This life: the artificial one
The quest to create life-like creatures out of silicon chips, wires and wheels is well under way and may one day culminate in the creation of a virtual human. Kam Patel reports Last week artificial...
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The fringe dwellers
Will history vindicate three academics whose controversial views on Darwin and Einstein are scorned by the scientific community? Ayala Ochert investigates If a literary expert were to suggest that...
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Stuck on sundews
In the first of a series on young researchers, Julia Hinde goes looking for the origins of Drosera with plant evolutionist Alastair Culham Those with a passion for plants need not look far for botany...
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Life as a field study
Mark Redman is a rustic, holistic academic. He lives in the country, champions organic farming and lectures on and in bucolic bliss. Gail Vines reports from deepest Dorset The academic life is often...
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Reel fantasies, real crimes
Andrea Dworkin describes how she, Catharine MacKinnon and Linda Lovelace battled to prove that pornographers were similar in kind to the Ku Klux Klan In fall 1983 Catharine MacKinnon and I co-taught...
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Siaredir Cymraeg yma ?*
Lawrence M. Knowles discovers a Welshman who dreams of a Welsh-speaking campus Ioan Williams has a dream. It is to reinvent the University of Wales as the re-embodiment of the "medieval Welsh...
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British Academy
Tony Wrigley has succeeded Keith Thomas as president of the British Academy for 1997-98. Other officers elected include: M. McGowan, vice president; J. Flemming, treasurer; B. Supple, foreign...
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Appointments
Crichton College, Dumfries. Rex Taylor, professor of social policy and social work at the University of Glasgow, has been appointed director of the college. Cathy Garner, director of policy...
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Fee foes smell blood
Doesn't Sir Ron Dearing's recommendation that graduates start paying back borrowed money when their income reaches Pounds 5,000 (THES, July 25) seem to undermine his belief that graduates...
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Minister wary on devolution
A SCOTTISH parliament could take a more generous approach than Westminster to student support, but "realism must accompany idealism" in the Government's devolution proposals, Scottish education...
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Teacher trainers aim high
THE BATTLE to bring teacher training funding back in line with the rest of higher education is not yet over, higher education's teacher trainers claimed this week. Launching a consultation document...
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Clive Booth appointment welcomed
UCET has welcomed the appointment of Clive Booth, former vice chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, to the chairmanship of the TTA. Professor Booth replaces Geoffrey Parker. "Clive Booth has a...
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Welsh field centre survives
GREGYNOG, the University of Wales residential centre, will have to adjust to a new funding system from next year, but should not be in danger of closure. Fears had been expressed for its future after...
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TB's relative values
SCIENTISTS are puzzled why the BCG vaccine against pulmonary tuberculosis appears to offer little protection in some tropical countries, while boosting immunity in higher latitudes. Researchers at...
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Golden bullet fired in river blindness war
"Nanobullets" made of pure gold, coated with genetically engineered DNA vaccines and fired into the skin using a "gene gun" may sound like some gadget out of a James Bond film, but researchers at the...