Eyes to the sky for holy thought
God's Equation
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A last word on the Führer and Third Reich
Hitler, 1936-1945
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Molecules, candy and microwaves
The New Chemistry
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Surveying a monumental landscape from the shoulders of giants
Proteins, Enzymes, Genes
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is a genial tale of a German tour by an idle fellow: "'What we want,' said Harris, 'is a change.'"...
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Laurie Taylor column
SENIOR DON RIGGED RESULTS - SHOCK CHARGE Media studies academics across the country are reeling from the news that one of their senior colleagues, Dr Piercemuller of Poppleton University, has been...
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Letter: Chewing over Gum(1)
Fay Weldon's tilt at political philosophy does not amount to a hill of beans ("Towards a grand universal morality", Millennium Magazine , THES, December 22/29). Our godless age has, she argues, so...
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Letter: Chewing over Gum(2)
Congratulations on that spoof first-year essay by Fay Weldon. J. C. O'Neill Edinburgh
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Letter: Our very own RAE of sunshine
It never ceases to amaze me that academics continue to attack the research assessment exercise ("Poisonous exercises", THES, December 22/29). For those who enter the profession because research is...
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Letter: BAT funding at Notts(1)
Reactions to the decision of the university to accept British American Tobacco funding for its business school have ranged from moral condemnation to an acceptance of economic pragmatism in relation...
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Letter: BAT funding at Notts(2)
You really know how to spoil a guy's Christmas. I bet Sir Colin Campbell has already been on to his lawyers about the "correction" (Letters, THES, December 22/29) affirming that the word "clever" is...
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Letter: Tests and terrorists(1)
Your article on legislation to limit terrorist activities by extreme animal rights groups ("Law fails to assure animal researchers", THES, December 15) will be welcomed by scientists who live in fear...
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Letter: Tests and terrorists(2)
It is because of their failure to persuade the public of their cause that the animal rights extremists have resorted to campaigns of violence and intimidation. It is unacceptable that medical...
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Letter: Herts course cutting
At the University of Hertfordshire, in social sciences, one of four areas closing ("Hertfordshire faces legal action over course closures", THES,December 15), three staff left last summer and six are...
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Letter: Not in Kansas
John Radford's responses to the criticism of his earlier letter (Letters, THES, December 15) simply reiterate that males happen to do better on the most commonly used tests of mathematics than...