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- Cakes, Custard and Category Theory: Easy Recipes for Understanding Complex Maths https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/content/book-review-cakes-custard-and-category-theory-by-eugenia-cheng 10 comments
- Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/feature-germanys-great-tuition-fees-u-turn/2011168.fullarticle 521 comments
- Academics should stop doing free peer-review for non-open-access journals. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?c=1§ioncode=26&storycode=417576 89 comments
- Pecking order: What chickens teach us http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?c=1§ioncode=26&storycode=410238 5 comments
- Times Higher Education 2009: Top 200 World Universities http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/Rankings2009-Top200.html 7 comments
- The Master Algorithm: The Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine (One formula to rule them all) https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/review-the-master-algorithm-pedro-domingos-allen-lane 3 comments artificial
- Social sciences and humanities faculties to close in Japan after ministerial decree https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/social-sciences-and-humanities-faculties-close-japan-after-ministerial-decree 21 comments worldnews
- Kiss goodbye to freedom (Interview with Raymond Geuss) http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/403456.article 21 comments philosophy
- Hannah Arendt: thinking versus evil http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/hannah-arendt-thinking-versus-evil/2018664.fullarticle 5 comments philosophy
- Document uncovered exposes Stalin as former member of the Okhrana; the Tsarist secret police. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/stalins-greatest-secret/158643.article 15 comments history
- Is philosophy dead? http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/is-philosophy-dead/2018686.article 46 comments philosophy
- Is it true that many Linguistics departments are being closed worldwide recently? http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/salford-culls-courses-to-secure-future/2004425.article 24 comments linguistics
- World University Rankings 2014-2015 released http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2014-15/world-ranking 14 comments worldnews
- The role of race in philosophy, opinion article by Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/opinion/philosophy-is-deadwhite-and-dead-wrong/2012122.article 4 comments philosophy
- Philosophers need to follow Socrates’ example and get back among the people, say John Kaag and David O’Hara http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/opinion/hit-the-road-philosophy/2011394.article 81 comments philosophy
- 75% of new converts to Islam in UK are women. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/female-converts-to-islam-considered-in-new-study/2004157.article 20 comments worldnews
- Complete World University Rankings 2013-2014- Not a single univ in top 200 http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2013-14/world-ranking/range/001-200 22 comments india
- Unbridled success: Germany’s fee foes claim victory | News http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/unbridled-success-germanys-fee-foes-claim-victory/1/2003928.article 7 comments germany
- Historian Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95 http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=421347&c=1 3 comments europe
- Maths-heavy papers tend to be overlooked by biologists http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=420388&c=1 17 comments science
- Pullum on new Chomsky book http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=419565 15 comments linguistics
- Warming To Life In The Hot Zone --- Two researchers head to a village in northern Kazakhstan to see what life is like on a former nuclear test site. Their first thought, on arrival? The inhabitants simply must be relocated. Here's why they changed their mind http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=418625&c=1 20 comments worldnews
- Canary In The Coal Mine --- Higher education used to be regarded in Britain as a public good. Now it's been rebranded as a private investment. Which means an escalation of fees, a build-up student debt, and the casualisation of academic labour. Who benefits? http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=418284&c=1 171 comments worldnews
- Top institutions in Mathematics by citation impact http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=416399 39 comments math
- The latest research shows that a primate species whose success is based on mutual aid and pleasure, not violence, is a better model for human origins http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=415874&c=2 13 comments science
- So Galen Strawson says there is a fundamental sense in which free will is impossible, whether determinism is true or not. No one is ultimately responsible for anything and "luck swallows everything". Is anyone else troubled by this? http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=107995 14 comments philosophy
- Professor McKee: Social scientists don't say 'titwank'? http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=409059 6 comments science
- "The current system of communicating the results of scientific research via journal articles is a 17th-century solution to a 17th-century problem" http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=414579&c=2 54 comments science
- Foucault's pendulum is sent crashing to Earth http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=411529 3 comments science
- Unconventional thinkers or recklessly dangerous minds? http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=411468&c=2 10 comments science
- "No doubt all those named contributed to the research. However, I find it difficult to understand how 144 individuals, however close their working relationship, could be involved in writing it." http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=411093&c=1 9 comments science
- Having waded through her complete works, Gerald L. Houseman concludes that there should never, ever be an Ayn Rand revival http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=408138&c=2 25 comments politics
- WTF: Elsevier tries to undermine UK universities' open-access repositories http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=407046&c=1 6 comments science
- Divine irony - musings on the often acrimonious debate between atheists and believers http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=405647 8 comments philosophy
- Mathematics last in citation rates http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=405789 10 comments math
- Bob Horvitz, Nobel laureate in physiology, is said to have spent 30 years studying the 22 cells of a worm's vulva. But now, academia is less welcoming to awkward geniuses. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=405755 3 comments science
- Liverpool Uni, threatens to close philosophy department http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=405704&c=1 4 comments philosophy
- The discipline of anthropology has split firmly into two factions http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=404341&c=1 2 comments reddit.com
- The banality and sense of entitlement of rich students at Harvard left John H. Summers feeling his teaching had been degraded to little more than a service to prepare clients for monied careers http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=402674&enccode=5963447391bc23737875jtbs737226611 2 comments reddit.com
- 10 Modern Myths (author is very cynical) http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=401547&c=1 58 comments reddit.com