What are you reading? 鈥 16 May 2019
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The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us about Science and Authority, by Robert P. Crease
Book of the week: Richard Joyner praises a bold attempt to get to grips with 鈥榮cience denial鈥
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Modernist Fraud: Hoax, Parody, Deception, by Leonard Diepeveen
Charlotte Jones considers the arguments that much pioneering modernist art and literature didn鈥檛 really deserve to be taken seriously
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Appointments 鈥 16 May 2019
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Chaucer: A European Life, by Marion Turner
Mary Wellesley is impressed by 鈥榓 new kind of biography鈥 of a giant of medieval literature
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Letters 鈥 16 May 2019
How should HE respond to climate change? Joanna Kidman makes a good point in her article 鈥淲e need to talk about climate change鈥 (Features, 9 May). Air travel, as well as travel by car, are major...
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Books interview: Beatrice Heuser
The author of Brexit in History: Sovereignty or a European Union?聽on聽extroversion and introversion, political decision making and Bohemian fairy tales
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Acting on principle: University of Cambridge is trying to live up to its values
For a few 鈥榮uper universities鈥, the amplifying effect of their brand turns independent incidents into powerful patterns in the public mind
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Chinese PhD students a risk to West in some fields, v-c warns
Former chief defence scientist of Australia says universities may be forced to bar Chinese nationals from conducting research in sensitive areas
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Want to be less stressed? Do some overtime (but not too much)
Study finds university staff who do up to 10 additional hours each week are more satisfied with their job, but doing more than this has a significant adverse effect
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Interview with Xavier Aldana Reyes
The literature expert on what Spain makes of the Gothic, what we can learn from 鈥榤ad scientists鈥 and struggles with his surname
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William Gray, 1952-2019
Tributes paid to 鈥榞entlemanly鈥 scholar of folklore, fairy tales and fantasy fiction
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Modern universities are not neoliberal 鈥 but many academics are
Successful publish-or-perish operators should look in the mirror before writing their next diatribe about marketisation, says Mike Marinetto
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Researching the things that go bump in the night
Matthew Reisz reflects on the advantages and disadvantages of detachment for those pursuing ghostly research