Hand-outs that can damage the world
Perverse Subsidies
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How traffic jams spring up on clear roads
Mathematical Models in Applied Sciences
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Measured successes
Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
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Pilots, parachutes and a drunk's walk
Fractals, Scaling and Growth Far From Equilibrium
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Spinning a good scientific yarn
The Story of Spin
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The road to E=mc<sup>2</sub>
Einstein's Miraculous Year
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Higher channels
John Davies selects radio and television programmes of use to THES readers. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Horizon: Chimps on Death Row Thursday 9.25 BBC2. Horizon continues the...
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'You don't know it , but history is in you'
WORLDLY WISE 15 Is Simon Schama our 'most gifted historian' or a prima donna? Harriet Swain reports. When Simon Schama was seven years old, his father would get him to declaim Shakespearean speeches...
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The nitty gritty of student choice
Are league tables here to stay? Jennie Bristow asks pairs of vice-chancellors, heads of department and students how important they think they are John Brooks Vice-chancellor University of...
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Slipping up on our apples and pears
We must move away from false comparisons, while guaranteeing minimum standards, says Michael Scott Michelangelo once addressed a group of students about perception. He went to an entirely white wall...
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Made to measure
League tables are here to stay like it or not. Leslie Wagner kicks off this year's THES Trends with a call for more value-added appraisalof university performance Value-added is the buzz word in...
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Tables turned on critics
The authors of The Times league tables are fed up with insults and want more constructive criticism Speakers at a Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals conference felt The Times league tables...
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Push and pulling power
Elaine Carlton looks at what alternative university guides have to offer student wannabes It could be the price of beer, the number of good-looking women or men, or the best place for a buzzing night...
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Hotline for not-so-blind data
HESA is in the statistics business but that does not mean league tables, Brian Ramsden argues Long ago, one evening when I was the only person left in the office, I had the dubious pleasure of...
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Cloning a Lost Lover
You weren't there any more. I don't know why, but I know you were gone, just not there any more, and I was frozen with grief. (You know how it would be. I was eating lots of salad, running four miles...