diverse and stimulating collection of essays. It must be said, however, that although there is much of interest here, and it deserves to be widely read, a good deal of it covers familiar...
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The Next Wave: Using Digital Technology to Further Social and Political Innovation
In his 1980 book The Third Wave, American futurologist Alvin Toffler proposed that there are periodic bursts of intense radical change when each new emerging society supplants its predecessor....
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Roadtrips and peregrinations
Combining an academic life with travel writing isn't easy but, as Matthew Reisz discovers, the results can be fascinating
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Diary
NewcastleKeith Pattison: No RedemptionThe miners' strike of 1984-85 tore apart many long-established communities. Keith Pattison was at Easington Colliery to photograph the events from behind the...