Tennyson's phrase "red in tooth and claw" has long attached to Darwinian nature. Yet Darwin was always, and sometimes mainly, concerned with plants. As he explained in On the Origin of Species (1859...
This book was published to coincide with the exhibition organised by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in association with the Department of Special Collections of the Stanford University...
(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- (?)Patronizing the ArtsBy Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan Jr professor of English and of visual and environmental studies, Harvard University. Princeton...
In sanctioning the Bush Administration's use of torture, the corruption of American attorneys is common knowledge - but are academic psychologists also partly to blame? A book published this summer,...
Our Director of Corporate Affairs Jamie Targett has vigorously denied his involvement in a video clip currently available on YouTube.This clumsily filmed clip appears to show Targett talking to...
Tim Birkhead dispels the myth that lecturers spend three months on the beach
In denigrating students, devaluing teachers and equating degrees with big salaries, the media and the Government damage society
A pioneer of multidisciplinary cancer research, described as a true visionary in the field, has died.
It is encouraging to see the research assessment exercise (RAE) subpanel chairs arguing in ߣߣÊÓƵ that peer review should remain at the heart of any future system of research...
Michael Pittilo of The Robert Gordon University asserts (Letters, 28 August) that academics' objections to alternative medicine degree courses are "arrogant", and he claims, as a fact no less, that...
Lord Winston's recent BBC programme Superdoctors was a masterly explication to a lay audience of how stem-cell treatment for advanced heart disease can be evaluated in a randomised, double-blind,...
William Gibson of Oxford Brookes University says that I haven't quite got the hang of reductio ad absurdum (Letters, 28 August) and that I can't cry foul if he reduces to absurdity my principles by...
I do realise that it has been the silly season, but the time has come to ask why ߣߣÊÓƵ has published an article and two letters on the English spelling system written by a...
Ken Smith notes that his name is a near-anagram of "mistaken" and an anagram of "me thinks" (Letters, 21 August). He is lucky. It has been pointed out to me that Professor Hugh McLachlan is an...
Martin Cohen should stop worrying about the use of Wikipedia ("Encyclopaedia Idiotica", 28 August) and start thinking about the skills used to evaluate its contents. In considering any material...