Truth behind campus news
PART of my job is to keep up with what is happening to staff on campuses in London and southern England. Every month I read a dozen or more university newsletters. I have become something of a...
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Labour allies with intellect
AFTER a generation of defeat and retreat, American labour is fighting back. Remembering a time when industrial and cultural workers marched together, labour's leadership has invited intellectuals,...
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Slinky proteins
(Photograph) - An exhibition at the University of Nottingham Arts Centre called "Molecules are life and art" aims "to show the link between molecules and everyday life", says its curator Cristina De...
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Climate outlook bleak, says report
A BLEAK outlook for the world's climate and ecology, with sea levels rising by an average of 50 centimetres over the next 100 years and many species under threat, is predicted by a government report...
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Halliday to succeed Pounds at PPARC
THE DEPARTMENT of Trade and Industry this week announced that Ian Halliday of the University of Wales, Swansea will succeed Ken Pounds as chief executive and deputy chairman of the Particle Physics...
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Italy regains particle lead
ITALY has returned to the forefront of nuclear particle research with the first successful trial run this week of a radically innovative double annular particle accelerator at the National Institute...
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Internet expansion
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, now has a new service for subscribers. A complete and fully searchable archive of The THES from October 1994 is available to all subscribers to the newspaper, who...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an eminently rational friend of Einstein: "Everybody knows that Einstein did...
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Tents, emotional hurricanes and alfresco lovemaking
Robert Frost
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Rhinos on the downs
Fairweather Eden
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Doctor Nuland's case book
The Wisdom of the Body
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Fugitive from fret
Keats
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At the hour of false gods
After 1989
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Capitalism's premature mourner
Anthony Crosland - Crosland's Future - Political Economy and the Labour Party
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Ministers take the biscuit
Ministers of the Crown