Events
INHERITANCE Photographs of three generations of Welsh home and family by Peter Finnemore will be exhibited at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre (January 9-February 20). Details: Jenny Fell, Aberystwyth...
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Awards
UNIVERSITY OF WALES, BANGOR Gerwyn Williams, is the first person to win a National Eisteddfod literary competion while a member of the Welsh department. He was awarded the crown in August 1994 for...
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Tall story: the tale of a tail:Books
SEISMOSAURUS: THE EARTH SHAKER BY DAVID D. GILLETTE Columbia University Press, 205pp, Pounds 26.50 ISBN 0 231 07874 9 Americans frequently claim to produce the biggest, fastest or whatever...
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Don's Diary
Monday: Collect 31 forms for the end-of-term feedback. Horrified to discover that they are all the same for lecture courses, practical sessions and tutorials. We are asking students to grade their...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a Croydon schoolteacher who was twice prosecuted for obscenity: "But no, he would not give in. Turning sharply, he walked towards the city's gold phosphorescence....
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Speaking Volumes: James Laver's Portraits in Oil and Vinegar
Kenneth McConkey on James Laver's Portraits in Oil and Vinegar. A couple of years ago with the millennium heaving into view, I dreamt of giving up higher education to write a three-volume history of...
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Strathclyde University's theatre group
(Photograph) - Ian Skewis and Sarah Grochala of Strathclyde University's theatre group play the title roles in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida at the university's drama centre. It is being...
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Workers carry on regardless of tax rate
High taxes do not discourage people from working, say researchers in the psychology of economics. The comments come a week before the budget -- psychologists are complaining that economists are not...
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MPs pour scorn on scrutiny
MPs have condemned the Government's efficiency scrutiny of public research laboratories as a waste of researchers' time. The probe may also have been "profoundly and unnecessarily damaging to their...
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Perutz rubbishes Popper and Kuhn
Max Perutz, the Nobel prize-winning chemist, yesterday attacked the theories of science proposed by philosophers Sir Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn, dismissing them as being applicable "to only a few...
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Bill of rights
Cambridge University Students Union launched a charter for undergraduates and guidelines for graduate study this week. The union will use the charter, which sets out the standard of education and...
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Sci-fi fund
If you want to write a science soap opera, drama or serial there is money for you from the PAWS (Public Awareness of Science) drama script fund. The fund has been set up to encourage high quality...
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Eight again
Cambridge dons have voted to retain the eight-week term. Most universities operate a ten week term, often with a reading week in the middle. Lecturers were asked to vote on whether to introduce a...
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Brainy bandage
Open University technologists have won a Department of Trade and Industry award for inventing an "intelligent" dressing which alters its pressure to adjust to blood flow through the wound. Paul...
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Congestion cost
A pioneering study published yesterday has calculated that the social cost of transport in London, including congestion, pollution and accidents, is Pounds 4.69 billion a year -- nearly Pounds 625...