Grandad, we love you
Erasmus Darwin
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A mission to display and convert
Nature's Museums
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Profound and entertaining demonstrations that the eyes have it
A Natural History of Vision
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Values in scientific ventures
Mystery of Mysteries
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The sad tale of Einstein's blinkered polar partner
Einstein's German World
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First Impressions
This week's competition comes from a novel that is true, up to a point: " While still a young man, John Courtney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, 'achieved an assured and enviable position in...
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules for programmes of academic interest. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Politicians experiencing first-hand what they pontificate about - that's the idea...
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Why learning to destroy is learning to enjoy
Once the realm of techie males, engineering is at last attracting female students. And it's all thanks to an aggressive TV show, Robot Wars. Anne Sebba reports When Mike Duke, senior lecturer in...
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The building of a time machine
Charles Babbage staked everything on his attempt to build the first computer, and lost. Overcoming similar problems, Doron Swade is about to meet the Babbage challenge 150 years on A few years ago a...
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A new stage in Greek tragedy
When Fiona Shaw played Electra in 1982, the audience was moved to tears. Can we learn more from such a performance than we can from studying a play's text? Jennifer Wallace reports on an emerging...
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A varied syllabus with nothing at its core
In the future, lecturers in English will be reduced to teaching grammar to economists and engineers, predicts Valentine Cunningham in the second of our series on subjects after the year 2000 English...
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Tuition cost hits assistants' purse
The University of Toronto's 2,500 teaching assistants are starting their semester on the picket line. They are joining colleagues at McMaster University in nearby Hamilton who have been on strike...
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Islamic links
The Encyclopaedia of Islam is available on CD-Rom and makes use of cross-referencing hyperlinks previously unseen in electronic publishing. It contains indexes with hyperlinks to main text and allows...
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V-cs submit to quality blueprint
Vice-chancellors and principals have caved in over plans for reporting the quality of university teaching, accepting a blueprint they condemned as "unacceptable" just weeks ago. The climbdown by the...
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Unions demand 46 days' leave minimum
Scottish unions and management are poised for a crunch meeting on Wednesday in a bid to stave off potential disruption at seven institutions. The management at Scotland's five new universities, Queen...