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  1. Scientific method 1

    Martin Cohen's article "Beyond debate?" (10 December) deserves some comment. The author's logic and judgment of things scientific can be read from his comment: "how rational is it to pass laws...

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  2. Scientific method 2

    I would ask the politicians queuing up to criticise University of East Anglia scientists in the wake of the "Climategate" incident to take a long, hard look in the mirror before proceeding further...

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  3. Women's work

    Elizabeth Hoult is quite right to argue that learning needs to be reconceptualised in order for all students to gain the best possible experience ("Let feminine side of learning thrive", 10 December...

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  4. Long wait for instructions

    Your excellent piece on teaching rewards is both timely and useful ("Pedagogy a poor second in promotions", 10 December). Clearly, very few academics would challenge the fact that good-quality...

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  5. Czech facts

    "The mythbuster", your article on Mary Heimann's new book about 20th-century Czechoslovakia, itself contains myths (3 December). From it, readers may assume that since 1978 there has been no work by...

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  6. No such thing as free study

    According to Edward Dutton, one of the many good qualities of higher education in Finland is the fact that it is still free ("Finns, they are a-changin'", 10 December). Sadly, there never has been...

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  7. Economic model

    Oh dear. In the book review "Out of nowhere into the limelight" (12 November), Natalie Gold claims that: "In Economics Is a Serious Subject (1932), (Joan Robinson) argued that economists should use...

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  8. Role model

    Labour wants to make public bodies more representative, and Eileen Kaner is an ideal ambassador for the push

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  9. Appointments

    An academic who has contributed to investigations of major oil industry disasters - including the fire on the Piper Alpha rig in the North Sea that killed more than 100 people in 1988 - has been made...

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  11. Shroom with a view

    Hallucinogenic mushrooms may be responsible for the myth that Father Christmas was pulled through the air by reindeer. National experts on mushrooms, mythology and the environment met at Sheffield...

  13. Durham University - Alternative sheep music

    The Christmas carol While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night was originally sung to a different tune, research suggests. The traditional song once had the same melody used for the Yorkshire...

  14. University of Aberdeen - Bit of a laugh

    Visitors to the Glasgow Science Centre will have the chance to create their own Christmas-cracker jokes over the festive season, courtesy of a computer developed by scientists at the University of...

  15. Leeds Metropolitan University - Male-order shopping

    A study by an academic from Leeds Metropolitan University has confirmed that there are two types of male shopper: the "traditional" and the "metrosexual" man. John Temperley, senior lecturer in...