US faculty face more stringent checks in wake of shooting
The killing of three academics at the University of Alabama could lead to controversial criminal background checks of lecturers. Jon Marcus reports
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ART AND DESIGN- Two Eyes of the Earth: Competition and Exchange in the Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian IranBy Matthew P. Canepa, assistant professor of art history, College of...
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Book of the week: Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy
A fresh look at an old controversy is revealing, finds Martin Cohen
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The War that Killed Achilles
Barbara Graziosi enjoys the clarity of a summary of the Iliad but finds some comparisons narrow
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Nanoethics: Big Ethical Issues with Small Technology
Biotechnology, and nanotechnology in particular, "raises moral questions that are not simply difficult in the familiar sense but are of an altogether different kind". So quotes, approvingly, Donal O'...
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The Canon: Nikolai Gogol. By Vladimir Nabokov
What a happy task to be asked to choose a definitive title from one's "personal canon". I recommend Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol. Written in 1944, this little book about the 19th-century Russian writer...
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Don't Be Such a Scientist
Kevin Fong reaches an uncomfortable realisation that science communicators need to improve
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A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age
A brilliant but troubled young physicist, in the same league of achievement as Einstein, boards a ship in Palermo on a spring night in 1938, passport and cash in hand. He is soon assumed dead,...
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The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa
It's a very contemporary scenario. Young soldiers face a hostile and alien environment full of Muslim insurgents with inadequate equipment. Military aims are unclear. On a remote front line, mission...
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Odds and quads
This dried lizard, stuck to the pages of a letter, was posted by the 12-year-old William Rathbone VIII (1880-1941) to his elder sister "Tot" (Elena).Writing from his boarding school in Broadstairs,...
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What's in a name? Nothing good, AUA members argue
Organisation's full title unpopular with rank and file, but rebrand is unlikely. John Morgan reports
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'Frankensite' monsters loom as universities lose control of content
Warning that incoherent online offerings could cause reputational damage. Hannah Fearn writes
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Overseas Briefing
United StatesIvy League cutbacksFinancial hardship has prompted an Ivy League institution to lay off staff and cut back on scholarships for students. Dartmouth College has announced that it will axe...
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'Independence', at a price: it's better to be Red than led
Communist influence is non-negotiable for UK's Chinese outposts. Melanie Newman writes
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Internal affairs
Tom Ford's glossy foray into film has moments to admire, not least its leading man, writes Duncan Wu