Next week

NEWS
Hardship funds or grants: the second THES student poverty analysis.

FEATURES
Salman Rushdie on democracy, evil and why he is writing shorter novels.

BOOKS
Philip W. Anderson on egg balancing and other outbreaks of pseudo-science;
Focus: biological science; social sciences and humanities journals

RESEARCH
Life's protein factory revealed.

TEACHING
How to get students to mark one another.