For the record
From lab demonstrator to vice-chancellor Kel Fidler (pictured) has been appointed vice-chancellor of Northumbria University. The professor of electronics at the University of York will take over from...
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Alison McNab looks at the best e-solutions for keeping pace with news, research and publications without spending hours scouring the internet. Online access to primary and secondary sources...
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Tardy zealots told to shed weight
The Problem of Unpublished Excavations
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Smoother view of life
France in Focus
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Under the skin of the ordinary
Embracing The World
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In a time of Twaddell
Chemistry, Society and Environment
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Sugar cane and other tasty tips on empire building
Nature's Government
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Hannibal's fire is proof that Pliny was hot stuff
Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology
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Gurus not Saussure about their idol's work
Jacques Guy analyses a half-hearted debunking of linguistic tin gods. Roy Harris, former professor of general linguistics at Oxford, has published extensively about Ferdinand de Saussure, the Swiss...
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Minor roles eclipse stars
Zoetrope
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, has a title that might well describe its famously curmudgeonly author: "What's he like?" The winner receives a...
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Refried hits for laughs
Film Parody
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More than monkey business
Solly Zuckerman
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An angel, a conman, a conjuror and kidney stones
The Queen's Conjuror