Virtual minefield
MYCONCERN about Niall Ferguson's counterfactual history is its likely misuse (THES, April 4). Virtual history will be used to try and legitimise the revival of policy or political ideology that has...
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Don's diary
Monday. I join the Royal Research Ship Discovery in the port of Vigo, Spain. Meet the old and a few new faces in the ship's crew and the other scientists sailing with me. It is a multicultural...
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Regions in search of an identity
When the polytechnics became the latest wave of new universities in 1992 there was a scramble to retain or adopt an attractive city title. But as many of the older universities had already...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you haveto identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an old Roman who rode the streets of his city once again last week aftera...
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Heart-felt prayers
Coronary patients are to be the subject of an experiment to find out if there really is power in prayer. Russell Stannard asks should God be put to the test? Do prayers for sick people work? We might...
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Plenty of stones still unturned
Safety on North Sea oil platforms is beinghampered by free market philosophy, argues Charles Woolfson A recent government inspection of the Piper Bravo oil platform, off the Scottish coast, revealed...
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Lucky losers
Huw Richards quizzes the academic losers of previous elections about what might have been.. If parallel universes exist there is probably one in which Pat Seyd rather than Tony Blair is about to...
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Please don't mention the war
British and German perceptions of each other are stuck in a time warp. We must move on from the second world war, says Richard Cockett I was invited to an unusual dinner party by a German girlfriend...
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Why do we fail to shed tiers?
Class is a very British obsession but for David Cannadine it is more about perception than economic statistics. Lucy Hodges reports. Class is a subject that obsesses us British. We use it as a lens...
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The day all chaos broke loose
Meteorologist Edward Lorenz nearly talked himself out of a job when he discovered chaos theory. Ayala Ochert meets the man who made long-range weather forecasting impossible. There's a great deal of...
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Fieldwork with Bo, Peep and their lost sheep
A mass suicide turned Robert Balch into an instant media star. Tim Cornwell hears how a Montana sociology professor infiltrated the notorious Heaven's Gate cult all in the name of research. A...
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In and out of this world
Fact and fun combine in Donna Haraway's work of literary pyrotechnics to describe our technoscientific world. Gail Vines reports. Donna Haraway's writing is flamboyant, funny, challenging - and not a...
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A voyage around V. S.
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
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The future of an illusion
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Postwar Britain - Our Currency, Our Country - A Grand Illusion? An Essay on Europe
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Pessimism the Proustian way
How Proust Can Change Your Life