Millennium Magazine 2001
Our first Millennium Magazine looked back over the past 1,000 years of intellectual achievement. This follow-up looks forward and asks by what values we should live in the years to come. Auriol...
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Looking at dwarfs and cool red giants
Henry Norris Russell
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Mind your head - falling rocks
As 2001 nears, Arthur C. Clarke warns Earthlings against space invaders during the coming century. Thanks to one of the most remarkable events in the entire history of astronomy, the names Shoemaker...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an ancient Greek philosopher: "Our own observation tells us that every state is an association of...
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Prophets of doom rise for an encore
Late Antiquity
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A seer who waged war on violent science
J. D. Bernal
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Transit from echo to original
The Shadow of a Saint
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TV & radio guide - Thursday
» Routes of English (9.00 am R4). "Border Talk" – the border being Offa’s Dyke. Melvyn Bragg listens to the people of Oswestry. Truman (9.15 am BBC2). Part two of presidential biography. The Civil...
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Sit, then do the ironing
Robot toys are a Christmas favourite. They are also the testing ground for sophisticated tools that will change our lives, writes Tim Cornwell. In 1997, researchers at the Massachusetts company...
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From the wellspring of disaster rise faint hopes
Efforts to provide fresh water to West Bengal and Bangladesh led to an environmental and human catastrophe. But, reports Steve Farrar, scientists are closing in on the cause of the disaster. A widow...
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Can this old house offer a new window on the world?
As Chatham House loses its director after a brief tenure, Claire Sanders considers the institute's challenges. When Chris Gamble, the first female director of the Royal Institute of International...
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Does the devil eat hot dogs?
Massimo Salani says meals cement our relationship with God. But, he tells Domenico Pacitti, he never said fast food was fit only for Protestants. An Italian theology lecturer who was catapulted...
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Letter: IT liberators(1)
I thoroughly agree with Jeffrey Henderson on how to compete with the United States ("To excel, simply remove red tape", THES, December 8), particularly on the use of transcripts detailing graduates'...
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Letter: Free of straitjacket
Frank Furedi makes two common mistakes among critics of quality assurance agencies ("Institutions wither in the quality straitjacket", Soapbox, THES, November 24). First, he lumps all external...
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Letter: Heretics under fire
In the five years I have subscribed to The THES, I have been struck by how often in articles distinguished scientists posit the existence of a God - even an immanent God. Does Peter Atkins ("Bishops...