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Blindness in pursuit of science
A Companion to the Philosophy of Science
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Whimsical warriors wage war with words
The Song of the Earth
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Positively relying on hot air
Victorian Writing about Risk
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Waste adopts that community spirit
Urban Recycling
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Naive West pats itself on back
Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity - Hotspots
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Do the work, you're due a reward
In the third of our series on intellectual property issues, Danny Quah tells Alison Goddard how the profit motive can drive innovation. Hard-nosed commercialism is no bad thing in universities, says...
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Stalin's greatest secret
Five years in a gulag camp gave Roman Brackman a reason to find out what motivated Russia's ruthless dictator to ruin so many lives I have spent many years searching for the "real" Stalin - for the...
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Stirred into action by political apathy
What led to protesters attacking Starbucks and setting light to cars? A loss of faith in democracy, says Noreena Hertz. Mandy Garner reports. Noreena Hertz has always been precocious. At three years...
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Wake up and smell the (fair trade) coffee, Mr President
Globalisation has much to offer our society, argues Grazia Ietto-Gillies, but it requires responsible governance if we are to reverse the trends of third-world exploitation and environmental damage...
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Latest UK news
Poor pay threatens UK science PhD stipends at £9,000 are far too low, while pay and conditions for postdoctoral scientists are so bad they threaten the United Kingdom’s science base, according to a...
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Latest international news
Medical schools branded exclusive Ontario's medical schools have been labelled ghettos for the rich after a survey at the University of Western Ontario showed that the family incomes of students&...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Myriad Genetics, Oracle and Hitachi have formed an alliance to map all the proteins in the human body in less than three years - a task that was expected to take decades. Researchers...
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Latest international news
Chilean ministry accused of funding bungle Accusations that the education ministry is mishandling the allocation of funding to private universities were denied by the Chilean government...
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Latest UK news
Luton graduates are more employable Luton University produces more employable graduates than the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, according to employment indicators published today. Every home-...