An inveterate trailblazer
The Humboldt Current
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Wishful thinking adds fuel to alien ideas
Why Aren't They Here?
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Kinship that means monkey business
Baboon Metaphysics
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Quirky way to beat queues
More Sex Is Safer Sex
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The relativists and the religious
Science and the Indian Tradition
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The war without weapons
Nazi Games
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Man's evolution to a just and beneficent being
Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life
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Different voices, similar destinies
Ian McEwan's Enduring Love - J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye - Richard Wright's Native Son
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All the news that's fit to print to serve the fourth estate
The Future of Journalism in Advanced Democracies
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a hard-drinking author now better remembered for his stage plays: "London, the crouching monster, like...
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Postgraduate Research Awards
Deadline: 30/11/2007
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Goodbye blue skies?
Plans to award research grants on the basis of 'economic impact' are sparking widespread anxiety, reports Melanie Newman Concerns that academics may not win research grants unless they can...
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Summers' storm was 'written in his genes'
Could genes explain the controversial behaviour of Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard University, who caused an uproar when he questioned whether women possessed the innate potential for...
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'Scientists recognise that they have to work with the media and not against it'
Wellcome Trust's Katrina Nevin-Ridley urges her fellow publicists to help researchers get the message across Katrina Nevin-Ridley, head of media at the Wellcome Trust, wants to recruit university...
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On the move...
* York University has made the following appointments: Tom Fleming , former health, safety and environment manager at Loughborough University, becomes director of health and safety; Brian Porter ,...