Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 4 June 2015
Jorge Cham draws comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study
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The campus manager: friend or foe?
Laurie Taylor and Simeon Underwood offer some helpful insights into the current antipathy between academics and university managers (“Keeping the peace”, Features, 28 May). Underwood is right to...
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Peer review not yet sunk
Richard Smith says that when he was editor of the British Medical Journal, he deliberately inserted eight errors into a paper and sent it to 300 reviewers. None of them spotted more than five errors...
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Students, then salaries
The comments regarding the two-tier pay structure at the London School of Economics made by Indi Seehra, director of human resources, omit the fact that it is students’ money that is propping up the...
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The art of persuasion
Diana Beech wants “to see fairness, equality and justice prevail in any policies governing” her country. And then she voted Tory (“Attitude is everything”, Opinion, 21 May). To base one’s voting on...
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New PhDs losing the plot
The feature on a new style for PhD theses struck an uncomfortable note (“Last era’s model”, 21 May). A couple of weeks ago, I examined one such thesis consisting of introduction and conclusions...
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The criminal neglect of detective fiction
Why does the academy treat the genre so disrespectfully? Richard Bradford investigates
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Cakes, Custard and Category Theory: Easy Recipes for Understanding Complex Maths, by Eugenia Cheng
Noel-Ann Bradshaw is inspired by a book with all the right ingredients for explaining a tricky subject
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What are you reading? – 4 June 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved, by Marcia Bartusiak
The science of gravitational singularities is a head-spinning work in progress, says Tara Shears
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A Less Green and Pleasant Land: Our Threatened Wildlife, by Norman Maclean
Jules Pretty laments the sad decline and impoverishment of the UK’s natural diversity
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A day in the life of a temporary lecturer
Poor materials, disengaged students and little time or incentive to prepare dishearten one casualised academic
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On Romantic Love: Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion, by Berit Brogaard
A philosophical investigation of romance leaves Jane O’Grady feeling frustrated and unsatisfied