Taking things at interface value
Sherry Turkle's students say 'real life' is just another computer window - and it is not their best one. Ayala Ochert reports When Sherry Turkle came across a character in an internet "virtual room"...
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Hirst reaches for outer limits
Colin Pillinger tells Alison Goddard how he hopes to raise £25m to buy the spacecraft Beagle 2 a ticket to find life on Mars Last month, Colin Pillinger unveiled the latest weapon in his quest to...
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Economics PhDs explain the lure of the private sector
Ravi Balakrishna has just completed an economics PhD at the London School of Economics and is about to take up a post at the Bank of England. "It's unlikely that I'll be an academic in the future...
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Economic rent
Unless pay soars, there will be no British economists teaching in universities by 2009, warn Stephen Machin and Andrew Oswald Gavyn Davies looks dull. He is of average height, has greyish brown hair...
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The Anglo-American Conference of Historians
For almost three-quarters of a century, the Anglo-American Conference of Historians, held annually at the Institute of Historical Research in London, has been the setting for both up-to-date gossip...
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Prejudice and pride in noble pedigrees
Lisa Jardine says that beliefs about horses hold the key to early-modern thinking about race A 16th-century painting by Titian shows the Habsburg prince, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, secular head...
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Into the darkness
Slavery was established in parts of the world aeons before the US was even a twinkle in Washington's eye and it was rarely restricted to one race or group. So how, asks David Brion Davis, did chattel...
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A people denied its great expectations
Why do so few black actors land the top parts in television dramas? Stephen Bourne investigates In 1996, a young journalist asked me who Paul Robeson was. My heart sank. I remembered something I had...
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Hatred of the partially familiar
New racial hostilities are surfacing towards those whose difference is hard to pin down. By Paul Gilroy Discussions of race pose moral challenges that historians must be prepared to explore....
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The art of constructing scientific stereotypes
Artists helped create the notion of a human hierarchy based on facial characteristics, argues David Bindman Race emerged as a scientific concept in the late 18th century, and continued throughout the...
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Putting on a brave face
Native American identity is constantly shifting and redefining itself to survive the challenges of different ages, says Jonathan King In a 1996 American movie Mars Attacks!, Martians are portrayed as...
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Cleansing ethnicity from the conflict
Concentrating on ethnicity as the driving force in recent Balkan history distorts the picture, says Nergis Canefe History is not a science. According to the etymological roots of the word, it is the...
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World Watch
A Moscow State University student taking a lunchtime walk through the campus park died when an unknown attacker slashed her throat with a knife. Zukhra Saitova, a 19-year-old third-year philosophy...
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Queen's Birthday Honours
LIFE PEERS Sir Ronald Oxburgh, KBE, rector, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine; Vivien Stern, secretary general, Penal Reform International. KNIGHTS William Adsetts, OBE, chair of...
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The College of Law
The College of Law has launched its own student loan scheme in collaboration with NatWest bank. Under a special deal, students can take out loans currently fixed at 6.25 per cent or variable loans at...