First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from someone with an instinct for the way we talk: " As you are reading these words, you are taking part in...
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Not pleasant, but very green
The Isles
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Taking the shine off fool's gold
The Secret Treasury
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Mums who like to wear tartan
The Mummies of Ürümchi
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The writing system that survived fire and confusion
Breaking the Maya Code
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Ennui? Here's life on a plate
Walter Sickert
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If you desire the sixth sense or sex, just have a sniff
Jacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Nature of Smell
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Private lives in the public eye
Voyeurism gone mad or a uniqueresearch opportunity? As TV series Big Brother begins its round-the-clock surveillance of ten British volunteers, Phil Baty talks to Oxford University's Peter Collet,...
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Losing a language to repair the past
English is usurping Afrikaans in South African universities. But, as Jennifer Wallace reports, some academics are resisting the demise of a language of oppression On top of the highest mountain in...
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'The students hang on every word, they're rapt'
Are visiting lecturers exploited part-timers or invaluable contacts with the world of work? Anne Sebba reports. Twice I have been a visiting lecturer. Never before or since have I faced such a well-...
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Three visiting lecturers explain their motivation
Thirty-four-year-old Robert Cole is investment editor at The Times and has taught financial journalism for two hours a week at City University, London, for the past six years. Cole, previously at The...
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Shaking down the Swiss
Politics professor Norman Finkelstein's controversial book accuses Jews of exploiting the Holocaust for profit. Tim Cornwell reports Fifty-five years on from the liberation of the concentration camps...
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Patently, we are getting much better
Can UK universities do more to exploit their ideas or is it British industry that is missing a trick? Ayala Ochert reports When Alexander Fleming discovered that the blue mould in his petri dish...
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The Ox-files
Oxford University's public orator Jasper Griffin has detected a sinister pattern in recent Oxford college head appointments. Colleges used to elect lawyers and philosophers as their heads, seeing the...