Facing up to emotion
Aisling Irwin, continuing our series on the intellectual impact of Darwinism, talks to psychologist Paul Ekman and discovers how he was inspired by the Victorian biologist to classify the facial...
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In praise of unknown metre maids
David Charter reports on the critical rediscovery of long-neglected women poets. Wordsworth's wandering lonely days are over. The image of the solitary Romantic hero, busy communing with nature and...
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Muddle through just won't do
How much will a new Labour government - if we get one - want to reform the education reforms made by the Tories? All the talk is about the acceptability or otherwise of schools reform, especially the...
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Sacred cows' herd instincts
Critical theory, claims one former adherent, is now so dominant in English faculties that it has become the new orthodoxy and a real threat to academic freedom. The debate over the ascendancy of...
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Tiger burning bright
Now that the dust has settled on the Malaysian general election it is possible to take stock of how the country is faring in its race to join that highly successful group known as the tigers of the...
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Don's Diary
Saturday. Try to resist ethnic stereotyping as I wait patiently in the queue for passport control at Sheremetyevo airport, having arrived on time thanks to Lufthansa. Begin to adjust to Russian...
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Language barks up the same tree
Mark Pagel ("Speaking Your Mind", THES, July 7) sets out some important reasons why we should prize the world's current diversity of living languages. It is true that the process of learning a...
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Good at sport and clever
Sports scholarships should only be awarded to those also able enough to do a degree, argues Huw Richards Perhaps the first task of Roger Bannister's working party on sports scholarships should be to...
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Unharmed by fear of death
Regarding "Perspective" (THES, July 14), I do not suffer from "chronic metaphysical fear of death". Does this mean by John Webester's argument that my early demise would not harm me? M. J. PHYTHIAN...
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Doctors on the move
Karen Mac Gregor's article (THES, May 19) on doctors leaving South Africa, perpetuates a perception rather than reporting established facts. A study, published in the South African Medical Journal in...
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Visitor to rule on v-c's power
Norman Dombey, in dispute with his vice chancellor, asks whether the ancient office of visitor can copewith today's conflicts. The University College of Sussex Ltd. was established as a limited...
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On safari from the patient zoo
How refreshing to find Peter Richards, of the rapidly evolving Imperial College School of Medicine (THES, July 7), questioning "how far a large school was good for undergraduate teaching". The...
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Prague springboard
What Mark Corner says about the Charles University in Prague ("Waiting for the Czech" THES, July 14) sounds so familiar to me after my own two years there in the late 1970s that I do not doubt its...
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Merger at the ministry
The merger of the Employment Department with the Department for Education has raised issues and unearthed prejudices. As Geoffrey Holland writes "unless the two are integrated, the change is not...
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Merger at the ministry
Geoffrey Holland is right to point out that a key feature of the Department of Employment's structure that will be inherited by the new combined department is the regional office network. The...