The Puzzle of Left-handedness
The "puzzle" here, according to Rik Smits, is that while left-handedness is an enduring characteristic of humans, it has long been seen as an aberration, linked to all sorts of negativity and widely...
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To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora
With this book, Tom Devine, Scotland's best-known historian, completes a trilogy of surveys of Scotland at home and abroad. The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000 (1999) examined the rise of modern Scotland...
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The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal about Human Nature
Another narrow Darwinian conception of economic behaviour tries Isabelle Szmigin's patience
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Æthelstan: The First King of England
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle described him as "lord of nobles, treasure-giver to men". The Welsh called him mechteyrn, "great king". The 12th-century historian William of Malmesbury said: "The whole of...
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A Little History of Philosophy
The continuing success of the slow food movement - the ethical, nutritional and aesthetic reaction to the meteoric rise of junk food during the 20th century - sadly appears to be accompanied by an...
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Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990
Patrick Hannay reflects on the waste and diversion of energy by a movement that purported to cure a cultural malaise
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Diary
LondonBetween Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from the Centre of AsiaFor many in the West, if they think about the area at all, Afghanistan, Mongolia and the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan...
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The Pick - The Passenger
Credit: Catherine AshmoreThe PassengerEnglish National OperaWe are on a glitzy ocean liner in the early 1960s. Walter, a German diplomat, and his wife Liese are setting off to Brazil. Suddenly she is...
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I'm sorry, I'll write that again
"This could be the end for Lapping." That was the ominous response of Louise Bimpson, Corporate Director of Human ߣߣÊÓƵ, to the revelation that Gordon Lapping, head of our Department of Media and...
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Stapel diet of fraud
Miles Hewstone discusses a heinous data-faking scandal and the lessons that must be learned to stop the ‘betrayers of the truth’
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Leader: Good luck, you'll really need it
The back-to-campus jitters will be more pronounced than ever because, in this year of tumult, no one knows what lies ahead
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Research intelligence - When predicting winners, it pays to follow the papers trail
Nobel prize forecasts for 2011 utilise highly referenced 'citation laureates'. Paul Jump reports
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The week in higher education
• Irish travellers, left-wing activists, European "anarchists" and human rights lawyers: the story about an illegal traveller encampment at Dale Farm in Essex has proved manna from heaven for the...
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From where I sit - Not all the leaves are brown
AB 131, the second half of the proposed legislation popularly known as the California Dream Act, is currently awaiting final ratification. If approved, it will give undocumented Californian residents...
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Appointments
Social Policy AssociationSue DuncanSue Duncan, who was the UK's first chief government social researcher, has been named the new president of the UK Social Policy Association. Professor Duncan, who...