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The Greeks and Greek Love
Simon Goldhill is stimulated by a spunky new take on Greek male relations.
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A Life Decoded - My Genome: My Life
The ability to sequence the human genome is providing one of the most important opportunities in biomedical research in this new century. It will lead to the development of effective therapies for...
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The Virtual Life of Film
To say that David Rodowick's essay is a continuation in print of confessions and polemics that have been taking place for nearly a decade wherever film and media scholars gather is not intended as a...
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What Is Intelligence? Beyond the Flynn Effect
In analysing ever rising IQ scores, the man who gave his name to the phenomenon treads a fine line between wishful thinking and objective empiricism, says Wendy Johnson.
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Print Is Dead: Books in our Digital Age
Tara Brabazon
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Published this week
ArtAnarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde. By Allan Antliff, assistant professor of art history, University of Alberta. Chicago University Press, £23.00. ISBN...
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Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Nigel Barley explores a great British institution.
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The week in books
Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Extermination, 1939-45 by Saul Friedländer. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £30.00, ISBN 978297818779 "Friedlander's (1939 Club chair in Holocaust studies, University...
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First Impressions competition: January 10 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a philosopher and meteorologist: “An octopus?”Entries, including postal address, should be sent to...
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Published this week 2
EngineeringContinuous Signals and Systems with MATLAB, Second editionBy Taan S. El Ali, professor of engineering at Benedict College, Columbia, and Mohammad A. Karim, vice-president for research at...
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Suitors sought for overlooked but loaded LoLas
The BBSRC wants academics alert to the potential of its multimillion-pound long-term grants.
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Grant winners
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council- Award winner: John Wood- Institution: University College London- Value:£3.6 millionTransgenic approaches to sensory neuron function- Award...
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On the front line
Brian Hoskins, the new director of Imperial's Grantham Institute, looks ahead to the climate-change challenge.