Variations on the same meme
I would support Robert Aunger's call for evidence for the meme hypothesis - except that even this seems a category mistake. Meme theory seems at best an analogy, which, of course, cannot be proved or...
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Variations on the same meme
If, as Susan Blackmore says, ideas survive by natural selection as "memes", is the theory of memes itself also a meme? If it is, it cannot be a scientific one because it would in that case be...
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League games
You were obviously annoyed by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service denying you easy access to information that UCAS stakeholders (as represented on the board) have declared as...
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New life in e-books
Academics cannot get their books published. Is electronic publishing the answer? asks Robert Darnton Are scholarly monographs -learned treatises on specific subjects - in danger of extinction,...
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Water war against hormones
Ulster University researchers are using a harmless, cheap white pigment found in toothpaste in a revolutionary technique for removing the female sex hormone oestrogen from the water supply. Oestrogen...
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Drop in homicide rate probed
Historians at York University are trawling 200 years of court records to understand the decline in homicide rates in the 17th century. According to Jim Sharpe, professor of history at York, homicide...
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Bid to stop suicides
Universities and colleges need to be more open about the risk of student suicide and self-harm to overcome the stigma attached to seeking help. The advice is in a report presented this week to the...
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Ion mountain
(Photograph) - Ion mountain: spectacularly rendered by Glasgow printmaker Murray Robertson, this 3D computer plot of ionisation energies is part of Visual Elements, an art-science collaboration...
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Net speeds to next level
The high-speed internet moved a stage closer last week with the demonstration in the United States of virtual surgery, broadcast-quality video and terabyte-size data library transfers over a national...
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Copy deal embraces scanning
Lecturers creating electronic course packs will be able to clear copyright on material scanned in from printed books and journals, under a licensing scheme launched last week by the Copyright...
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On the move
John Hayward, principal of the University of Durham's Stockton campus, will take up the new full-time post of provost at Stockton on August 1. He has resigned from his post as registrar and secretary...
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Brian Fender
'His time at the Institut Laue-Langevin not only made him a keen francophile, it convinced him of the importance of European contacts for British institutions' This is the fourth year that Sir Brian...
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In search of a section
Is energy minister John Battle mad? Anarchic comedian Mark Thomas thinks so, and is trying to have the minister sectioned under the Mental Health Act to ensure public safety. Mr Thomas's latest stunt...
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Glittering prizes
John Maynard Smith, emeritus professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Sussex, has been awarded the Crafoord Prize by the Swedish Academy of Sciences, in particular for his work on game...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. It's sweaty in the studio here at City University. My students are making jingles for their news service on Sound Radio, a community station in Hackney. The backing track on the jingle...