Animal tests: facts not emotion
Generalising research findings across different populations is, as trained scientists ought to know, methodologically unsound guesswork. In the case of human medicine the real, the only, test is the...
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UN hit by vigilantes
The US and UK's unilateral strikes against Iraq have undermined the UN's mission, say Iraq represents a clear and present danger to the United States and the world. These words were invoked...
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Why I ...
I think children should learn economics well before Christmas There is a link between the toys children pester their parents for at Christmas, how the economy works and how it can manipulate us....
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Canaries to Turkey
The Complete Birds of the Western Palearctic on CD-Rom. Edited by David Snow & Christopher Perrins. Oxford University Press, +44 1865 267979 ISBN 0 19 268579 1 - Pounds 199+VAT. Windows 3.1,...
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Innocence rewarded
Top prize in the Europrix 98 multimedia art contest (www.europrix.org) has gone to Real World Multimedia for the CD-Rom Ceremony of Innocence, which won two Bafta awards in October. More than 100...
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Mind matters
The University of Arizona's web-based course on modern science and the mind, organised by Alwyn Scott, will run from January 19 to May 15, 1999. Leading thinkers in physical science, biology, social...
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Reviews
WHITE NOISE: an A-Z of the Contradictions in Cyberculture. By Andrew Calcutt. Macmillan, 192pp, Pounds 40.00 - ISBN 0 333 69955 6. Calcutt, commissioning editor for Channel Cyberia, figures that it...
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University deprived lecturer of her 'legs'
A lecturer at the University of Hull was awarded damages this week for "unnecessary stress" caused by her employer's "total lack of understanding of her disability". Joyce Field uses an electronic...
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If Sharon Stone does it, so will I
Hollywood's smoking stars are being copied by America's college youth. Jon Marcus reports from Boston United States public health officials have blamed a dramatic increase in the number of college...
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The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
* The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council has redesigned its postgraduate studentships to make PhD holders more useful to industry. It will increase them by 10 per cent next year.
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Striking back
(Photograph) - Women students at the Jordanian University in Amman protest at the US/UK air strikes. Demos also took place in Damascus, Jakarta, Kuala Lumper and Beirut.
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I'm manic, do you mind?
The pressure to feel happy at Christmas can make students feel lonely and isolated. Olga Wojtas finds out how university staff are being taught greater awareness in dealing with mental illness, from...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Spend the afternoon entertaining my two-year-old by getting into top gear for Christmas. Spend the evening frantically preparing for three hours of Beowulf the following day with the second-...
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Industry white paper has academic approval
Plans to commercialise university research, announced in the white paper on competitiveness last week, have received a positive response from academics. Rodney Eastwood, director of planning at...
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Lab loses radioactive package
Radioactive material has gone missing from Cambridge University, leaving the institution facing two criminal investigations. This week the Environment Agency confirmed that it is conducting...