The signposts of the species
The Handbook of Symbolic Evolution
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Freudian slippery
Remembering Anna O
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The murder of hope?
As If
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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 voyage by an anthropologist who went to an enormous distance to prove his...
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Honorary degrees
University of Manchester DMus: Daniel Barenboim, pianist and conductor, musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Harrison Birtwistle, Henry Purcell professor of composition at Kings...
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Appointments
Southwark Cathedral David Peacock, pro rector of Roehampton Institute London and principal of Whitelands College, has been installed as honorary canon. Royal Northern College of Music Rosemary...
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Chairs
University of Wales College of Medicine K. G. Harding, director of the wound healing research unit, has been appointed chair in rehabilitation medicine (wound healing). University of Durham Promotion...
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Glitches in time
The millennium is a figment of the calendar - a human device which seeks to impose order on an essentially chaotic universe. Stephen Jay Gould ponders the history of time A few diehards, instead of...
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A papal plea for harmony
The Pope says it is time for Catholics to atone for their past sins, particularly 2,000 years of anti-Semitism. Paul Bompard reports Late last month, almost 400 academics and theologians gathered in...
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Guide to the moral maze
Sheila McLean tells Kate Worsley about her pioneering work on medical ethics and the law Glasgow is not famed for its warm weather, so when a nice day comes along the city seems to bask in it. Not...
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Kroto labels Blackstone worse than Tories
Tessa Blackstone outlines her vision of a transformed higher education system, Nobel prizewinner Sir Harry Kroto says that she is totally wrong about science. Science, including engineering and...
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Open all hours for the masses
Tessa Blackstone outlines her vision of a transformed higher education system Slowly, but relentlessly, the predominant view of education as the preparation of young people for adult life is being...
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The truth is out there, and so is Dr Radin
Was fear of the unknown behind the departure of a University of Nevada researcher probing psychic phenomena? Tim Cornwell investigates Cries of protest are making themselves heard at the University...
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Teaching: broader horizons
Cath Cotton talks to academics about breaking down barriers in the brave world of interdisciplinarity Anthropology at Roehampton Institute London: interdisciplinary teaching across social and natural...
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Mission drift in sub-degree sea
New universities fight their corner against FE A LOBBY group for the 1992 universities has slammed Dearing's call for more sub-degree work in further education colleges. Responding to Sir Ron Dearing...