TV & radio guide - Friday
(All time pm unless stated) Conquistadors (9.00 BBC2; 9.30 in Wales). “The Fall of the Aztecs.” Michael Wood starts a four-part travelogue-history series on the 16th-century Spaniards who overran...
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A fresh approach to taking a bath
With her book Bathing: The Body and Community Care , Julia Twigg hopes to bring new insights to carework by placing it in a broader social and historical context. Nothing could be more mundane than...
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Return of the killer comb jellyfish
As rogue jellyfish wreak havoc in the Caspian Sea, ecologist Henri Dumont warns that time is running out for indigenous species and local fishermen alike. What happens when an organism that has...
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Disguising cheap matter as fabulous treasure
Bricks, tins of excrement, pickled animals and unmade bedsI Anything can be passed off as art, says Robert Dixon, and London's Tate Gallery is largely to blame. Whoever gets the Turner prize on...
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Filling the gaps in the knowledge economy
The university has played a crucial role in expanding Cambridge's high-tech cluster. But, says Bill Wicksteed, the government has not risen to the challenge. Images of wealthy zillionaires from...
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So we agree not to agree?
A year ago, John Kay quit as director of Oxford's Said Business School. Here he suggests what prompted his decision and outlines the problems of a 'declining' organisation. Good morning, and welcome...
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Higher Channels
You don’t have to be a dendrophile to enjoy BBC2’s Meetings with Remarkable Trees series; history comes into it, too. This week, two special trees get their ten-minutes’ worth: on Friday (9.50; 10.20...
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Textbook Guide, 24 November 2000
Inside this week's THES is our 28-page autumn Textbook Guide.The featured subjects are: politics languages and linguistics psychology and psychiatry mathematics and physics engineering Here online...
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Latest UK news
New chairman for funding council David Young, deputy chairman of the John Lewis Partnership and a former treasurer of the Open University, will chair the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Latest international news
Approval for $1bn Indian project An Indian cabinet committee has approved a $1 billion project to set up “top class” institutions in the country, on the lines of the Indian institutes of technology....
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Scientists at the University of Trento in Italy describe how they have discovered a way to draw something approaching a laser-like emission from silicon Researchers from the...
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Exploring the Deep Sub-Seafloor Biosphere: travel grants
Deadline: 12/01/2001
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Daily TV & radio - Thursday
Routes of English (9.00 am R4). New series of Melvyn Bragg’s survey of spoken English. This week, "Pitmatic", the dialect of Northumberland’s pit villages, and not to be confused with "Geordie"....
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Latest international news
Putin shows largesse Russian president Vladimir Putin doubled the size of presidential scholarships for promising students in an impromptu announcement during a visit to Moscow's Bauman State...