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The Genetic Revolution

What advances has the mapping of the human genome led to? Professor Peter Donnelly from the University of Oxford visited the Warwick Systems Biology Centre to talk about the way in which developments in genetics and genomics have impacted on human health, and why we're not as different from chimpanzees as we may have thought.

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The Dam Busters: Their Place in (Economic) History

The skill and heroism of the Dam Busters' raid on the Ruhr valley is the stuff of legend, but what kind of an impact did it have on the German war economy? Professor Mark Harrison asks whether the activities of 16th-17th May 1943 stemmed from a mistaken belief in a 'powerful knock-out blow' that would somehow disable the German war machine, and explores how sustained Allied bombing brought forward Hitler's defeat.

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Bringing Up Baby

Recent research has found important country differences in couples' decisions to work while children are still young. To coincide with Mothers' Day in the US, Dr Clare Lyonette and colleagues argue that many American women are forced back to work full-time after having children because of the importance of employer-provided health insurance.

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The Artificial Sniffer and other Healthcare Technologies

These days, the future of health and science technology lies with interdisciplinary teams. At this Ideas Cafe event three Warwick academics revealed the healthcare challenges that they are researching and how colleagues from different departments are coming together to solve them.

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Left or Right? France Faces a Political Crossroads

With Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande going head-to-head for the French vote, France's political landscape is now more polarised between left and right than it has been for many years. Warwick Professor, Nick Hewlett, author of The Sarkozy Phenomenon, casts a critical eye over the strategies of the two remaining candidates.

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Social Networks in the 18th Century

The emergence of a new commerical society in 18th-century Britain saw the creation of literary clubs and societies which became the 'social networks' of their day. In this article Research Fellow Georgina Green introduces a Warwick project that explores the role of clubs and socities from 1760 to 1840 and looks at the ways in which they were considered places of individual improvement.

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Featured Content from The Knowledge Centre
	ELECTED MAYORS AND CITY LEADERSHIP What is the role of elected mayors in providing strategic leadership to cities? This is the question at the heart of the Warwick Commission's most recent report. With the 2012 London mayoral election due to be held on Thursday, the Commission offers a timely review of the evidence on elected mayors including why they have risen to the surface of Britain's political agenda.
	THE GENIES OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS Genies appear in the Quran, the apocrypha, folklore and mystical literature, but probably the best known appearances of them in literature are in the Arabian Nights. In this talk as part of Warwick's Distinguished Lecture Series, Professor Marina Warner explains why genies are inexorably linked with objects such as Aladdin's lamp.
	THE BRITISH HOUSING MARKET: TOO BIG TO FAIL? Amongst plans to boost the economy, the British government has announced an initiative to state-guarantee 95 per cent mortgages in a move to get people onto the housing ladder. PhD candidate Ben Jacoby compares such policies with the New Labour years and states that the housing market is now simply too big to fail.
	DICKENS AND SHAKESPEARE One aspect of Charles Dickens's life not widely touched on in his centenary year is his efforts to preserve Shakespeare's memory in the playwright's home county of Warwickshire. In this video, Dr Charlotte Matheison, Professor Stanley Wells and the Rev. Dr Paul Edmondson explore Dickens's special relationship with Shakespeare's birthplace.