Prizes and catapults: government unveils innovation and research strategy
The government will fund more inducement prizes to solve interdisciplinary challenges as part of its new innovation and research strategy.
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Surfdom
The internet has revolutionised humanities research. But has the development of ever-more sophisticated online resources freed up scholars to explore new ideas, or made them slaves to the digital...
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The new new thing
MIT's Media Lab, long renowned for a 'Wild West' research culture that invents the future, has lost some of its cutting edge. Can a new director restore it to its creative zenith? asks Zoë Corbyn
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Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives
A reductive approach to social behaviour is bad news for democracy, James Garvey writes
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American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox
The tale of modern psychiatry's founder dominates this story of changing diagnoses, David Healy finds
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Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India
In the course of my research on 19th-century politics of prostitution, I was shocked to learn in detail about the miserable lives of prostitutes who served the soldiers of the British Army in India....
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The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making
The Poet's Freedom is an ambitious book that ranges widely through Western philosophy and literature, making liberal mention of Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Kant, Coleridge, Marx and Hegel, and quoting...
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In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: Confessions of an Accidental Academic
A pessimist's insights point to the future woes of the market-driven academy, Professor Y finds
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The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
Renaissance writers knew the seductive power of swerving. John Milton, in The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649), sensed the English people baulking at the killing of the king: "Another sort......
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News in brief
United StatesOccupy that! See you in courtAround two dozen protesters are suing university leaders over their mistreatment at the hands of the police during the recent Occupy demonstrations. The...
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Gifted flee to foreign fields as Italy is strangled by blood ties
High levels of nepotism suggested by US analysis linked to 'brain drain'. Frank Nowikowski writes
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Worldwide acclaim for ground breaking local heroines
Matthew Reisz on the awards that highlight the developing world's leading young female scientists
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Greener (but, sadly, not richer)
Institutions' efforts to cut energy use pay off, but not in the way they hoped. David Matthews writes
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You'll have to give master's a KIS unless you promise to reveal more
Institutions warned to be more transparent about postgraduate course quality, writes Simon Baker
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Grant winners
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsBasic sciences• Award winner: Mark Blamire• Institution: University of Cambridge• Value: £100,302Oxide superconductor/ferromagnet Josephson junctions• Award...