Truths that slip out over a banana
Temperamentally, bonobos and chimps are poles apart. Humankind, however, has something from both of its kinsmen, says Frans de Waal There is no greater contrast between humankind's two closest...
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'I swore on my grandparents' grave I'd work for the Roma'
Faisal al Yafai meets Romania's only female Gypsy academic, who wants her people to overcome age-old prejudice As the lecturer walked through the gates of her university in colourful, flowing skirts...
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The institute of bad ideas
You're a think-tank and you know you are, a think-tank and you know you are. You're not fit to think a thought, you're not fit to think a thought. Shall we think a thought for you? Ooooooh, you're a...
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Freedom of thought, it's your God-given right
Whatever happened to the great Muslim tradition of debate, asks Irshad Manji, who urges the reform-minded faithful to pipe up Three years ago, during a trip to Gaza, I landed an on-camera interview...
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Student gigs make me gag
Naive adolescents, Oxbridge toffs and rugger buggers braying for knob jokes often makes campus comedy no laughing matter. Michael North learns how to tease a smile from an undergrad Student gigs are...
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ECHR judgment in Roche v UK (only violation of article 8 in former serviceman's inability to sue for for ill-health he believed to have been caused by Porton Down research facility)
Strasbourg, 19 October 2005 The European Court of Human Rights has today delivered at a public hearing its Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Roche v. the United Kingdom (application no. 32555/96...
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Venus Express ready for lift-off
Paris, 19 Oct 2005 ESA's Venus Express spacecraft is to be launched on a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday 26 October at 06:43 CEST (04:43 GMT, 10:43 local...
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Top officials and specialists from all space-faring nations meet at the first Space Safety Conference in Nice, France
Paris, 19 Oct 2005 At the 40th IAF congress in Beijing, China, in October 1989 the then NASA Associated Administrator for Safety and Mission Assurance, George Rodney, concluded his presentation on...
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DTI issues new scientific policy-making guidelines (link)
London, 19 October 2005 Guidelines on Scientific Analysis in Policy Making A new version of the Chief Scientific Adviser's guidelines on Scientific Analysis in Policy Making goes live today. The...
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Today's news
Warwick’s decision disrupts Singapore’s plans A decision by Warwick University to abandon plans for a Singapore campus due to worries about academic freedom might set back efforts by the city-state...
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Long-Range Research Initiative: request for proposals
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Latest research news
Magnetic fields set senses tingling Patients who suffer a stroke could get their movement and feeling back with the helping hand of magnetic pulses fired at their brains, according to new research....
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Report on proposal to require Greece to revoke its provisional prohibition of hybrid maize seeds with GM Mon 810 on which Council failed to make decision in July (link)
Brussels, 18 October 2005 Full text of Document 13172/1/05 Revision 01 Suite of documents 13172/1/05 14 October 2005 (17.10) REPORT from: COREPER dated: 11 October 2005 to: COUNCIL No. Cion prop.:...