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Indian who cast aside caste was no shadow of a man
In the Shadow of the Mahatma
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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 work that features a lady of crime with a taste for disguise: " 'There's no such thing as a perfect...
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The palette and the pipette
How has the relationship between art and science evolved? Physiologist Frances Ashcroft discovers a common purpose with painter Benedict Rubbra Painting is a science and should be pursued as an...
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The palette and the pipette
How has the relationship between art and science evolved? Helen Haste finds that the philosophical debate between the 'two cultures' is still raging Passion is running high about science - about its...
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Drama on a universal scale
Inspired by A Brief History of Time, Robin Hawdon brought to the stage modern science's conflict with religion. But his use of details from Stephen Hawking's life angered the physicist From the start...
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Science takes centre stage
Adapting science for the stage has become something of a trend. A recent success is Michael Frayn's Copenhagen, which has been running in London's West End for 18 months. The play depicts the meeting...
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The palette and the pipette
How has the relationship between art and science evolved? Below, Elaine Williams previews an exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery that focuses on the representation of the human body in medicine...
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Creating Sparks
The palette and the pipette. Frances Ashcroft will speak in the discussion Strange and Charmed: Science and the Contemporary Visual Arts with Sian Ede, A. S. Byatt, Martin Kemp and Richard Wentworth...
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'It's just like undressing a woman'
What draws scholars to grubbing around in the dirt under the blazing sun and sifting soil for shards of pottery? To find out, Jennifer Wallace joined an archaeological dig in Israel There are three...
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Flaws in case for pay by region
Oswald resists the conclusions of his own argument because it leads to the need for a clear distinction between pay and allowances rather than their conflation. In short, if we want the same job done...
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The wrong league
What have students' entry qualifications and graduates' employability to do with the quality of training of effective teachers ("Elite schools rival sector in teacher training", THES, September 1)?...
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Spitalfields' soul
Universities do not have souls ("London Guildhall is accused of selling its soul to the City", THES, September 1). However, the old City of London Polytechnic did have a fairly democratic forum, the...
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A modem in the hand
Paul Taylor's indictment of technology ("Beware geeks bearing modems", Talking Shop, THES, September 1) misses the mark. Unlike Luddite,"geek" says nothing about the technological proclivities of an...
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A 'right' or wrong
Sarah Fitzpatrick (Opinion, THES, September 1) reminds us of the claim that graduates earn on average Pounds 400,000 more than non-graduates over their lifetime. That means Pounds 88,000 to Pounds...