Ocean life given lite treatment
Spectacular Nature
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Social constructions of the natural world
Contested Natures
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Fence and defence
In the Dust of Kilimanjaro
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Modern life rots the brain
Terminus Britain
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening lines,is from a former resident of Chalfont St Giles: "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree...
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Correction
In our review of Stuart Sutherland's Breakdown (16 October), he was incorrectly described as a professor of English, rather than of experimental psychology. Also, a journal was wrongly titled Bedlam...
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The brain maker
Geoffrey Hinton believes that machines have the ability to think. And, he argues, it is this artificial intelligence that will help us to understand the workings of the human brain. Helen Hague...
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Battle of the dons of war
Inspired by his grandfather's time in the trenches, Niall Ferguson attacks the academics who sent students to their deaths The first world war was a catastrophe for all Europe. It also devastated...
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Commission impossible
Lord Jenkins's report on electoral reform was published yesterday, but it simply confirms that there is no such thing as a perfect system, writes David Butler Margaret Thatcher did not like using...
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It is time to ask whether ww1 was worth so many deaths
My grandfather had just turned 16 when the first world war broke out. The recruiting sergeant believed him when he lied about his age, but before the formalities of enlistment could be completed his...
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Double speak
What's the best way to teach a second language? Alan Thomson reports on a debate that has occupied academics for over 40 years How people learn a second language is the subject of a 40-year-old...
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Higher channels
Stay media-literate with John Davies's weekly radio and television round-up. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Geology gets the blockbuster treatment in BBC2's ambitious new series Earth...
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Disability, dishonesty and maths
By focusing on the assessment, Frank Furedi fails to consider the barriers to learning encountered by disabled students. Those prepared to identify themselves as disabled will encounter...
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Disability, dishonesty and maths
Frank Furedi is concerned students are spuriously claiming to be disabled so they can get "special treatment" in examinations. The problem lies with universities. Many universities do not have proper...
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Disability, dishonesty and maths
I am grateful to Frank Furedi. Despite his thinly disguised scepticism, he has convinced me that the difficulties almost all second-year physics students experience with the mathematics have nothing...