Water? Sorry, we're fresh out
The Los Angeles River - The Politics of Water in the Middle East - The World's Water
Search
-
-
Vermin of the sky and other worlds
Our Worlds - The Planet Venus
-
First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a picaresque novelist with an interest in siblings: " It is a trite but true observation, that...
-
Unsinkable stereotypes leave facts to founder
The Myth of the Titanic - The Titanic Story - Hard Choices, Dangerous Decisions
-
The sociology of media versus cultural studies
Mass Communication and Research Methods
-
Controlling mass media explosions
Sex, Lies and Democracy - The Sociology of Journalism - Media policy - Media Regulation, Public Interest and the Law
-
Giving the evil eye a closer look
The Face
-
Ever-decreasing rugby balls
Imaging Phonons
-
Windy with solar outbursts
Physics of the Space Environment
-
Higher channels
John Davies picks programmes of interest to THES types. (All times pm unless stated.) FRIDAY November 5 The Routes of English (4.0 R4). Focusing on Chaucer and his language. Eye on the World (9.00...
-
Dangerous liaisons
After a bloody warning from a fierce Amazonian tribe, a student research group left in a hurry. Jennifer Currie asks if such expeditions tread too perilous a path. John Groom knows he is a lucky man...
-
Cretaceous crimes that fuel the fossil trade
Brazil's illegal fossil trade is thriving. But how can it be controlled when it offers impoverished people a livelihood and supplies academics and museums with valuable specimens? Steve Farrar...
-
To craft a witch
Anne Gunter vomited, sneezed pins and was racked by fits. Was she bewitched by a neighbour or abused by her father? James Sharpe unravels a 17th-century mystery. Academic historians are a fairly...
-
And the outlook, warm ... very, very warm
Is the oil industry guilty of crimes against humanity? The industry says no; energy expert Jeremy Leggett says yes, and argues that if unchecked it could cause millions to perish. Alison Goddard...
-
Bujumbura
Burundi's first private university has opened in Bodi with 400 students in the faculties of the humanities and social sciences. Numbers will grow to 6,000 in four years with the opening of faculties...