Open eTEN call for proposals
Brussels, 01 Apr 2004 A call for proposals for projects of common interest in the field of trans-European telecommunications networks (eTEN) will remain open until 9 June. Proposals must fit into one...
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ESA and the EU - Towards a Space Agency for the European Union
Paris, 01 Apr 2004 ESA is an independent European agency and does not form part of the European Union (EU). Some countries that belong to the EU are not members of ESA and vice versa. There are,...
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All systems are go for new Research InfoCentre
Brussels, 01 Apr 2004 Finally, a faster way to find research stories and information on Europa, the Commission's web service. After many months of preparation and with greater emphasis on...
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Gems on the back of an old postcard
Minoans - The Decipherment of Linear B and the Ventris-Chadwick Correspondence
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How a cockroach can be a canary
The Earth - Lovelock's Gaia: Signs of Life
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Smoking gun sought amid the soup scraps
Stalin's Last Crime
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When the public got its hands on God
Reformation - The Reformation
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The twists and turns that begot a monster
The Coming of the Third Reich
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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 novel filmed by a famous Japanese director: "At about nine o'clock one morning, at the end of...
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Laurie Taylor column
" The Leadership Foundation for Higher Education is to run a series of masterclasses for university leaders " - The Times Higher , March 26. Good morning and welcome. Let me say straightaway that it'...
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Leader: Public mission is lost in hill of beans
Once more economic arguments threaten to dominate the debate over the expansion of universities. On the eve of a second crucial Commons vote on the government's plans for top-up fees, much was made...
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Leader: Aid blue-chip research
The latest complaint against the research assessment exercise is that it is damaging British innovation by taking cash away from university departments that carry out research with a comparatively...
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Consciousness raising 2
Susan Blackmore's ill-informed review lists one side of a debate on consciousness but not the other. Making sense of the causal interaction of consciousness and brains is puzzling but important....
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A Gary to lift the day
Gary Day's columns should be published as a collection. I welcome his wit, irony, comical accounts of absurd but all-too-real occurrences, and merciless focus on the ever-increasing distractions that...