Intellectual extras
Makers of films and TV shows often hire scholars to give projects authenticity and gravitas, but what's in it for the academics? asks Reece Mathews
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Relative interests
Jacob Bronowski, one of the 20th century's great public intellectuals, was born 100 years ago this week. Matthew Reisz speaks to his daughter Lisa Jardine.
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Bournemouth: professor of journalism
Stuart Allan has joined the Media School as professor of journalism and chair of the Journalism Research Group, from the University of the West of England.
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Bath Spa University: Artswork senior teaching fellow
Emma Gersch has been promoted to Artswork senior teaching fellow in the School of Music and Performing Arts.
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Are managers liable for the conduct of the public at work?
By Diane Gilhooley
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The Greeks and Greek Love
Simon Goldhill is stimulated by a spunky new take on Greek male relations.
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A Life Decoded - My Genome: My Life
The ability to sequence the human genome is providing one of the most important opportunities in biomedical research in this new century. It will lead to the development of effective therapies for...
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The Virtual Life of Film
To say that David Rodowick's essay is a continuation in print of confessions and polemics that have been taking place for nearly a decade wherever film and media scholars gather is not intended as a...
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What Is Intelligence? Beyond the Flynn Effect
In analysing ever rising IQ scores, the man who gave his name to the phenomenon treads a fine line between wishful thinking and objective empiricism, says Wendy Johnson.
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Print Is Dead: Books in our Digital Age
Tara Brabazon
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Published this week
ArtAnarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde. By Allan Antliff, assistant professor of art history, University of Alberta. Chicago University Press, £23.00. ISBN...
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Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Nigel Barley explores a great British institution.
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The week in books
Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Extermination, 1939-45 by Saul Friedländer. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £30.00, ISBN 978297818779 "Friedlander's (1939 Club chair in Holocaust studies, University...