Beauties of the second rank
Isherwood - Stephen Spender
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No banana-eating snakes or flying donkeys are to be found here
Life's Solution
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a musician's autobiography: "I could see men of all colors bouncing along in the boxcar." * Entries,...
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Dip your toes into wet computing
Molecular Computing
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Entertained by Pavlova, Piaf and a naked tickling spirit
The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System
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Fruits of aeons of cultivation
A Little History of British Gardening
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Where lyrics and lilies flowered
The Gardens of Emily Dickinson
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Toxins, tonics and trips
Dangerous Garden
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Globetrotter that put down roots in manor
Rhododendrons are one of the most important groups of plants in the gardens of the British Isles and of North America, yet most species come from Asia and from the tropical vireyas from the mountains...
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Pass rates are all about the cash
I share Annette Marshall's reservations (Letters, July 9) about the fiddling that happens between exam marking and meetings of boards of examiners and at the meetings themselves. One always has the...
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Good for your health? 1
The best way to judge the value of animal experimentation is to examine the nation's health and the vivisection-based National Health Service (Features, July 9). The NHS founding fathers genuinely...
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Good for your health? 2
The vivisection fraternity has had it too good for too long. It has been avoiding a real scientific debate on animal experimentation for decades, hiding behind the "your-child-or-the-rat" argument...
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Good for your health? 3
It is difficult to understand why individuals such as Marlene Thomson (Letters, July 2) distort the truth about the value of animal experiments to medical research: "Cardiovascular systems... of...
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Unmask Gats
The perspective on the General Agreement on Trade in Services presented by Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin (Opinion, July 2) is misleading. Although Vincent-Lancrin may be correct in saying that no country...
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No easy answers
Readers may have been puzzled by your eye-catching headline last week "'Bums-on-seats' policy leads more students to drop out" because the story failed to identify the source of the research from...