Phase space: the fluid frontier
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Signals of the times
Phase-Locked Loops
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White made strange
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a writer who was exceptionally candid about the first world war: "As proof of...
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Grants
The University of Liverpool Charities Professor G. Edwards and Mr C. Proudman, Pounds 66,000 from Home of Rest for Horses (residency in equine gastroenterology); Professor D. Eisner, Pounds 53,908...
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War trophy
(Photograph) - War trophy: campaigning journalist John Pilger, pictured in l978 with the caretaker of a Hanoi memorial, is honoured by Oxford Brookes.
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Chairs
University of North London. Keith Anderson, past president and fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology, has been appointed honorary visiting professor. Nene College of Higher Education...
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Fellowships
Royal Yachting Association The association has presented the British Nautical Award to a team comprising Jenny Anderson, Chris Edwards, Ian Harris and Tim Savill at Southampton Institute's maritime...
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Awards
International Mass Spectrometry Conference The J. J. Thomson Gold Medal was awarded at the 14th conference in Tampere, Finland, to David Games, head of chemistry and director of the mass spectrometry...
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Appointments
Standing Conference of Principals. Norman Taylor, director of the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, committee member of the Council for National Academic Awards, the National Advisory Body for Art...
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Honorary degrees
Oxford Brookes University DA: Anthony Smith, president of Magdalen College, Oxford, director of the British Film Institute (1979-88), trustee of the Writers and Scholars Educational Trust and the...
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Winning the prize but not the jackpot
Being awarded a Nobel prize brings recognition and acclaim, but not as much money as might be expected, Julia Hinde finds Buckyballs made Harry Kroto (left) famous beyond science circles - they...
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Watch on the Rhine?
The fall of the Berlin Wall did trigger a re-evaluation of German history, but it would be wrong to see in this a disturbing revival of nationalism, argues Richard Evans Eight years have passed since...
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Eminences grises' eminence grise
Harriet Swain talks to Charlie Bean, the LSE economist who has acted as tutor and adviser to Gordon Brown's Treasury team Screens are turning red at the Stock Exchange in London. The faces of dealers...
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In pursuit of a Baudrillard of ballet
Claire Neesham reports on the rise of dance as an intellectual discipline It is obvious that the Laban Centre in South London is a dance school. Young people hang around the reception area dressed in...