Odds and quads
Along with ketchup containers and an apple-shaped promotional radio, this Rhoda Handbag - designed by Sarah Bayley - forms part of the collection at the Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDiP).
Along with ketchup containers and an apple-shaped promotional radio, this Rhoda Handbag - designed by Sarah Bayley - forms part of the collection at the Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDiP).

In a shock move, our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has announced "a major quantitative upsurge" in the amount of Latin to be used in our graduation ceremonies.Targett told...
A latter-day Socrates wouldn't stand a chance, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
A consultation aims to ensure that postgrads in environmental science are ready for the future. Zoë Corbyn reports
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Universities need to be free from government control if they are to succeed in providing the education demanded of them
I am constantly reading (and writing) about the negatives of tertiary education today: universities are now merely businesses; grammatical standards have slipped; young people are ignoramuses who don...
A dialectologist and pioneering forensic linguist - who made a notable intervention in the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry - has died.Stanley Ellis was born in Bradford on 18 February 1926, studied at...
Timely revision of a classic work
This is the third edition of a well-established textbook that presents the chemistry of the environment: the natural, unpolluted environment and the damaged environment, including what can be done to...
This book is mostly a collection of chapters on basic physical chemistry and organic chemistry with just a smattering of information on the inorganic parts of the periodic table of relevance to...
From the general principles of chemistry we now turn to an investigation of a single substance, water. Water is perhaps one of the most extraordinary of substances, with properties unlike those of...
If you want to know the depth of chemistry behind a menu in a restaurant, this is the book for you. Here are more than 1,000 pages of closely packed information about the essential chemistry of foods...
Chemistry has a reputation as a difficult, arcane subject, often reinforced by monolithic textbooks as unhelpful as they are intimidating. Stepping up to challenge this convention, Chemistry3 aims to...
The US House of Representatives has just inaugurated the National Computer Science Education Week. With 405 votes for and none against the resolution, computer science must be hitting the mainstream....