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Philosophers protest at teaching of creationism Some 43 philosophers and scientists have sent a letter to prime minister Tony Blair to protest at the teaching of creationism at the state-funded...
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Next week
News Welsh gold: how Cardiff University turned itself round Features Should we go to war with Iraq? Middle-East experts give their views Plus: the ANC is 90 - we look at its changing relationship...
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Trouble in the trades
Why create a nation of academics when it's electricians and plumbers we need, asks Chris Woodhead. "To question the government's policies," I wrote in the chapter on universities in my book Class War...
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Why I ...believe debating science with creationists will not work
Creation "science" advocates that there is scientific evidence to support a 6,000-year-old Earth and a global flood some 4,000 years ago. It is claimed that the science of creationists is supported...
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Cuts put 100 jobs at risk
Up to 100 jobs may go at Queen Mary, University of London, under plans being drawn up to cope with cuts to research funding. Principal Adrian Smith plans "substantial staffing reductions" in the...
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A recipe for healthy brain growth: start with fish oil
Dyslexia can ruin lives. Now evidence suggests that the right diet may diminish or even prevent this and other neuronal disorders. In the winning essay in this year's THES/Oxford University Press...
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Ways to put words into their mouths
The Silent Child
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Our ongoing love affair with paper
The Myth of the Paperless Office
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Inside the race of the century
Public science was key in decoding the genome, says Ian Wilmut. The events described in The Common Thread will be of profound importance to everyone. Knowledge of the sequence of the human genome...
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Living under the pharaoh's spell
Egypt of the Pharaohs - Egyptian Diaries - Reflections of Osiris - An Egyptian Bestiary
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Where matriarchs mix it up with bone hunters
Frontiers 01
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Battlefield for parents' genes
Evolutionary Psychology - Human Nature After Darwin
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Blinded by blindsight?
Out of Mind
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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 set in pre-war London by a prize-winning ߣߣÊÓƵn: "Outside the station, people settled down...
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Closer look at staff minds
Organizational Psychology and Development - Well-Being in Organizations - Personnel Psychology and HRM