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World rulers who left big footprints
Dinosaur Tracks
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Get the bug, get a buzz
Insects through the Seasons - The Wisdom of the Hive
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Online business service aims for global reach
An online business information service that links to around 6,000 sources has been launched by News International, owners of the Times Supplements, and DataTimes corporation. The THES will shortly...
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Net video comes of age
Students and tutors, employers and interviewees, manufacturers and their academic customers are talking face to face regardless of distance, as higher education begins to find real uses for the long-...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. The devastating impact of last year's Budget on university finance has intensified my own institution's clamour for outside funding. Every cloud has a silver lining, and as a result I now...
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Chairs
THE ROYAL SOCIETY. The following research professorships have been appointed: Gerard Evan, principal scientist and head of biochemistry of the cell nucleus laboratory at the Imperial Cancer Research...
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Not drowning. . .
Your whole academic life flashes past you: the successes, the failures, the good marks and the bad. Soon this will be an everyday experience for students at the University of North London, where...
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Get the bug, get a buzz,Books
INSECTS THROUGH THE SEASONS, By Gilbert Waldbauer, Harvard University Press, 289pp, Pounds 15.95, ISBN 0 674 45488 X. THE WISDOM OF THE HIVE: THE SOCIAL PHYSIOLOGY OF HONEY BEE COLONIES, By Thomas D...
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Knees up
(Photograph) - Uneven floors and vertical walls are no obstacle for a remote-controlled robot with spider-like legs, vacuum grippers and the ability to feel intelligently for footholds. Bing Luk (...
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Colliding articles
The row over physicist Alan Sokal's spoof paper in the cultural studies journal Social Text (The THES, June 7) continues. The THES will publish a reply from one of the journal's editors next week....
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Writers' blocs lose the old plot
New forms of narrative that use interactive technology are being researched in Nottingham. A research project at Nottingham Trent University is exploring and utilising cyberspace as a home for new...
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Grants
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. Research grants Professor R. Poole, Pounds 182,676 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (regulation of respiratory metabolism in the free-living...
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Euro project targets Web for radical overhaul
A pan-European ECU3.3 million (Pounds 2.7m) project to make the World Wide Web a more usable system for researchers has just been launched. Among the 23 partners in DESIRE (Development of a European...
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Design centre
A new Computers in Teaching Initiative centre is now a rare event. The 23 existing centres, which offer advice on the use of information technology in higher education, already cover most academic...