In Defence of Dogs
Looking at long bookshelves packed with books on dogs gives the impression that anybody can be an expert on man's best friend. But in an overcrowded field, one may feel fully confident when reading...
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The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons
Conor Gearty praises an angry expose of how the US legal system deprives and excludes citizens
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Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy
Alexander Marr's book is a recovery of a remarkable figure: Mutio Oddi of Urbino (1569-1639), architetto ducale, professore di matematica nelle Scuole Palatine, ingegnere della Serenissima Repubblica...
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Truth, beauty...idleness
A new 'academy' is setting out to 'liberate' Londoners - and teach them Latin and butchery along the way. Matthew Reisz stops by
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Diary
LondonPotted Potter: The Unauthorised Harry ExperienceAnyone exhausted by the thought of reading the seven books or sitting through all the films can now get their fix of Harry Potter compressed into...
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Don't mention the money
Doreen Tomelty, our Deputy Director of Advanced Technological Retrieval Systems (formerly Assistant Librarian), has warmly welcomed the interview with a journal publishers' spokesman published in...
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TV reviews: Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model & Jersey Shore
Will Brooker considers the comforting tropes of 'reality' TV present in BINTM and Jersey Shore
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Film review: In a Better World
Duncan Wu is impressed by an honest depiction of the emotional and physical harm we inflict and suffer
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Adam Bell, 1984-2011
In a tribute to Adam Bell, John Cater, vice-chancellor of Edge Hill University, said that if there was anyone who did not like him, it was because they loved him instead.Born in Ormskirk, Lancashire...
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Copyright battles break out in North America
Canadian universities in row over licensing fees as US awaits fair-use ruling. Jon Marcus reports
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Appointments
University of LeicesterHelen YaffeA historian who stood in anti-apartheid picket lines in London in the 1980s is now researching the movement as part of her new role at the University of Leicester....
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Odds and quads
These instruments (see image, right) - inhaler, ether mask, bedpan, a syringe made by Philip Harris and Company and a device used during anaesthesia that contains a Sparklets bulb similar to those in...
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Research Intelligence - Engineering a solution to turbulence
Now is the time to improve and expand facilities, Sheffield faculty head tells Paul Jump
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The Pick - The Globe Mysteries
The Saved and the Damned
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From where I sit - In praise of undergraduates
Early in June at the University of Reading, I marked my last undergraduate exam paper - 47 years after I graded my first, as a callow "teaching Fellow" at the University of Sydney. The final script...