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Combating Fallacious Reasoning

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma When I was young, I was transfixed by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Even today, his mummified corpse remains on display in a glass case in University College London’s student center. As I viewed and reviewed the drawings that appeared in the newspaper, I learned about a great many jaw-dropping oddities.

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It’s Time to Embrace the Emotional or Affective Turn

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Emotions are on the bestseller list – and for good reason. A second volume that has provoked widespread debate is Batja Mesquita’s Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions , which challenges the assumption that there are certain hard-wired universal emotions. In fact, emotions steer our thoughts.

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Beyond the transactional: Three lessons from Australia for Foreign Direct Investment in research and development (R&D)

HEPI

Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities. Universities in the Midlands and the pan-regional growth body, the Midlands Engine, are piloting how universities can work together to attract foreign direct investment into regional research and development.