Wisdom on a forecourt
The Gas Station in America
Search
-
-
Final Word
ZThis week's Final Word comes from a well-known historian of the silent screen: "It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way round." The...
-
Scrubbed lives, dead motorists
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies
-
Foresight spots key technologies
More than 20 widely applicable or "generic" technologies, including business process engineering, optical technology and software engineering, have been identified from the work of the Technology...
-
Patents threaten research
Medical research is being undermined by flaws in the patent laws which prevent scientists having access to the data they need, according to researchers from the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex...
-
Murder protests close university
The University of Botswana has been closed indefinitely following student protests at apparent government failure to investigate the ritual murder of a school student. The minister of education,...
-
Off-the-self sociology
Communitarianism has caught the imagination of politicians across the political spectrum. But can its founding father, Amitai Etzioni (above), be all things to all men - and, more importantly, women...
-
Reasons to be fearful
Why does the public find a nuclear waste repository risky? Aisling Irwin on the new academic field facing up to a tangle of sociopolitical factors. The people at Yucca mountain in Nevada State, in...
-
Pendulum swings back to stability
Ask people at work "what are you most worried about?" and the answer will be "job insecurity". There has been a 90 per cent growth in student numbers since 1980 but very slow growth in staff numbers...
-
Copyright and Europe
Charles Oppenheim (THES, March 17) asserts that the planned extension of United Kingdom copyright to 70 years post mortem does not entail harmonisation with European copyright law. Your correspondent...
-
Dialogue with disease
Lucy Hodges meets Julie Theriot, a biologist who listens to bacteria talk. In her lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Julie Theriot is busy growing nasty strains of bacteria. She nurtures listeria and...
-
A job to be workwise
Structural unemployment has become the key problem of post-industrial societies, that is, societies in which more than half the workforce is in service jobs. To speak of unemployment as structural...
-
Don's Diary
MONDAY. Wake up in a hotel room in Canton at 4am for fear of missing my flight to Zhengzhou. Having researched foot-binding in China for five years, this field trip is to be the culmination of my...
-
Intellectual rights of way
The supposed "Battle with CBI on intellectual rights" (THES, March 17) provoked by the Higher Education Funding Council for England decision on GR (funding for collaborative research) is doubly...
-
Building the professions
We should like to comment on some of the points made in Peter Smith's article (THES, February 24). Professor Smith complains that "architect" does not feature as an NVQ title. This is because...