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Discover the Professor in you!
The international magazine of the University, HUB, is stories about science, insights and proven facts. Please, subscribe to printed issues (published twice a year), e-issues (four times a year) or both — for free.
HUB 1/2011: Decrypting the Aids myth

Curing Aids by having sex with virgins? Preventing HIV contraction by taking cold showers after sex? Jonas Sivelä travelled to Cape Town’s townships to research Aids beliefs.

Considering Sisu, Or, What is Our National Character, Anyway?
It really pays to choose one's academic interests carefully. I, for example, am interested in the touristic aspects of cultural heritage.

Problems help us learn
Physicist Szabolcs Galambosi – recipient of the 2010 Good Teacher prize awarded by the Student Union of the University of Helsinki – uses himself as a guinea pig in his teaching. And he hopes that his children will adopt the mindset of a detective.
HUB 5/2010
Assessed and visibleEditorial, Johanna Björkroth
Most noteworthy brain responses
Zebrafish and its brains
From rags to taxes
We’ll be going places!
A modest maestro of the organ
To Russia with love
Language skills is a mixed bag
Family affairs
Telomere lenght
A gateway to St Petersburg
Deeper than skin deep
Tracing carbon in the land of eternal fr
Sign systems making history
A dispute that changed the world
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