Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind
Jeremy MacClancy on the British Museum’s new exhibition linking Ice Age artistry to the Modernists

Jeremy MacClancy on the British Museum’s new exhibition linking Ice Age artistry to the Modernists

John Brewer reviews a book that focuses on the spiritual motivations of peacemakers in the Middle East

Madeline Muntersbjorn reviews a guide to the oeuvres of a mathematical genius

Hillegonda Rietveld reviews a study of recording artists as cultural workers

Indie musician and the OFT’s former chief economist, takes chair at ‘creative’ UEA

Daniel Ploeger’s performance provokes minds through ‘body beautiful’

A world-renowned seismologist with particular expertise in the historical study of earthquakes has died.Nicholas Ambraseys was born in Athens on 19 January 1929 and studied at the National Technical...

Source: Nature Picture LibraryDon’t eat that, you don’t know what’s in itAfrican vultures tend to avoid national parks and prefer to scavenge on private farmland, a study of the birds’ feeding habits...

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Notes of regret, words of advice - Scholars’ missives to their stripling selves

In last week’s special Poppletonian article on the vital role played by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (hereafter Hefce) in assessing the corporate and financial governance of new...

John Morgan reports on FTSE 100 firm’s HE strategy

Randomised controlled trials can’t solve social policy conundrums any more than they can fit football to a formula, says Gary Thomas

‘Neurotic’ sector plays ‘zero-sum game’ despite cap on numbers

Podcast Powered By PodbeanMoocs, open access and imaginatively titled research papers are among the topics covered on this week’s THE podcast issue review. News editor Simon Baker and reporter Paul...