Profit in diversity
It is next to impossible to assess the true overall value of a species," Norman Myers writes in his review this week of a clutch of books on biodiversity (pages 22-28). We cannot tell what may come...
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Urging a natural enmity
Biological pest control is backing the farmers' struggle against those age-old adversaries, mites, locusts and mealybugs. Tunde Fatunde reports One of the world's leading centres for biological...
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Jeux sans frontieres
This week The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S debate on Darwinism moves to its impact on subjects outside biology. Here Kam Patel talks to psychologist David Buss (below). Overleaf Tim Ingold considers the relevance to...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk Cancer Research Campaign 10 Cambridge Terrace London NW1 4JL Tel:...
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The $64m helix
The Golden Helix - Genetic Engineering
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A 'post' man on his rounds
The Meanings of Mass Higher Education
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Into the minds of management
Lucy Hodges talks to Erica Shoenberger, (right) a geographer who believes that corporate decisions have as much to do with boardroom culture as economic facts. Erica Schoenberger's favourite reading...
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The tragedy of a yellow mist and cloudedjudgement
Learning from Disaster:
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Slaves to the labour saving idea
The Machine in America - Futile Progress - The End of the Future
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Cuddly capitalism
Capitalism With Morality - Real Freedom For All - The World After Communism - Economic Democracy - Passions and Constraints
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Bell tolls for science
The Wellcome Trust, in justifying its decision to fund more research outside the United Kingdom, uses a motley collection of arguments: some research in biomedical sciences is better done elsewhere:...
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Get to know your tool kit
Financial Calculus
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How deep is ecology?
Steering Business Toward Sustainability - Environmental Economics - State of the World - Vital Signs 1995-1996 - Environmental Policy and Industrial Innovation - Green, Inc. - Re-Enchanting Humanity...
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To Russia, with thanks
Why the Allies Won
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Complex debate spoiled by hype
Michael Harrison defends his university's approach. The headline "Second best degree risk" (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, April 28) and the Higher Education Quality Council chief executive's "timebomb for the Government"...