Brazil’s home-grown Mooc, Veduca, has high hopes
Boosting skills and access are the aims of a new Portuguese-medium platform
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Posthumous criticism of cancer researcher’s links
The late public health specialist Patricia Buffler is alleged to have had conflicts of interest
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Demonisation and hatred
Soon after I started graduate school in history at Princeton University in 1970, I joined the American Studies Association and have been a faithful member ever since. I have served on the editorial...
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Tracking and joining billions of dots of data
Work is under way to ensure that big data do not mean big headaches for researchers in the physical sciences
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Honora Bartlett, Richard Joyner, George McKay, Jane O’Grady and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging, by Margaret Lock
When is a disease not a disease? asks Rose Anne Kenny
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George Orwell: English Rebel, by Robert Colls
Sheila Rowbotham on a great writer whose contrary aspects are impossible to sum up
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The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography, by Alan Jacobs
Willy Maley on one of the most important works in the English language
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Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70, by Polly Jones
Lara Cook on coping with the man of steel’s legacy
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Four Meditations on Happiness, by Michael Hampe
What makes us happy?, asks John Shand
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Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community, by Karen T. Litfin
Reconnecting to the land grounds us, says Steffen Böhm
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Serendipitous scholarship
Evidence is vital, but don’t reject intuition, Felipe Fernández-Armesto says
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USS’ largest investments in companies, 2013
The Universities Superannuation Scheme has more than £466 million invested in banking giant HSBC, according to data from the pension scheme’s latest financial report
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UCU announces three two-hour strikes
Three two-hour strikes aimed at disrupting teaching at UK universities have been announced
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UEA to close its London campus
The University of East Anglia is to cease offering degree courses at its London campus from September this year, it has been confirmed