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UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH Rod Blackshaw, former principal scientific officer with the department of agriculture for Northern Ireland, professor of agricultural zoology and head of agriculture and food...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF KENT The University of Kent has a new chancellor: Sir Crispin Tickell, the former diplomat who is now warden of Green College, Oxford. At one time our permanent representative at the...
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Can machines ever be conscious?
Igor Aleksander believes they can; Jaron lanier disagrees Can machines be conscious? "I should co-co! You should see my new video recorder. Set it up to record Neighbours and it gives you the early...
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Flick and press squeezes
The article by David Cesarani was confused and confusing - one's strong impression was that it was written merely to have his name publicly associated with this controversy. In line with Oxford...
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Endearing to all sides
Careful advance briefing and careful gathering of long-circulated ideas secured a smooth passage for Sir Ron Dearing's report on 16-19 qualifications published this week. It contains few surprises;...
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The bad language carriers
How we learn to speak is a mystery. Myrna Gopnik claims to have found a gene which transmits bad grammar. Over 100 ago Charles Darwin speculated that language was an "instinct". Evidence suggests...
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The bad language carriers
How we learn to speak is a mystery. Myrna Gopnik claims to have found a gene which transmits bad grammar. The language gene is the holy grail of linguistics. Find that, and you are up there with...
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Catcher of the wry
American campus chronicler Alison Lurie talks to Tim Cornwell. The first tale in Alison Lurie's last book, a volume of short stories, Women and Ghosts, features a professor named Gregor Spiegelman....
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Press clanger
Cambridge University Press's decision not to publish Anastasia Karakasidou's Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood sets an alarming precedent, argues Richard Clogg. That "Macedonia" is the word for a fruit...
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Faith, hope and parity
Simon Lee tells Simon Targett why he gave up a law chair to run a higher education institute. It was like old times. As soon as the IRA returned to London, Simon Lee was back on the radio. After...
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Bird brain clue to memory riddle
A study of chicks' eating tastes has identified a molecule that affects their memory, which could provide a breakthrough in the quest to treat Alzheimer's disease. We are our memories. In old age we...
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Death in the air
As the nation's fears focus on contaminated beef, one scientist believes he has identified another threat to public health - overhead power lines. Since Channel Four's Dispatches programme reported...
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The follies Bayrou
Translation has always been recognised as a difficult endeavour. There is an old Italian saying "traduttore, traditore", which equates it to treason. This is because every word is spoken or written...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. 10am. Meet Julie in the gym. Commiserate about the frustrations of life as contract researchers. Julie's contract ends in five months, mine in two months. Row, cycle and jog while thinking...
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Union mergers make sense for all staff
Higher education is at a crossroads and the need for cooperation between trade unions in higher education has never been more pressing. With unions spanning academic and related support staff, a...