Punish me - I like it
I have just read your coverage about the exemplary punishment inflicted by the London School of Economics on Satoshi Kanazawa for the silly claim that black women are genetically uglier than other...
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Only limiting the damage?
Both the debates about David Starkey's Newsnight appearance (THE passim) and the work of Satoshi Kanazawa are being discussed in terms of professionalism and whether academics are entitled to express...
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Film review: Mademoiselle Chambon
Duncan Wu finds drama in the smallest gesture in a finely nuanced account of an unexpected passion
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TV review: Hilary Mantel: A Culture Show Special
Hilary Mantel's work is suffused with undercurrents and with what might have been, says Gary Day
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Anna Siewierska, 1955-2011
Anna Siewierska was best known in academic circles for her work in linguistic typology, but her colleagues also remember her excellent hosting skills, her friendly nature and her love of hiking and...
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THE Scholarly Web
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Campus round-up
University of East AngliaLiquid hunches are not enoughDehydration is a severe problem for the elderly, causing confusion and falls and making hospital admission more likely, yet it is not always easy...
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Odds and quads
This 18-carat gold cigarette case belonged to Harry Price (1881-1948), a writer, amateur conjuror and ghost hunter who, in 1923, set up the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, in order "to...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
? Irish travellers, left-wing activists, European "anarchists" and human rights lawyers: the story about an illegal traveller encampment at Dale Farm in Essex has proved manna from heaven for the...
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From where I sit - Not all the leaves are brown
AB 131, the second half of the proposed legislation popularly known as the California Dream Act, is currently awaiting final ratification. If approved, it will give undocumented Californian residents...
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Appointments
Social Policy AssociationSue DuncanSue Duncan, who was the UK's first chief government social researcher, has been named the new president of the UK Social Policy Association. Professor Duncan, who...
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Stapel diet of fraud
Miles Hewstone discusses a heinous data-faking scandal and the lessons that must be learned to stop the ‘betrayers of the truth’
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Leader: Good luck, you'll really need it
The back-to-campus jitters will be more pronounced than ever because, in this year of tumult, no one knows what lies ahead
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Research intelligence - When predicting winners, it pays to follow the papers trail
Nobel prize forecasts for 2011 utilise highly referenced 'citation laureates'. Paul Jump reports