Prof in lather about soap
Professor Baumann, a folklore studies tutor at Tubingen University, is in his local pub boozily talking over the theme of tomorrow morning's seminar with a colleague. He finally hits on it: "A...
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Real-life soap: Hermann Bausinger, professor at the Ludwig Uhland Institute in Germany
(Photograph) - Real-life soap: Hermann Bausinger, professor at the Ludwig Uhland Institute in Germany, has written to the makers of a German soap opera to complain that their fictional Professor...
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Mothering with a spot of infanticide
Aisling Irwin talks to Jane Goodall, the first zoologist to credit chimpanzees with personalities. The dramatic moment when chimpanzees were first spotted using tools: "Evered, as he climbed through...
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The worth of nations
Rob Brown reports on the career of Tom Nairn, the Scottish writer and academic who believes that resurgent nationalism does not need to be nasty Those who check the planet's pulse by tuning into TV...
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Water and troubled oil
Greenpeace may have won the political battle to stop Shell sinking its oil platform, Brent Spar, at sea but it has not won the scientific debate. Ragnar Lofstedt describes how the activists were able...
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0.85 seeks 0.7 for 2.4
What we all want in our perfect partner, says Devendra Singh, is an ideal waist-hip ratio. David Charter checks out his figures Devendra Singh has a high waist-hip ratio. He is living proof (thanks...
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Not quiet on the university front
Universities in August - a different world from the chalk and talk of term time. Those not familiar with higher education probably have an image of a large oak door firmly closed with a sign on it "...
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Quality and priority
I read with interest Ron Johnston's letter (THES, August 4) on the implications of the forthcoming Research Assessment Exercise for the funding of grade 5 departments. The Higher Education Funding...
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The relativity of theory
Mr Finney says that, far from being deleterious to academic freedom, critical theory is "about opening spaces for those who have been marginalised or disenfranchised by traditional approaches and...
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The relativity of theory
Patrick Finney's near-assertion (THES, July 28) that academics who do not jump on every theoretical bandwagon should remain unemployed was breathtaking (and I say this as someone who is happier with...
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The Asian renaissance
I note that James Boswell died 200 years ago and Robert Burns followed a year later. This leads me to reflect on something that I have always found interesting: the Scottish renaissance of the 18th...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. I spend the first part of the day arguing with my head of department about a trip I have to make to Mutare, 600km east of Bulawayo. Two students are based there for their industrial...
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The relativity of theory
The arguments in "Sacred cows' herd instinct" (THES, July 21) were not helped by those touches of sensationalism. The author was a "former adherent" (addict? cult follower?) and remained "anonymous...
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Dr Do-lots
Though I have done the state some service (and they know't), a deep and vociferous scepticism greeted your announcement (THES, July 21) of my having been awarded an honorary degree. The DLitt...
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Ethics and the anonymous dyslexic
In a letter to the (THES, July 14) Professor Pointon used my article about dyslexia and students' undertaking of initial teacher education to advertise his work and to make some empirical assertions...