Don's Diary
MONDAY. I spend the first part of the day arguing with my head of department about a trip I have to make to Mutare, 600km east of Bulawayo. Two students are based there for their industrial...
MONDAY. I spend the first part of the day arguing with my head of department about a trip I have to make to Mutare, 600km east of Bulawayo. Two students are based there for their industrial...
Memory in the Cerebral Cortex
Ben Gill's article on the Technology Foresight Programme (THES March 24) gives an inaccurate and misleading impression of the process and of the tools which were used to support the panels. Taking...
Retired Harvard professor Annemarie Schimmel tells Jennie Brookman why she defended Islamic fury against Salman Rushdie. Annemarie Schimmel seems an unlikely person to have caused the biggest...
Astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan (below) tells Stella Hughes about himself and the cosmos. Cosmic spaghetti, galactic sponges and time machines may all sound rather frivolous, but for the purveyor of...
Georg Lukacs
LINDA McDOWELL on Mike Davis's City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles It is incongruous, I know, but I always wanted to be Philip Marlowe, striding down those mean streets, unattached,...
The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book One - The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book Two
April 1995 is the second anniversary of further education colleges' freedom from local authority control. Below William Stubbs looks at their progress. Two years on from the creation of the further...
Lost Opportunity
What would you think of a course in: l French literature, based entirely on a Reader's Digest English version of The Three Musketeers l geography that still taught continental drift, without...
David Charter reports on the critical rediscovery of long-neglected women poets. Wordsworth's wandering lonely days are over. The image of the solitary Romantic hero, busy communing with nature and...
Andrew Robinson argues the case for the 'service industry' of literary biography. Why does one want to know about a man's life?" asked Alfred Tennyson. "The less you know about a man's life the...
Orientalism
The articles on genetics and crime by Adrian Raine, Krebs and Kacelnik, and Michael Rutter (THES, February 10) give an excellent picture, while the comments by other contributors add interesting...