U-turn on stem cells fails to stir scientists
Scientists at American universities were largely indifferent to last month's unexpected congressional decision to allow research using stem cells from embryos created by in vitro fertilisation,...
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Hunger strike in split Italy
Thirty Italian scientists, doctors and academics are staging a hunger strike in protest against what they call biased reporting in the Government-controlled media in the run-up to this week's...
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French fears over bioethics law draft order
Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg, France's former Research Minister, has tabled a Bill to authorise research on therapeutic cloning and human embryo stem cells. His initiative coincides with scientists'...
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Liberté, égalité and a few Polish plumbers
Politics runs through French veins but, laments Jim Shields, the debate on Europe was anything but revolutionary "You were once my hero," cried a voice from the floor. "Now I think you're an imbecile...
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Alison Wolf
It appears that many skills associated with high IQ are required for activities such as computer gaming and surfing the net Have you noticed how the national press has obsessions? At any one time,...
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João Magueijo sees pollen dance under einstein's disco ball
I wish I could be less cynical about the current fad of marrying science and art, but invariably the former provides the money, the latter the agenda, full stop. And I have seen numerous examples of...
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Flight of fancy
Swapping the title "MP" for "president" is a dream for most politicians - and the small matter of falling out with his party leader just before an election and losing his parliamentary seat has not...
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There's a time and a place...
Few can have escaped the problems facing chemistry, with university departments shutting all over the country and schoolchildren turning their noses up at the subject. But this week it became clear...
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Depressed officers?
The Association of University Teachers is so busy sounding off about problems in higher education that it may be suffering communication problems within its own walls. This week the union quietly...
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Vive la dissolution
When Lewis Elton, professor of higher education at University College London and staunch opponent of the research assessment exercise, called on academics to join him on the barricades at a meeting,...
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A healthy ego
As Westminster anxiously awaits an announcement about the future structure of select committees, The Daily Telegraph reveals that Labour's Ian Gibson is being touted as possible chair of the Commons...
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Why I am not a happy slappy pundit
Happy slapping, in so far as it even exists, is when a mobile phone with video capability is used to record assaults on strangers as a perverse form of entertainment. The subsequent footage might...
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Nukes not necessary
We don't need nuclear power to reverse climate change - just ask Germany, says Godfrey Boyle In Britain, an increasingly vociferous minority has been arguing recently that we must reopen the nuclear...
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Bring meaning to the tables
Rankings have a way to go before they truly aid student choice, say Mantz Yorke and Bernard Longden League tables attract scepticism from academics, but their primary aim is to inform prospective...
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Diversity? You can whistle for it
Tim Birkhead was tickled Pinc by a conference on creativity, not least because it was an antidote toa culture of uniformity I have just returned from a most remarkable conference. Pinc (People, Ideas...