First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you haveto identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an old Roman who rode the streets of his city once again last week aftera...
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Heart-felt prayers
Coronary patients are to be the subject of an experiment to find out if there really is power in prayer. Russell Stannard asks should God be put to the test? Do prayers for sick people work? We might...
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Plenty of stones still unturned
Safety on North Sea oil platforms is beinghampered by free market philosophy, argues Charles Woolfson A recent government inspection of the Piper Bravo oil platform, off the Scottish coast, revealed...
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Lucky losers
Huw Richards quizzes the academic losers of previous elections about what might have been.. If parallel universes exist there is probably one in which Pat Seyd rather than Tony Blair is about to...
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Please don't mention the war
British and German perceptions of each other are stuck in a time warp. We must move on from the second world war, says Richard Cockett I was invited to an unusual dinner party by a German girlfriend...
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Why do we fail to shed tiers?
Class is a very British obsession but for David Cannadine it is more about perception than economic statistics. Lucy Hodges reports. Class is a subject that obsesses us British. We use it as a lens...
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The day all chaos broke loose
Meteorologist Edward Lorenz nearly talked himself out of a job when he discovered chaos theory. Ayala Ochert meets the man who made long-range weather forecasting impossible. There's a great deal of...
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Fieldwork with Bo, Peep and their lost sheep
A mass suicide turned Robert Balch into an instant media star. Tim Cornwell hears how a Montana sociology professor infiltrated the notorious Heaven's Gate cult all in the name of research. A...
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In and out of this world
Fact and fun combine in Donna Haraway's work of literary pyrotechnics to describe our technoscientific world. Gail Vines reports. Donna Haraway's writing is flamboyant, funny, challenging - and not a...
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Chairs
51国产视频 of Wales, Bangor Jenny Thomas, senior lecturer in the department of linguistics and modern English language at the 51国产视频 of Lancaster, has been appointed professor of linguistics from...
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Grants
Bolton Institute Research contracts Professor S. Anand, Pounds 42,000, over three years, from Whirlpool Corporation United States (programme into better understanding of fabric care) and Pounds 30,...
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Honorary degrees
51国产视频 of Sussex DMus: John Tomlinson, opera singer. LLD: Terry Whitney, former senior partner of the university's solicitors, Donne Mileham and Haddock. 51国产视频 of the West of England MA:...
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Appointments
The Leadership Trust Roger Gill, former director of executive development programmes at the 51国产视频 of Strathclyde, has been appointed head of the new research centre for leadership studies....
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Hard-up members quit league
The Association of Commonwealth Universities could be seriously weakened if any more British universities drop out to save money, its new secretary general has warned. At least three have withdrawn...
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Qualifications revamp urged
The qualifications system in higher education needs to be redefined and updated, academics are to be told. Quality chiefs want universities and colleges to work towards a common framework for the...