Manic maths
Delegates at the Tenth World Congress on Psychiatry in Madrid this week learned of the schizophrenia Nobel laureate John Nash of MIT suffered for 15 years. While denying a direct relationship between...
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Tobacco roadblock
The Medical Research Council was criticised this week for accepting money from the tobacco giant British American Tobacco. BAT has given Pounds 147,000 to the MRC to research whether nicotine is...
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Former space institute picks star pupils
Perestroika and the end of the Cold w/ar brought little comfort to Russia's regional universities where a bias towards the military-industrial complex had always ensured comfortable sinecures for...
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Case for currency quiz
Two recent reviews (THES, July 26 and August 2) contribute illuminatingly to the vital debate on a single currency. However, they both describe negatively those who oppose a single currency as prone...
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Our time-less lives
The feel-good factor hasn't returned, so we are told, because job insecurity is still widespread. But Ray Pahl, continuing our series on work and the family, believes it is also because our fractured...
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Mice gene hailed as HIV breakthrough
A gene that protects mice from their equivalent of HIV infection has been discovered by British scientists. The discovery has raised the tantalising possibility of a similar gene being present in...
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Research's damaging split
The research assessment exercise has "disempowered" 60 per cent of researchers and led to a damaging split between research and teaching, according to a study to be presented at an international...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service, Thesis, is to provide the Internet presence for Sir Ron Dearing's National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education. From mid-September, users will be able to find out...
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Art cause needs a finer finish
Fine art conservation skills are in urgent need of care and attention. "Something that worked perfectly well is being brought to its knees," warns Caroline Villers of the department of conservation...
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Scholarly books hard-pressed
Canada's 58 English-language scholarly presses are printing about 10 per cent fewer books than last year because of the squeeze on public subsidies. Author and political analyst Jeremy Webber says...
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Second class
Hopefully no one from the international postal commission will have spotted that Derek Quintock managed to send a postcard from Malaysia (THES, August 9) using a stamp from Sri Lanka. Was the irony...
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Beastly burdens
It is absurd to assign rights to animals, argues Roger Scruton in response to the 'moral humbug' of his critics. Recent correspondence prompts me to add to the argument of my article about why the...
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Cash call for dying species
Many natural history collections, especially in the tropics, will soon be lost forever unless money is made available for developing countries to preserve them. Richard Leakey, wildlife biologist and...
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Opposition may block Oz change
Proposed changes to Australia's Higher Education Contribution Scheme could be blocked if opposition parties decide to use their majority in the senate. The Labor Party, the Australian Democrats and...
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Nurses' courses in fast lane
A flood of courses in advanced nursing, often at masters degree level, may be appearing too quickly, even before a consensus has been reached about what "advanced nursing" is, a conference will hear...