Keeping the plough ahead of the stork
Eco-facts and Eco-Fiction
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No risk in thinking green
The Greening of Industry
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Big science greets a tough world
Ecologists and Environmental Politics
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Two-way traffic in the Antipodes
Ecology and Empire
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Earth's shards melded again
Humanity and Environment
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Unseasonal greetings
The Sea Surface and Global Change - The Ocean Circulation Inverse Problem - El Niño and the Peruvian Anchovy Fishery - Currents of Change
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Lecture series
The Legacy of Independence: South Asia 1947-1997 A series of four lectures, organised in association with The Times Higher Education Supplement, with support from City University, commemorating the...
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Hat trick
(Photograph) - Hat trick: in Philip Treacy's design the embryo's developing heart tubes spout out of a creation fashioned from milliner's straw
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Appointments
The Rockefeller Foundation. Gordon Conway, vice chancellor of the University of Sussex, has been named the 12th president of the foundation, effective April 1, 1998. University of Wolverhampton John...
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Killing them softly
Our archaic murder laws should be modernised to encompass mercy killing, argues Mary Warnock whose husband, Geoffrey, was helped to die in 1995 In discussing whether to permit euthanasia, the first...
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Sir Geoffrey Warnock
Sir Geoffrey Warnock, distinguished philosopher, former vice chancellor of Oxford University and Mary Warnock's husband, died in 1995, aged 72. He was suffering from a rare lung disease which was, in...
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The neuron in black Lycra
Out of the whole collection, writes Perminder Kalsi, my favourite design to work on was the black "neuron" dress made from black Lycra jersey with an asymmetric hem and embroidered twisted yarns...
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Witches and wisdom
Does a first-rate education necessarily produce a great thinker? A witchcraft trial in the 17th century suggests not. Gilbert Geis explains Halloween puts broom-riding witches into the limelight one...
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Clothes for the creation
Science and art met in a fashion show to represent the first 1,000 hours of a human's life on earth. Fashion designer Helen Storey explains No fashion collection can exist without the "invisible...
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From the plough to the plate
Killer diseases will only be eradicated from food by the advent of a regulatory agency which puts the interests of consumers above those of farmers, argue Tim Lang, Erik Millstone and Mike Rayner...