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Archives for Academia

On Ben Goldacre's "Bad Science"... (September 12, 2005) While I'm talking about the Guardian (reports from friends within the printing presses are that it's looks beautiful), i thought I should probably mention an article that I read on Thursday last week which I thought was one of the...

What you should know before starting a doctorate... (July 3, 2004) A few days ago an interesting article on Graduate schools circulated around the web. The article suggested that Graduate school has many of the features of a cult and that some people staying on to undertake postgraduate studies almost needed...

On parallels with academic citation networks... (May 28, 2003) As ever when I've written something long and vaguely serious, I can't think of anything to talk about for days afterwards. So to try and break me back into the writing habit, I'm going to talk a bit about the...

A piece of writing from a book about Baudrillard pertaining specifically to Nietszche and history... (October 23, 2002) I've been re-reading a little book on Baudrillard because it's the only thing that fits in the pocket of my brand new coat (excessive money spent - we'll say no more about this). In it I've stumbled upon a section...

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