Of famine, genocide and slicing up brains
A century of lost lives has changed a nation, writes Adam Hochschild. When my family and I were living in Moscow some ten years ago, the only foreigners in a sombre, fortress-like apartment block, a...
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Eyes to the sky for holy thought
God's Equation
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A last word on the Führer and Third Reich
Hitler, 1936-1945
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Molecules, candy and microwaves
The New Chemistry
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Surveying a monumental landscape from the shoulders of giants
Proteins, Enzymes, Genes
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is a genial tale of a German tour by an idle fellow: "'What we want,' said Harris, 'is a change.'"...
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Daily TV & radio guide - Friday
The Poet and the Astronaut (11.00 am R4). Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis and her cousin Joe Tanner, who inspired her poem Zero Gravity (featured in a BBC2 programme in July 1999). Belief (7.00 R3). Last in...
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Higher Channels
Pick of the week Jonathan Meades brings BBC2's Victorian season to a close with the enjoyably pugnacious Victoria Died in 1901 but is Still Alive Today (Sunday 9.45). The programme is mainly about...
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Laurie Taylor column
SENIOR DON RIGGED RESULTS - SHOCK CHARGE Media studies academics across the country are reeling from the news that one of their senior colleagues, Dr Piercemuller of Poppleton University, has been...
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Leader: Bit more than nothing offered for something
The funding council insists that the new money it plans to put into pay must be on a "something for something" basis, and that this means performance related pay - with the establishment of...
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Leader: Still no room on the election manifestoes
Education, though not higher education, looks set to top the political agenda in Britain in 2001. The year will almost certainly bring a general election in which schools rather than colleges will be...
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Letter: Chewing over Gum(1)
Fay Weldon's tilt at political philosophy does not amount to a hill of beans ("Towards a grand universal morality", Millennium Magazine , THES, December 22/29). Our godless age has, she argues, so...
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Letter: Chewing over Gum(2)
Congratulations on that spoof first-year essay by Fay Weldon. J. C. O'Neill Edinburgh
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Letter: Our very own RAE of sunshine
It never ceases to amaze me that academics continue to attack the research assessment exercise ("Poisonous exercises", THES, December 22/29). For those who enter the profession because research is...
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Letter: BAT funding at Notts(1)
Reactions to the decision of the university to accept British American Tobacco funding for its business school have ranged from moral condemnation to an acceptance of economic pragmatism in relation...