Navel-gazing in another universe
Anthropology gets in the way of this wander through the new virtual wonderland, finds Grant McCracken
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Darwin's Garden: Down House and The Origin of Species
Tennyson's phrase "red in tooth and claw" has long attached to Darwinian nature. Yet Darwin was always, and sometimes mainly, concerned with plants. As he explained in On the Origin of Species (1859...
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Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe
This book was published to coincide with the exhibition organised by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in association with the Department of Special Collections of the Stanford University...
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Published this week
(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- (?)Patronizing the ArtsBy Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan Jr professor of English and of visual and environmental studies, Harvard University. Princeton...
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From where I sit: Psychologists in the firing line
In sanctioning the Bush Administration's use of torture, the corruption of American attorneys is common knowledge - but are academic psychologists also partly to blame? A book published this summer,...
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Targett denies 'buggers' charge
Our Director of Corporate Affairs Jamie Targett has vigorously denied his involvement in a video clip currently available on YouTube.This clumsily filmed clip appears to show Targett talking to...
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Summer off? Not likely
Tim Birkhead dispels the myth that lecturers spend three months on the beach
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Leader: Errors that truly merit derision
In denigrating students, devaluing teachers and equating degrees with big salaries, the media and the Government damage society
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Tim Cooke, 1947-2008
A pioneer of multidisciplinary cancer research, described as a true visionary in the field, has died.
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Perils of a new kind of peer review
It is encouraging to see the research assessment exercise (RAE) subpanel chairs arguing in Times Higher Education that peer review should remain at the heart of any future system of research...
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Objectors are not arrogant 1
Michael Pittilo of The Robert Gordon University asserts (Letters, 28 August) that academics' objections to alternative medicine degree courses are "arrogant", and he claims, as a fact no less, that...
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Objectors are not arrogant 2
Lord Winston's recent BBC programme Superdoctors was a masterly explication to a lay audience of how stem-cell treatment for advanced heart disease can be evaluated in a randomised, double-blind,...
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A spell of absurd arguments 1
William Gibson of Oxford Brookes University says that I haven't quite got the hang of reductio ad absurdum (Letters, 28 August) and that I can't cry foul if he reduces to absurdity my principles by...
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A spell of absurd arguments 2
I do realise that it has been the silly season, but the time has come to ask why Times Higher Education has published an article and two letters on the English spelling system written by a...
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A spell of absurd arguments 3
Ken Smith notes that his name is a near-anagram of "mistaken" and an anagram of "me thinks" (Letters, 21 August). He is lucky. It has been pointed out to me that Professor Hugh McLachlan is an...