Infinite issues 1
As John Barrow says, when a theory in physics gives infinite answers something is usually thought to be wrong with it ("The battle that just rages on and on", August 12). When classical physics gave...
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Infinite issues 2
I would like to claim the prize for being the first to notice that Brett Ryder's celestial Moebius strip is not one. Ignoring the break, it has two surfaces (or four with the edges) not one. Of...
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Passages to India
It is encouraging that the Government recognises the fact that lamentably small numbers of British students go to study in India and that the Prime Minister's visit in September could help to improve...
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New-aged group
First, articles and letters complain about tired oldies resisting change and impeding the progress of younger people. Then others complain of ageism because research assessment exercise rules are...
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Call me a geographer
I wholly agree that "academic geography is relevant to policy and political debate" (Soapbox, August 5). It's hard to find a government department that geographers don't engage with. And, despite the...
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Cathedrals again
Andrew Slim should not be so quick with the tut-tutting (Letters, August 12). No one has ever suggested that possession of a Roman Catholic cathedral, after the Reformation, made any difference to...
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No quibble with QAA
Your story on Kingston University's recent Quality Assurance Agency report reminds me of those extracts from theatre reviews that end up on billboards - "a wonderful night out" but omitting "if it...
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No release from house of cards
The AAAS is calling on the US to free scientist Huda Ammash, aka 'Mrs Anthrax'. Steve Farrar reports When Huda Ammash turned herself in to the US authorities in May 2003, the Pentagon was jubilant....
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The slow, torturous turning of the screw
Faisal al Yafai explores the erosion of academic freedom in Belarus, where critical thinkers are forced underground Even now, it is not clear why Pavel Krasovski was expelled from university....
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Extreme makeover - a whole new you?
Who would really want a new sense of sexual identity? David Gems considers the challenges of ontological enhancement Can I interest you in a new and dangerous idea? It is called ontological...
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No sex please, we are young, free and single
Princeton students are curiously conservative and surprisingly celibate, in fiction and in fact, says Edmund White After 16 years of living in Paris I came back to the US six years ago to a job...
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Campus curiosities
No 12: UCL's eclipsed staer-gazers Flanking the approach to the imposing portico of the Wilkins building at University College London are two rather tired circular structures with metal-clad...
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Pen succumbs to power of pixel
It's the end of the line for the hand-drawn Disney character. What would Walt have said, asks John Canemaker In the 1960s, Walt Disney joked that one day he would replace his elite corps of animators...
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Today's news
Rise in A-level passes the smallest for 20 years A-level results improved for the 23rd year in a row today. The overall pass rate increased by 0.2 percentage points to 96.2 per cent, while the...
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Latest research news
Nerve cell breakthrough is world first Scientists in Edinburgh have created the world's first clutch of nerve stem cells in what could prove to be a major breakthrough in the race to treat diseases...