Historian fears for academic freedom in Israel
An Israeli historian who has supported the call for an academic boycott of his country believes he may be fired by the University of Haifa. Ilan Pappe said Haifa's dean of humanities had called for...
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More join RAE lynch mob
The integrity of the research assessment exercise suffered another setback this week as academics called for an inquiry into the dismal performance of pharmacology and physiology. The two disciplines...
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Taxonomy faces extinction in UK as cash dries up
The scientists who discover, describe and classify new species are facing extinction, writes Steve Farrar. According to the House of Lords science and technology select committee, systematic biology...
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Environment suffers damage
The Natural Environment Research Council has cancelled the summer round of its Standard Research Grant awards - worth £10 million - in a bid to address a £13.2 million financial shortfall, The...
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Daily news
Libraries told to turn over new leaf to survive The traditional role of British libraries as bastions of free reading and quiet study could end within 20 years unless they adapt to modern users’...
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Reader's digest of the ill-chosen few
The Oxford Companion to Music
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Drawn to the Indian subcontinent on a Hindustani air
Music of the Raj
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Catering for 10 billion
The Future of Life
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a deliberately plain work: "The purpose of this book is to help officials in their use of written...
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The more the merrier in quest for natural knowledge
Visualizations
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Walker's picture perfect is cut dead
Walker Evans
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Lament of an untamed cynic
Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England Volume III
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Clear view of a 'boggy' religion
Religion and Public Culture
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Krishna didn't give a dam
Hinduism and Ecology
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Displaced man and far-off God
The Numinous Legacy - Faith, Science and Understanding