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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 about a lifelong Scottish feud: "The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long...
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Learning to love uncertainty
Conversations with a Mathematician
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Cosmic doughnuts followed by superstring fries?
The Bigger Bang - Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
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Fuzzy blobs in sharp focus
The Cambridge Photographic Guide to the Planets - The Compact NASA Atlas of the Solar System
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Laurie Taylor column
I see UUK's in serious trouble. I'm sorry. I stopped reading the comic strips years ago. No, it's not a cartoon character. It's a sort of acronym for Universities UK. What's that? UUK is the new name...
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Letter: Cool it
Like many other scientists, I am troubled by the unseemly controversy over claims that transgenic DNA may have spread to traditional varieties of Mexican maize ("Scientists call for reason in GM row...
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Letter: Poor political plays
We sabbatical officers wholeheartedly condemn the president and treasurer of the National Union of Students for sending a letter to all student union presidents urging them not to vote for Labour...
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Letter: Copywrongs
If the working paper on the exploitation of public-sector information is converted into a European Union directive, it spells the end of debate about copyright in higher education research ("Worry at...
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Letter: Post-92 pain
Your coverage of the funding allocations ( THES , March 8) showed little appreciation of the harm they will inflict on many new universities. Removing £17 million of collaboration research funding...
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Letter: King should stick to science
David King, government chief scientific adviser, argued at the launch of National Science Week this week that the United Kingdom should invest in new nuclear power stations to reduce carbon dioxide...
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Letter: Fail-safe methods?
Streaming without a change in teaching methods is unlikely to solve the problem of students whose mathematics is weak ("Keeping up with the smart 'set'", THES , March 1). It is more likely to...
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Letter: Raise Gats game
The tone of debate over education services in the General Agreement on Trade in Services is disappointing. Many people decry the potential loss of quality that an influx of private providers might...
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Letter: Chutzpah and the RAE 1
Professor Lapping's otherwise insightful analysis of citations as an index of research excellence (Laurie Taylor, THES , March 8) misses one important point - the willingness of researchers to cite...
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Letter: Chutzpah and the RAE 2
Lapping, Odgers and Quintock neglect a deeper flaw in the citation index method for the RAE than "gratuitous citing", namely PABHEPITRY (publish absolute bollocks hoping everyone piles in to rubbish...