Having a gas with the mechanics of fluids
Lattice Gas Hydrodynamics
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How hard is hard?
Microhardness of Polymers
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Why opossums should rule and other fantasies
Archaeology and Language
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Are fluorescent monkeys keys to glowing health?
The Harvard University geneticist Richard Lewontin's book consists of review essays originally published in the New York Review of Books between 1981 and 1993, with epilogues to bring them up to date...
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Creating crystal phenomena
Liquid Crystals
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From experience - what you don't have can'tleak
Accident... A Life Preventing Them in Industry
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Romantic writer who said her novel was as "unromantic as a Monday morning": " Of late years, an...
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When you arrive at Jupiter, take a left
A Tribble's Guide to Space
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Laurie Taylor Column
" Ministers are considering a further increase in the premium paid to universities for each student they recruit from a poor neighbourhood " - THES , February 16. Hello. Ah yes, hello indeed. Am I...
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Letter: Bean-counterclaims
We recently had a letter published (THES, January 26) that criticised the transparency review being carried out in the sector. This is the scheme whereby staff have to keep 24-hour diaries of their...
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Letter: Surveying's shallow foundations
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors bases its new partnership scheme on teaching quality assessment, the research assessment exercise, entry standards and student employability ("Surveying...
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Letter: Surveying's shallow foundations
As a member of the Partnerships and Accreditation Board (PAB) of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, I have consistently questioned and opposed three of the four threshold standards adopted...
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Letter: Ditch casual disregard
Chris Kynch (Soapbox, THES, February 9) is right to urge action to help casualised staff. All too often teaching quality is maintained only at the expense of grossly overworked part-time staff, and...
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Letter: Figure fetishes
Howard Allen implies that if teaching is effective, distributions of grades should be heavily skewed towards firsts and upper seconds (Teaching, THES, February 9). For too long, fetishes have been...
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Letter: Janet and adverts
Following Charles Crook's stimulating article ("Spare us logo land", THES, February 2) readers may be interested to know that the Joint Information Systems Committee ( http:///www.jisc.ac.uk/ ) is...