Friendly fire lights up the lab
The One Culture? A Conversation about Science
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Lexicon of the light fantastic
The Oxford Dictionary of Dance
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Tale of leaky data, bugs and spooks
Mechanizing Proof
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Species crawl out of the verbal fog
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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What in the world are we doing?
AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment
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How elastic plates can keep the mountains up
Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere
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Laurie Taylor
The improvement in degree classes is attributable to the increased use by universities of feedback and continuous assessment - Education Quarterly. Professor Lapping, Sally is here. Sally? Sally...
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Leader: Freedom to set v-c pay requires transparency
In the era of the £100,000-a-year head teacher and the £250,000-a-year civil servant, vice-chancellors are not overpaid. But as the Higher Education Funding Council for England has said in response...
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Leader: Feel the power of universities' financial punch
Another spending review, another report underlining the importance of universities to the economy. They would say that, wouldn't they? Up to a point, of course they would, but the analysis published...
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Irish centre still going
Queen's University's Institute of Irish Studies is not to close ("Irish institute could close", THES , June 7). It is to be reinvigorated with significant extra resources that will allow it to draw...
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Ins and outs of race 2
I was glad to see that "racialism" is "as natural as sexual feelings between the opposite sexes". That's 10 per cent of the population we don't need to worry about, then. Zoë-Jane Playdon Co-chair...
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Career conundrums 1
I empathise with Alice Smyth in being "disillusioned with degrees" ("Why I...", THES , June 14). I too am in the casual labour market with a teaching degree, two masters and a PhD from the Open...
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Unwell? Ape an ape's remedy
We can advance knowledge in many fields by studying the ways animals medicate themselves, says Cindy Engel Navajo and Blackfoot Indians say that one of their most powerful medicines was discovered by...
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A transparent revolution
Why did the great scientific advances that transformed the world between the 13th and 17th centuries all occur in western Europe? Alan Macfarlane believes the answer is crystal clear. One of the most...
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Keeping watch on the seats of power
Modern anthropology, the study of power in all its forms, is focusing on how elites and institutions affect individual lives and how the alienated can be empowered. Anthropologists are more committed...