Master sitting pretty again
Marcel Breuer, Architect
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Lunar puzzle that has clues but no answers
The Mystery of the Moon Illusion
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an essay by an American with transcendental tendencies: "Our age is retrospective. It builds the...
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Using Uri to get into J. C.'s head
The Mind Made Flesh
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Young journey from ga-ga to grammar
Pathways to Language
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No sign yet of that smoking gun
Brave New Brain - In Search of Madness
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We owe a lot to flip-flops and Frisbees
A Brain for All Seasons
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A strong brew with no sweeteners
The Developing Brain
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Reflecting on artful tricks of the trade
Secret Knowledge
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Fuzzy theories and daft expressions
The Cradle of Thought
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Laurie Taylor column
God dammit. Maureen! MAUREEN! Do you know what the devil has happened to my first-year welcoming speech? What might it be filed under? Maureen. I've told you before. Don't sound so damned imperious....
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Leader: Three into two does not go for degree courses
US universities swear by them, and they have been making apparently unstoppable progress in the UK for more than a decade. So why are some universities abandoning semesters to return to a three-term...
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Leader: Party talk offers little hope to universities
Universities worried by the gloomy signals over their budgets for the next three years will hardly have been reassured by events in Blackpool this week. The Labour Party conference theme of "schools...
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'Doom soon' scenarios: pollution, germ war, scalar disaster and mistakes with mice
How will the Earth expire? John Leslie ponders how we might precipitate our demise. Our galaxy contains many billion sun-like stars. Our telescopes see details of many billion further galaxies....