Caveats from the great exercise
YOUR OPINION piece about the RAE entitled "Open, improving and accountable" stated: "But it is equally plausible that the great research race has got more people out of bed earlier and in front of...
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Experts follow gun trail
ACADEMICS at Leicester University are warning that the Government may be jumping the gun on firearms legislation. While the House of Lords is considering amendments to gun laws in the wake of the...
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Brits add voice to life on Mars claim
FIVE months after Nasa scientists stunned the world with supposed evidence of past life on Mars, British microbiologists have discovered features on a chip of Martian meteorite that add weight to...
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Search for clue to sale fever
IT'S THAT time of year again: people are flocking to shops hoping to snap up a few of the many bargains promised in the New Year sales. But when is a bargain really a bargain? "Very occasionally,"...
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Real world, virtual risk
Against the Gods
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From bedazzled to besmirched
Anthony Eden
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Leaders of the pack set the pace
Our economic performance has improved markedly only since we started to offer opportunities for advanced professional and vocational training to a much larger slice of the population Nineteen ninety-...
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Liberty, neutrality, equity
Justice as Impartiality
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The brutal test of civilisation
Inhuman States
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Speaking Volumes: Edmund Leach's Political Systems of Highland Burma
On Edmund Leach's Political Systems of Highland Burma. What is the most influential book I have ever read? No contest: it has to be Edmund Leach's Political Systems of Highland Burma. My copy is the...
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Substantial fare from meagre sources
The New Cambridge Medieval History
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Israel's lost PM
Moshe Sharett - Ben-Gurion's Spy
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from a novel published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and...
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In with the new
What will the sciences look like in 1997 and who will be the people to watch? Graham Lawton, in the final part of the series, spots the projects to watch CELL DIVISION In Cell division is a delicate...
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In with the new
What will the sciences look like in 1997 and who will be the people to watch? Graham Lawton, in the final part of the series, spots the projects to watch SOLAR NEUTRINO EXPERIMENT Some 6,800 feet...