Book of the week: Punishing the Poor
Louise Hardwick on the imbalance in the US social funding see-saw
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The Marvelous Hairy Girls
A family suffering an unusual condition and their experience of their world intrigues Peter J. Smith
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Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics
Three key assumptions underpin the collection of essays that editors Glyn Davis and Gary Needham have brought together. The first is that people watch television (a perfectly reasonable assumption,...
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The Canon: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male/Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. By Alfred Kinsey (with Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin and Paul Gebhard)
Alfred Kinsey was a taxonomist obsessed. Having already made his mark in the study of gall wasps, he later turned to the study of human sexual behaviour after being asked to teach a marriage guidance...
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Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life
Jo-Ann Wallace finds that a lack of personal detail clouds an otherwise valuable biography
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Pavlov's Dogs and Schrödinger's Cat: Scenes from the Living Laboratory
Alba, an albino bunny born in February 2000 at France's National Institute for Agronomic Research, had an unusual trait along with her pink eyes and white fur. Thanks to the addition of a gene for...
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Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia
The 'engineers of human souls' occupied a unique role in the Soviet Union, finds Harold Shukman
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Published this week
ARTS AND DESIGN- Public Speaking in the City: Debating and Shaping the Urban ExperienceBy Janet Stewart, director, visual culture masters programme, University of Aberdeen. Palgrave Macmillan, £55.00...
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Overseas briefing
ߣߣÊÓƵPerformance 'compact' unveiledThe ߣߣÊÓƵn Government is to tie teaching and research performance to negotiated "compact agreements" with universities in an effort to encourage distinct...
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U-Map if you want to, but critics aren't convinced
Some fear that Europe-wide university classification will hamstring institutions. Phil Baty reports
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Pirbright lab to get £92m revamp
Institute of Animal Health to benefit after years of neglect. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Grant winners
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE REPLACEMENT, REFINEMENT AND REDUCTION OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCHThe NC3Rs has funded 13 grants, worth a total of £4.5 million, at UK establishments. The research will advance...
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Merger maestro
Neil Simco's prior experience setting up a university bodes well for the future University of the Highlands and Islands
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Appointments
The Royal Society has announced the winners of its 2009 awards, medals, royal medals and lectures. The UK's independent academy for science presents the awards annually in recognition of research...
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The happening
A student from Bournemouth University is organising a touring exhibition of original costumes worn by Sixties singers the Supremes. Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs, who is studying for a masters in museum...