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Indonesian rector assassinated The rector of Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, has been assassinated by hit-men. Dayan Dawood, 55, was shot on Thursday just after leaving the...
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Latest UK news
BA conference highlights algae fears Poisonous algae are being shipped around the world in the ballast tanks of cargo vessels, delegates at the British Association's Festival of Science heard today....
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From today's UK papers
Guardian Plato's Republic has been voted the greatest work of philosophy, despite the fact that most modern thinkers would rubbish almost all of what he said. Independent Two hundred people have...
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Rousing the boiling frog
John Adams finds that the rise in crime may be linked to the fall in picnics. David Garland begins by asserting: "We quickly grow used to the way things are." His description of our contemporary...
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Crumbling decay and cockroach tea cures
Inventing New Orleans
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Soul-searching in the Homeric man
Flesh and Spirit in the Songs of Homer
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The tide turns on nature's 'master'
Dams and Development
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Modern metropolitan maladies
A Companion to the City
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Swampy saviours
Wetland Ecology
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A way to make sense of ants' wanderings
The Geometry of Ecological Interactions
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When it's not good to take the air
Particulate Matter
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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 pope written by a baron: "In mind he was tired, worn out, by years of hope deferred,...
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Leading ladies
Female Spectacle
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Dialogue needed to kick-start evolution
The Gender and Science Reader