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Speaking Volumes: R. A. Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
I was standing in the Cambridge genetics department office in 1958 when R. A. Fisher's secretary handed him his pre-publication copies of the Dover edition of The Genetical Theory of Natural...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an inveterate traveller from Berkhamsted with catholic tastes: "Mr Trench...
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Conrad Russell
Conrad Russell is Liberal Democrat spokesman in the House of Lords for social security, not higher education. He wrote in last week's THES in a personal capacity, which does not reflect his party's...
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Honorary degrees
University of Oxford. DCL: Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic. Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh DBA: George Borthwick, president of Ethicon Europe, governor of the college (1989-1995) and...
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Chairs
Kingston University Derek Holder, managing director of the Institute of Direct Marketing, has been appointed the university's first professor of direct marketing. University of Teesside Nigel Oswald...
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Fellowships
University of Sunderland Honorary fellowships were awarded to: Marjorie Atkinson, founder member and honorary life president of the Ford and Pennywell Advice Centre, honorary treasurer of Conductive...
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The giant of small schemes
Novelist R. K. Narayan's invented town Malgudi has somehow become almost a real place. Andrew Robinson, interviewing Narayan, embarks on a Malgudi magical mystery tour The English language," wrote R...
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The poverty policy trap
As the government's new Social Exclusion Unit starts work, academics are split over how to deal with The poor. David Walker reports There were two versions of the government's agenda on poverty and...
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Man is off the menu
When William Arens debunked the history of cannibalism he caused a furore among anthropologists. Here he answers his critics While travelling through Scandinavia in 1795, fleeing a failed love affair...
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Why cash is no panacea
The poverty policy trap Why, among equally deprived areas, do some communities do better than others? After urban riots in France in the early 1980s, says housing specialist Anne Power, the French...
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Tiny outward and visible signs of the scholar's inward game
Why do we need footnotes? Anthony Grafton knows. John Davies reports Are footnotes necessary? For Anthony Grafton, professor of history at Princeton University, the answer is undoubtedly "Yes". In...
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The holy grail of sound
Why has it taken 250 years for us to make musical instruments that can rival those of Stradivari? The answer, says Thomas Levenson, is a lesson in the limits of science Sometime in the 1650s, in...
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Off the blocks and into the class
Once marginalised, the study of sport has become a glamorous subject. Huw Richards reports In the past four or five years, sports science has become a glamour subject," says Tom Reilly. Liverpool...