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Emotion in motion
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals - The Emotional Brain
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The poet and the engineer
The Art of Moral Protest
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A player, an umpire and a manager describe their roles in the ever-expanding journals game
Citation circus ignites explosion THE SUBMITTER'S TALE Graham Barnfield, lecturer in American studies, Brunel. "It's a waiting game: from sending an article to a journal to actually getting the...
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Celebrity scientist
Paul Davies, one of the world's great communicators of science, talks to Harriet Swain about religion and fame, and (right) explains why the origin of life remains such a mystery Paul Davies is...
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Why the human race might not exist if evolution returned to square one
Perhaps the three greatest outstanding challenges to science at the turn of the Millennium are the origin of the universe, the origin of life and the origin of consciousness. The first and last of...
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South Africa's chaotic cultural revolution
The ANC's attempts to make South Africa's universities cater for the black majority population has plunged them into crisis, argues R. W. Johnson South Africa's universities are struggling against...
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Widening the poverty trap door
Last week 150 academics supported a letter opposing the government's welfare reforms. In the latest in the series on social exclusion, Ruth Lister explains what is wrong with pushing people off...
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Citation circus ignites explosion
Two thousand new research journals spin off the presses every year. Why? reports Ever heard of Bradford's law? It is the rule that of the cornucopia of journals produced by academics to publish the...
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Elizabeth Tate
(Photograph) - Tate Gallery: Elizabeth Tate, lecturer at Sunderland University, installs her sculpture, 'Bronze Grove', as part of a university exhibition at Bradley Nursery and Gardens, Wylam,...
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Medics to rise by 1,000
ABOUT 1,000 extra places will be created for medical students each year from 2005 - a 20 per cent increase on present levels - the government has announced. But academics are warning that quality...
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Young doctors scrap rote
THE University of Manchester medical school has come up with a radical solution to curriculum overload, writes Alison Utley. It has decided to abandon big lectures, and replace them with problem-...
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Research is bad for you
Seen on the front of a box of research application forms at an unnamed university last week was the following advice: "HEALTH WARNING: Researching can damage your health. Most vice-chancellors don't...
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Fact file
The Further Education Funding Council's figures for 1996-97 reveal that: * enrolments to council-funded further education courses increased by 16 per cent to 3.1 million * part-time numbers were up...