How to... get a seminar group to sizzle
WHAT : Tutors often find it an uphill struggle to get students to open up in group debate about their studies and ideas WHY : Kate Exley argues that getting students to help set the ground rules can...
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Healthy marriage is on the rocks
Teaching and research are the perfect pair, not foes, Stephen Rowland insists. The argument for a divorce between teaching and research comes in various forms, but its logic boils down to this: some...
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Snowballing, but still very much in control
Real Science
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First impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by an author who snooped around the seedy streets of criminal Chicago: " The Treloar Building was, and is,...
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Priests stumbling on the mysteries
Almost like a Whale - The Sacred Depths of Nature
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From hominids to blind dolphins
The Indus River
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Something to get in a flap about
The Biomechanics of Insect Flight
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The nothing machine
Evolutionary Genetics
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Time to work on your fitness
Darwinian Dynamics
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When it comes to sex, we're just like the other animals
Why Sex Matters
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Making a case for brain gain
Neural Transplantation
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Why change has not taken a rest
Children of Prometheus
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Laurie Taylor
We have decided to change our name and visual identity to one that is more representative of our organisation as it is today and in the future. Our new name and visual identity will be launched on...
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A dirtier shade of green
Earth in the Balance - Al Gore