Search

150,015 results
Page 7217 of 150015 results

  1. A time bomb for the 21st century

    Chemical warfare is a growing threat, but we know very little about its long-term implications, argue Christine Gosden and Derek Gardener. The 20th century provided a catalogue of weapons that could...

  2. Funders to 'collaborate'

    The research councils should be "capable of operating as a 'virtual single council'" whose boundaries are invisible to the people they work with. This is the message of the quinquennial review of the...

    #News

  3. A left too lazy to look the 'Other' way

    When faced with the intricacies of Islam, the British left lacks the theoretical framework for meaningful discourse, argues Stephen Chan. The recent "exchange" of views in the London Review of Books...

    #Features

  4. Noble convictions that founded the Nobels

    The Nobel prizes are the world's most widely recognised and most coveted rewards for intellectual endeavour. Michael de Laine surveys how the awards have grown in stature since Alfred Nobel...

    #Features

  6. What does it take to be a consistent winner?

    For a Nobel, it may not be enough to be clever. Harriet Swain looks at patterns in the prize. What does it take to win a Nobel prize? First, it helps to be American. The United States took at least a...

    #Features

  7. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel whose title comes from the first speech in Milton's Samson Agonistes: "The snapshots had...

    #Books

  9. To: Dictators, Re: Torture

    Brendan O'Leary on 40 years of Amnesty International campaigning. Amnesty International turned 40 this year. The organisation, especially in comparison with most internationalist non-governmental...

    #Books