Writing's on the wall for US culture
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Special words with a beauty all of their own
The Singularity of Literature - Peculiar Language
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Apostle eagerto dip into the other side
Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe
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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 work that helped to popularise sociobiology: "Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it...
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Time for a pregnant pause in progress?
On Being Born and Other Difficulties
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Smooth sailing on endless hostile sea
What is History? and other Essays
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Happy endings for heart and soul
Cities of Words
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Bit of this (or that) for you (or I)
Reflecting the Mind
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Lego and professor click over research
An academic's love of Lego has led to an unusual research collaboration with the toy's Danish maker. Lego is funding David Gauntlett, professor of media and audiences at Bournemouth University, to...
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Deliver pay deal, union warns
The Association of University Teachers is to name and shame universities that it argues have been slow to implement the new pay framework for academics, as frustration grows that the majority of...
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'He famously offered readers his car to go and visit Durham'
Bestselling author Bill Bryson has been appointed 11th chancellor of Durham University In one of Bill Bryson's best-known works, Notes from a Small Island , his account of touring round Britain, he...
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On the move...
* Christopher Fynsk , former professor of comparative literature and philosophy at the State University of New York in Binghamton, has been appointed chair in comparative literature and modern...
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Cost control hits 'basics' at Middx
Staff told conference attendance must be approved Basic "scholarly activity" essential to an academic's working life is at risk as universities make ever more stringent financial cuts, lecturing...
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Bought essays fail to hit the mark
Students who think they can beat plagiarism detection software by paying an internet ghostwriting service to produce bespoke essays may want to think again, writes Phil Baty. An experiment at...