Defining time waits for no one
Time flies like an arrow. A simple enough sentence, until Glasgow University professor Simon Garrod points out that it has at least 48 different meanings. "Time" can be a noun or a verb, as in "to...
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Tempest predicts pests
Farmers battling against crop pests will soon be helped by a new device which can predict pest outbreaks. The Tempest pest predictor has been developed by Peter Langley, the manager of Insect...
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Sound of muzak can often grate
Shops and restaurants which play music in a bid to attract customers should heed a warning note from Leicester University: the wrong music can be worse than no music at all. Although there is...
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Fascists march on to the Internet
Fascists and far-right groups are increasingly using the Internet to communicate with each other, according to Mike Whine, of the board of directors of British Jews. Speaking at a conference on the...
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No train strain for French
France's high-speed train, the TGV, flashes daily across the country at up to 200mph (320kph) and has been sold to Spain for its AVE line. Britain's counterpart, the APT, sits in sidings at the...
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A waste of 20:20 foresight
Predicting presidents is a hazardous business which political scientists often avoid, but Robert Elgie now regrets not going into print several months ago with his views on the French presidential...
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Satellite launch boost for UK
The United Kingdom's environmental scientists will reap huge dividends from the European satellite, ERS-2, due for launch last night. The satellite will watch changes in the earth's seas and...
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Criminal conundrum spawns retribution
Government rhetoric about crime prevention has not been matched by action, but there has been an impact at local level. Adam Edwards, research officer at the centre for the study of public order at...
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Broken dreams
Aberdeen University is planning a parachute jump by 500 students as part of its quincentenary celebrations. But there has been some alarm at the discovery of statistics showing that this will result...
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Gender pioneer
Dundee University, which is setting up Scotland's first chair in gender relations, also boasts the first woman to hold a chair in a Scottish University. Margaret Fairlie, a pioneer user of radium who...
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Acronym angst
The Campaign for Release from an Acronym-Sodden Society, CRASS, has awarded its April wooden spoon to Bradford University's planned European programme of environmental education, the Module on...
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Quantum leap
More popular than the paperback version of Edith Wharton's The Buccaneers, and nearly as popular as Interview with the Vampire, is a book by an Open University professor which reached the top ten in...
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Psychological blow
Students will be alarmed to hear that the man who discovered that they cheat frequently has been appointed president of the British Psychological Society. Stephen Newstead, professor of psychology at...
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Ceilidh of death
Geneticists worried that their latest conference, "The Genetics of Death", held in Glasgow, might be too depressing to bear, organised "a variant on a traditional Scottish entertainment" to liven...
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Keeping suite
Colleges Employers Forum chief executive Roger Ward wishes his good standing abroad would trickle back to the folks at home. Far from the noise of his protest-surrounded bunker in Oxford Street, and...