Worriers need to worry to be happy
Worriers even worry about things that make them happy, it is claimed. Researchers at the University of Sussex asked students to think about the feature in their life that made them happiest and then...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an MLA icon: "High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English...
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Brushes with avian friends
The Life of Birds
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Free and energetic villeins
The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England - The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages, Volume Two: 950-1250
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In search of elusive fragments of death
Fatal Protein
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Japan's campus nurseries of power
An Empire of Schools
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Origins of the protection of fellow species
Animals on the Agenda - Animal Rights
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Patents that humble ethics
The Biotech Century - Clones and Clones
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Puzzling and fuzzy ensembles
Randomness - The Jungles of Randomness
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Reheated wizardry
The Crisis of Global Capitalism
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Three-ring circus of the literary intelligentsia
"Come to the next MLA," the aptly named American academic Morris Zapp, professor of English at Euphoric State University, advises a young lecturer from Limerick in David Lodge's novel Small World. "...
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PhDs derailed on the tenure track
US humanities PhDs can't get academic jobs. Mark Kelley says this is just a ploy to fob graduates off By the end of the year, in addition to completing my PhD coursework and taking written and oral...
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Selection of MLA prizes for distinguished scholarship
US humanities PhDs can't get academic jobs James Russell Lowell prize for outstanding literary/ linguistics study: David Wallace, U. of Penn, Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational...
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What a new-fangled web he weaves
Alan Liu runs 'The Voice of the Shuttle', a gateway to all humanities subjects posted on the internet Alan Liu compares his website to a giant redwood tree that is growing and dying at the same time...
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Nice work, if you can get it
US humanities PhDs can't get academic jobs The 1990s were supposed to look very different. In the MLA's files from 1989, there is a newspaper clipping that now reads like a sick joke. "Shortage of...