The ghost in the machine
Most of us are intrigued by our own consciousness. But reading recent books written by eminent people leaves us baffled by what seems to be a demarcation dispute. The explanation of human...
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Suffer little children ...
Developmental psychologists have had a good press this century. Generally avoiding most Freudian excesses, they have established acceptable, clear guidelines covering the normal stages of physical,...
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The code breaker
Sometimes a scientist's career lifts like a surfer catching a wave. A combination of ripe problems and apt techniques appears at just the right time, and someone who was drifting is off, riding the...
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The colonel, the PR man and the MP
In the current furore over the outside interests of Members of Parliament, and in particular over their connections with lobbying firms, it is worth recalling that it was Colonel Papadopoulos, the...
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Practising law with a provisional licence
Academia is not for the faint-hearted: constructionists are knocked down by deconstructionists, structuralists are challenged by poststructuralists, feminists are attacked by revisionist feminists,...
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Charities warn lottery will hit donations
Research funding charities are predicting a big drop in income starting this week when the national lottery is launched. The National Kidney Research Fund and the Kidney Foundation, which between...
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Status bid by colleges queried
Vice chancellors have been unable to come to an agreement on what to do about colleges which use the word "university" in their titles. Instead, a council meeting of the Committee of Vice Chancellors...
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Light fingers
(Photograph) - Light fingers: Caught Shoplifting, a painting by John Smith, a student at Loughborough College of Art and Design, was part of the backdrop for the Blackburn Lectures, given at...
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Mongolian memories
(Photograph) - Mongolian memories: Ts Tsegmid, principal of Ulaanbaatar college of art in Mongolia, shows a traditional painting from an exhibition of Mongolian fine art at Wimbledon School of Art.
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A question of value for money
As Budget Day approaches there have been the usual leaks about fights within the Cabinet over public expenditure cuts. The two alleged victims are social security and education. This is bad news for...
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Chairs
QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE The following titles have been conferred on: P. A. R. Ade (reader in physics) professor of experimental physics; R. Bonnett (professor of inorganic chemistry) Scotia...
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Grants
ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL. Research grants Dr J. R. F. Walters, Pounds 114,808 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (cellular control of the expression on...
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Awards
Lakatos Award 1994 Michael Dummett, emeritus professor of logic, University of Oxford, has been awarded the Lakatos Award for his book Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics, by the London School of...
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Events
Colour And Line. Five centuries of woodcuts will be on show at the Hunterian Art Gallery until January 28. An illustrated catalogue is available. The woodcuts include the English artist John Baptist...
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Appointments
TIMES SUPPLEMENTS Steven Lucy has been appointed to the newly created position of deputy advertisement director to the Times Supplements. Previously, Mr Lucy was recruitment sales manager of the...