10 December 2009
Bears, scares and hot air - How fear can trump facts in the climate debate
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Report damns Student Loan Company’s ‘conspicuous failures’
Sir Deian Hopkin’s analysis calls for overhaul of senior management in wake of processing blunders. Melanie Newman reports
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The insecure scholar: Charting the imbalance between reputation and career
A guest lectureship treat can’t compensate for job uncertainties
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Lord Browne begins
Fees and finance panel makes first call for evidence. John Morgan reports
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Opinion: Blood on our hands?
Academic evidence to the Iraq Inquiry points to the Government’s terrible planning, but the hearings’ remit is too narrow to tackle the big questions: the war’s legitimacy, the state’s culpability...
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Cumbria plans to ‘mothball’ historic campus
Protests greet university’s decision to end undergraduate provision at Ambleside. Melanie Newman reports
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Two vice-chancellor appointments announced
York St John and University of London name successors. Melanie Newman reports
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Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate
A more ambitious project than the contents convey is suggested by the subtitle of Ian Hesketh's book. It amounts to a discussion of what happened at the meeting of the British Association for the...
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The Canon: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. By Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a book of philosophy written in short, seemingly oracular, numbered remarks. Its conclusion suggests that those who understand its author will regard...
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Book of the week: Southern Horrors
Sexual violence was rife in the 19th-century US, as Mary Evans discovers
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Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse
Gwyn Prins on a book he says helps to wreck the chance for a mature debate on climate change
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The mythbuster
Although we may be unaware of it, a number of powerful preconceptions still dog our understanding of the turbulent history of Czechoslovakia, as Mary Heimann discovered. Matthew Reisz reports
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Published this week
ECONOMICS- The Problems of Disadvantaged YouthEdited by Jonathan Gruber, professor of economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. University of Chicago Press, £76.00. ISBN 9780226309453Taking...
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Odds and quads
Along with ketchup containers and an apple-shaped promotional radio, this Rhoda Handbag - designed by Sarah Bayley - forms part of the collection at the Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDiP).
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Caesar adsum iam forte
In a shock move, our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has announced "a major quantitative upsurge" in the amount of Latin to be used in our graduation ceremonies.Targett told...