Online site aids search for grads
Employers throughout Ireland can now headhunt graduates online through a new website. Careers advisers at Northern Ireland's two universities believe the site will help combat the province's skills...
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Surrey project wins Nasa cash
A technology spin-off from the University of Surrey has won a contract from American space agency Nasa to research the development of a worldwide communications standard based on internet protocols (...
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Name game
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) is meeting in Japan next Friday to decide on the process for creating new generic top-level domains. Icann, which is in charge of...
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Oxford bagged
A Queensland inventor who changed his name by deed poll to Oxford University in an attempt to prove he has the right to keep the domain name www.oxford-university.com has lost his case. A World...
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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 historian who had a second go as first lord of the admiralty: " After the end of the World War of...
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Holocaust on the right side of kitsch
Reading the Holocaust - German National Identity After the Holocaust
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Multifaceted poet with a good line in kitchen utensils
Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition
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Sceptical examination of belief disguises surrender
How We Believe
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Insomnia that saved the planet?
The Kyoto Protocol
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Beneath the butterfly hunter's camouflage
Nabokov's Butterflies
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Leeches were not the only option
Research shows Anglo-Saxons could teach today's herbalists a thing or two about healing Although they might appear less advanced than other Dark Age cultures, it seems the Anglo-Saxons could hold...
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Four of the 11th-century therapies
* FOOT ACHE Take helenium roots and boarthroat roots and dock roots. Boil very well in butter; drain out through woollen cloth; let cool. Afterwards, smear the swelling; he will soon be better....
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Following in our ancestors' footwear
Patricia Reid has been literally following in our ancestors'footsteps. The postgraduate student at University College London has tracked a route back to the lives of ordinary people in the Dark Ages...