Aerodynamic leader
St Catherine's College, Oxford, has appointed an aerodynamics expert as its new head after the sudden departure of Sir Peter Williams. Roger Ainsworth, deputy head of the university's engineering...
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Skill raiser
Congratulations to Christopher Duff, who has been appointed chief executive of the Sector Skills Development Agency, the new UK-wide body to oversee the government's drive to raise skills and...
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Vote yes or no. Or both
Students at Imperial College, London, this week held a referendum on joining the National Union of Students. The student newspaper carried two full-page adverts, one supporting and one opposing the...
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Finding fault with a salt
John Barrow of Cambridge University, lecturing the Royal Astronomical Society on cosmology last week, pointed out that vast expanses of space and time impress most people - but cut little ice with...
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Director's cut leaves scars
Donald Richie looks at the partnership of a great actor and director. Many film directors have favourite actors, and many actors have favourite directors. One thinks of John Ford and John Wayne,...
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From Fu Man Chu to a grizzly end
Travels, Explorations and Empires 1770-1835 Volumes One to Four
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Eavesdrop on history
Tracking Apollo to the Moon
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about a lifelong Scottish feud: "The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long...
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Learning to love uncertainty
Conversations with a Mathematician
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Cosmic doughnuts followed by superstring fries?
The Bigger Bang - Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
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Fuzzy blobs in sharp focus
The Cambridge Photographic Guide to the Planets - The Compact NASA Atlas of the Solar System
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Laurie Taylor column
I see UUK's in serious trouble. I'm sorry. I stopped reading the comic strips years ago. No, it's not a cartoon character. It's a sort of acronym for Universities UK. What's that? UUK is the new name...
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Letter: Cool it
Like many other scientists, I am troubled by the unseemly controversy over claims that transgenic DNA may have spread to traditional varieties of Mexican maize ("Scientists call for reason in GM row...
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Letter: Poor political plays
We sabbatical officers wholeheartedly condemn the president and treasurer of the National Union of Students for sending a letter to all student union presidents urging them not to vote for Labour...
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Letter: Copywrongs
If the working paper on the exploitation of public-sector information is converted into a European Union directive, it spells the end of debate about copyright in higher education research ("Worry at...