And the new generation has the backing of an old hand - Professor George Smoot, Nobel prizewinner for his work on the cosmic microwave background and one of the world's most respected physicists.

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With an old man's impatience, Professor Levi snorts at most previous Virgil scholars.

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Edward Ketz, an accounting professor and co-author of the Grumpy Old Accountants blog, has been a vociferous critic of Groupon.

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It is an argument so old it is draped in cobwebs, but Professor Winkler examines the growth of " originalism", the belief that the Supreme Court should base its rulings on the intentions of those who wrote the constitution.

BBC: 'Gun fight' over the US constitution

We do funerals nicely here, elegies and memorials, "celebrations of life, " we call them, whether it's a ninety year old math professor in a nursing home or an unlucky student drunkenly falling into a snow bank or tumbling down an elevator shaft.

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The Myriad case is "an anatomy of old IP gone wrong", said Dr Gold, Professor of Intellectual Property Law at McGill University in Montreal.

BBC: Patent system 'stifling science'

"I could put a cell phone in an earring or a tongue stud, " says the 39-year-old professor-turned-entrepreneur.

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Verne's heroes - the eccentric Professor Lidenbrock and his long-suffering nephew, Axel - discover a clue encrypted in an old Icelandic manuscript that sends them to the island in search of a passage to the core of the planet.

BBC: An Icelandic journey to the centre of the earth