Book of the week: In Search of Civilization
Fred Inglis admires the ambition more than the paean to advertising
Fred Inglis admires the ambition more than the paean to advertising
Who can enter whose washrooms in US public universities should be a matter for kindness and common sense, not ideology, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
A coalition of the willing is battling legal, logistical and technical obstacles to archive the riches of the mercurial World Wide Web for the benefit of future scholars. Zoë Corbyn reports
Confident protocols of cultural judgement have gone. Today, amid the competing voices of 'relativism', 'essentialism' and the hectic production of culture and opinion, 'our own response' to the arts...
The publishers bill this book as "a searching critique of traditional creative writing pedagogy". Michelene Wandor's wide experience as a writer, critic and teacher certainly qualifies her to offer...
Brussels, 7 June 2006 The European Commission today adopted a communication taking stock of the GALILEO satellite radionavigation programme. The communication outlines the key components of this...
Brussels, 04 Feb 2003 The biological research centre of Szeged is hosting an international symposium entitled 'neurobiology of ageing: molecular approaches' from 7 to 8 March in Szeged, Hungary. The...
Brussels, 14 Jul 2005 Scientists from the Institut Pasteur in France, associated to the national centre for scientific research (CNRS), have revealed for the first time how and where nicotine...
Brussels, 13 Jun 2006 MEPs debated the EU research and development programme (FP7). With some â'¬54.5 billion at stake, MEPs saw this as crucial to achieving increased economic...
Paris, 6 September 2005 ESA's Integral space observatory, together with NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer spacecraft, has found a fast-spinning pulsar in the process of devouring its companion. This...
Brussels, 4 February 2005 CORDIS is the official publisher of the European Commission’s research and innovation information for participation in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) on research and...
William Empson
Stephen Phillips investigates the elusive world of bogus internet degrees and finds customers in high placesTo judge by the picture on its homepage, Robertstown University was grand, palatial even....
Brussels, 19 March 2002 In a drive to gear up research on genomics - the study of genes and their function - the European Commission has awarded €39.4 million to three large research projects. The...
Paris, 16 Feb 2004 An international team of astronomers may have set a new record in discovering what is the most distant known galaxy in the Universe. Located an estimated 13 billion light-years...