Dereks get the horns
There is nothing bizarre about the seductive effects of Maurice Ravel's Bolero, but it has little to do with Torvill and Dean's use of it at the 1984 Winter Olympics (The week in higher education, 1...
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Skyscraper's the limit for furious NYU academics
University plans to expand in Greenwich Village have sparked a grass-roots revolt, finds Ian Wylie
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Alan Harrison, 1944-2012
A successful industrialist who went on to become an academic expert on operations management has died.Alan Harrison was born in Oxfordshire on 25 November 1944 and educated at Abingdon School before...
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THE Scholarly Web
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Campus round-up
Goldsmiths/ExeterPluck of the IrishHistorians have set up a website to highlight Irish involvement in the First World War. The site includes a list of the war dead mentioned on family graves in...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
? It seems not even vice-chancellors are impervious to the worldwide pop sensation that is Gangnam Style - the infectious chart-topping hit from South Korean artist PSY. An internet video of a flash...
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V-c spotting
They may (almost) all be white men in suits but that doesn’t mean that all vice-chancellors are the same, says Jack Grove. So which tribe does your v-c belong to?
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Leader: The self-censor may not hold
New-found restraint over research council applications should be praised but will it survive further funding cuts?
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From Where I Sit - No Act of philistinism
A recent issue of Time magazine was devoted to "Reinventing College". Several full-page advertisements celebrated "Milestones in the History of US 糖心Vlog". Partially funded by the Bill and...
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The Particle at the End of the Universe: The Hunt for the Higgs and the Discovery of a New World
From postulation to discovery: Frank Close weighs up an accessible account of the Higgs boson
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Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccuping, and Beyond
It may be better in than out, but as social animals we can’t help ourselves, Tristan Bekinschtein finds
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After Art
We live “under the conditions of image saturation”, writes Yale University art historian David Joselit, who argues, after Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory, that images, “through the capacity for...
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Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale
Gradually, much of the scaffolding of the influential, but historically inaccurate, depiction of British opinion during the First World War, reflected in countless novels as well as older historical...
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Making the European Monetary Union
Kathleen McNamara on the technocracy that created the EMU - and its current malaise