Walking the dog
(Photograph) - Walking the dog: students from a Student Community Action Project at the University of Plymouth walk dogs for elderly people, those who are housebound and people who go to work. The...
Search
-
-
Guru puts on the style for restless designers...but it's not all smiles at W3C
Tim Greenhalgh meets the Norwegian who redefined style on the world wide web, and Tony Durham sums up a year of successes and setbacks for the web's energetic standard setters Show two people a web...
-
Info cliches suit the Euro funders
Users of new technologies, rather than visionary glibness, will define the cultural results of information technology, Jon Agar argues Flagship technologies always repay close reading: they tell us...
-
BBC and S4C join to bring UFI to Wales
The University for Industry will be delivered in Wales by a bilingual distance learning network specifically tailored to Welsh needs, according to Eurfron Gwynne Jones, chair of Digital College Wales...
-
Guru puts on the style for restless designers...but it's not all smiles at W3C
Tim Greenhalgh meets the Norwegian who redefined style on the world wide web, and Tony Durham sums up a year of successes and setbacks for the web's energetic standard setters The web is a global...
-
Better to rethink than to raid research
It is unfortunate that the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service's processing of student applications for 1999 has been delayed by a move to larger premises. This is the first year in which no...
-
The day British science flowered for Mr Blair
Scientists hope their visit to No 10 has whetted ministers' appetites for fresh policies. Olivea Judson reports The day before the air strikes began against Iraq, prime minister Tony Blair found...
-
Scientists of the world unite to stay independent
Scientists around the world are feeling optimistic. They have new money and - as our supplement (pages 21-28) on the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows - new challenges to...
-
Nursing a grievance
We were saddened and angered by the emotive and ill-informed attacks on nursing, nursing shortages and higher education ("V-cs defend nurse training", THES, January 15). We are surprised that...
-
Letters in brief
If Bill Thompson ("Why I plan to carry on smoking", THES, January 8) really does his thinking with his motor neurones, I'm not surprised he is patron of an organisation as stupid as Forest. John...
-
Readers reactions
Earlier this month in The THES.. Marie Denley argued that women should have made the shortlist for the Today programme's Person of the Millennium competition. The exclusion of women from the Today...
-
Age less at 90?
Who is more aged, a 90-year-old or a 100-year-old? And, yes, it is a trick question. The answer, according to Michael Rose of the University of California, Irvine, is neither. The 100-year-old may be...
-
Onward, noisily
Tim Cornwell finds that in its 150 years, the association has not only not kept out of politics but has sometimes invited it in. One hundred and fifty years ago last year, the American Association...
-
Diet hell by heaven will wait
Calorie-restricteddiets could be the secret to a longer life. Ayala Ochert,reporting on the latest research, finds out that less really is more. At long last, the secret to a long life is out - but...
-
Eric Haseltine
(Photograph) - When Eric Haseltine, chief scientist for Disney's Imagineering, says some of the actors in the film Titanic are not real, he is not casting a slur on Leonardo di Caprio's acting skills...