Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
Fred Inglis wishes for a more searching critique of what passes for contentment in the modern era
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Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem
Gilbert and Sullivan's Major-General may have known many, but the only cheerful fact about the square on the hypotenuse that is familiar to most of us is that it is equal to the sum of the squares on...
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Flying in the Face of Criminalization: The Safety Implications of Prosecuting Aviation Professionals for Accidents
The recent criminal convictions arising from the July 2000 Concorde crash near Paris renewed the concerns of aviation professionals and provide a timely backdrop for the work of Sofia Michaelides-...
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Free-range businessman hatches plans
Brunel hopes to profit from entrepreneur-in-residence's insights. Hannah Fearn reports
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Reading the riot acts and scenes of London's violent theatrical past
International collaboration casts light on early modern social history. Matthew Reisz reports
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Critical voices condemn Glasgow language plans
Plans to cut foreign language provision at the University of Glasgow have attracted a flood of protest from as far afield as Turkey, Sweden, the Czech Republic and the US.As ߣߣÊÓƵ...
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Blogconfidential: Blag on?
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Blag on?
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Appointments
University of NorthamptonJackie CampbellThe phrase "no pain, no gain" could have been invented for Jackie Campbell, professor of neurophysiology at the University of Northampton. Professor Campbell...
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Top nations in agricultural sciences
Top nations in agricultural sciencesData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 2000–31 October 2010Â CountryPapers CitationsCitations per paper1...
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News in Brief
SpainNon-residents need not applyForeign students will not be allowed to apply to Spain's two main doctoral fellowship programmes unless they can prove they are residents of the country. Under new...
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Nostos address: Greece's reformers call students home
Minister appeals for Greeks studying overseas to return to revamped academy. Hannah Fearn writes
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Grant Winners
THE LEVERHULME TRUST• Award winner: James Spencer• Institution: University of Bristol• Value: £47,911Cfr, a radical SAM enzyme catalysing rRNA methylation at unreactive centres• Award winner: Martin...
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The end is not nigh
Those in the humanities and social sciences must be less paranoid and more precise in identifying threats, argues Adam Roberts
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£6K must be ceiling, survey told Browne
But parent and student opinion did not make it into final report, FoI reveals. John Morgan writes
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Willetts set to widen pool of degree-awarding bodies
Government plans to open up degree-awarding powers to organisations that do not teach have been described as "revolutionary".