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Idea back in the dock
Paradigms Regained
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The list that sent mathematicians for their pencils
The Hilbert Challenge
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Six pillars of cosmic wisdom
Just Six Numbers
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Higher Channels
We are no longer producing our own television and radio guide, but several excellent all-channel UK programme guides are available on the web. For additional information about specific programmes,...
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Sermon from the Mount
The holiest site in Jerusalem, the focus of so much dogmatic and violent rivalry, can show the way to religious peace, argues Bernard Wasserstein. The Jerusalem question lies at the heart of the...
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Critical thinking on the path to peace
Palestinian intellectual Edward Said recently visited South Africa to advise on education, but while he was there he also spoke of how the country had much to teach the Middle East about the pursuit...
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Why do good neighbours become sworn enemies?
Jewish writer Eva Hoffman strives to understand the uneasy complexities of human rights and wrongs. Jennifer Wallace met her before her Amnesty lecture. Nobody is on one side or the other permanently...
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Search for a fractured past starts with a few photos and trinkets
Helen Epstein calls her latest book 'historical repair work', an attempt to understand her family's life before and after the Holocaust. She spoke to Anne Sebba for Jewish Book Week. Making sense of...
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Universities benefit from Brown's budget
Universities will benefit from a raft of measures announced in chancellor Gordon Brown’s budget designed to boost research, innovation and the knowledge economy. With a £23 billion projected surplus...
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Latest UK news
Union infighting threatens pay deal In-fighting among trade unions could derail pay negotiations between university staff leaders and employers. The stand-off between the Association of...
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Latest international news
Melbourne stakes A$10m claim in e-university The University of Melbourne is to allocate almost A$10 million (£3.5 million) towards a A$50 million global online university supported...
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THES opinion: budget's omissions
In yesterday's budget speech, chancellor Gordon Brown stated unambiguously that the British economy needs "2.5 million more employees at degree or higher degree levels, and overall more workers...
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From today's UK papers
The Guardian A team of Oxford University scientists and historians has gained a glimpse into everyday Roman activities from a collection of wax tablets found at Hadrian's Wall, which had defied all...
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From today's UK papers
Daily Telegraph A study of bones and genes at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC has shed new light on the dawn of civilisation and the domestication of animals and plants. The Times Two...