Don's Diary: Seeking Hampton Court's Roots
Christmas 2000, Tuesday Daydreaming in the bath, I begin to wonder if there might be traces of an original design for Cardinal Wolsey's Hampton Court of c.1515 within the 200 years of additions that...
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A very public address
Stephen White, director of information at the British Psychological Society, is a keen member of the online science communication mailing list pcsi.com. So keen on passing on information is he that,...
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Amino royale
Princess Anne will be clearing the royal mantelpiece to make room for a gift from Edinburgh University this week. She opened its £8 million biomolecular research centre, which brings together a...
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Norwegians would
Prince Haakon and Princess Mette-Marit of Norway - Europe's most unconventional royal couple - will move to the United Kingdom in the autumn to study. The prince will do a masters degree in...
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Frisk your laptop, sir?
Belarus has tightened its controls on the export of information so that anyone wishing to take a laptop computer out of the country has to deliver it to customs for checking 24 hours before departure...
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Aerodynamic leader
St Catherine's College, Oxford, has appointed an aerodynamics expert as its new head after the sudden departure of Sir Peter Williams. Roger Ainsworth, deputy head of the university's engineering...
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Skill raiser
Congratulations to Christopher Duff, who has been appointed chief executive of the Sector Skills Development Agency, the new UK-wide body to oversee the government's drive to raise skills and...
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Vote yes or no. Or both
Students at Imperial College, London, this week held a referendum on joining the National Union of Students. The student newspaper carried two full-page adverts, one supporting and one opposing the...
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Finding fault with a salt
John Barrow of Cambridge University, lecturing the Royal Astronomical Society on cosmology last week, pointed out that vast expanses of space and time impress most people - but cut little ice with...
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Director's cut leaves scars
Donald Richie looks at the partnership of a great actor and director. Many film directors have favourite actors, and many actors have favourite directors. One thinks of John Ford and John Wayne,...
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From Fu Man Chu to a grizzly end
Travels, Explorations and Empires 1770-1835 Volumes One to Four
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Eavesdrop on history
Tracking Apollo to the Moon
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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 novel about a lifelong Scottish feud: "The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long...
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Learning to love uncertainty
Conversations with a Mathematician
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Cosmic doughnuts followed by superstring fries?
The Bigger Bang - Three Roads to Quantum Gravity