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Spam with everything
John Gilbey on a sharp account of the increasingly complex business of preventing unwanted emails
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Notes on a scandal: the black experience depicted
African American artist talks back to race and gender history in a dazzling jazz-tempo series in mixed media and Afrylics
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Doctoral integrity springs a聽leak along the Danube
PhDs are valuable political capital in Germany, Eastern Europe and beyond, but the currency has been devalued by a string of high-profile plagiarism cases at the very heart of government. Paul Jump...
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Jeepers creepers
Somewhere, in a class past or future, sits someone absolutely unforgettable - your worst student. Ever. John Kaag confronts the existential terror of a pedagogical puzzle
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San Jos茅 faces fight from guardians of the gateway
Institution鈥檚 experiment aims to clear gridlocked 鈥榞ateway鈥. Jon Marcus reports from California
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Campus round-up
Dan roamingThe British Judo Association has chosen a university to house its Centre of Excellence in England. An independent performance review of the association earlier this year recommended the...
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Christopher Bigsby - Take a hike? There鈥檚 one tiny hitch鈥
Christopher Bigsby on the declining art of hitch-hiking
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For a return to seriousness, send in the clowns
This is the age of the anti-social network, but the humanities classroom offers reflection of a healthier sort, argues Robert Zaretsky
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Knowing the brain is no substitute for knowing the person, argues Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Technology has transformed psychology, but real insights come from considering humanity, too, argues Annette Karmiloff-Smith
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Beefing up research hubs may be good for UK聽plc but it鈥檚 bad for the North-South divide, say Henry Overman and Christian Helmers
AstraZeneca鈥檚 move to Cambridge hub may widen North-South divide, say Henry聽Overman and Christian聽Helmers
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Obituary - H. Paul Friesema
A leading environmental researcher and campaigner has died.Paul Friesema was born on 20 February 1936 and, after completing undergraduate study at Michigan State University (1958), he went on to take...
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Awards and promotions
Durham UniversityTed SchreckerThe new professor of global health policy at Durham University said he felt 鈥渟heer delight鈥 when offered the post. Ted Schrecker, associate professor in the department...
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THE Scholarly Web - The paws that refresh
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Grant winners
Action Medical ResearchResearch GrantsAward winner: Doris-Eva BamiouInstitution: University College LondonValue: 拢19,140Auditory processing disorders: why do some children struggle to make sense of...