Measured successes
Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
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Pilots, parachutes and a drunk's walk
Fractals, Scaling and Growth Far From Equilibrium
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Spinning a good scientific yarn
The Story of Spin
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The road to E=mc<sup>2</sub>
Einstein's Miraculous Year
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Higher channels
John Davies selects radio and television programmes of use to THES readers. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Horizon: Chimps on Death Row Thursday 9.25 BBC2. Horizon continues the...
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'You don't know it , but history is in you'
WORLDLY WISE 15 Is Simon Schama our 'most gifted historian' or a prima donna? Harriet Swain reports. When Simon Schama was seven years old, his father would get him to declaim Shakespearean speeches...
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The nitty gritty of student choice
Are league tables here to stay? Jennie Bristow asks pairs of vice-chancellors, heads of department and students how important they think they are John Brooks Vice-chancellor University of...
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Slipping up on our apples and pears
We must move away from false comparisons, while guaranteeing minimum standards, says Michael Scott Michelangelo once addressed a group of students about perception. He went to an entirely white wall...
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Made to measure
League tables are here to stay like it or not. Leslie Wagner kicks off this year's THES Trends with a call for more value-added appraisalof university performance Value-added is the buzz word in...
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Tables turned on critics
The authors of The Times league tables are fed up with insults and want more constructive criticism Speakers at a Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals conference felt The Times league tables...
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Push and pulling power
Elaine Carlton looks at what alternative university guides have to offer student wannabes It could be the price of beer, the number of good-looking women or men, or the best place for a buzzing night...
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Hotline for not-so-blind data
HESA is in the statistics business but that does not mean league tables, Brian Ramsden argues Long ago, one evening when I was the only person left in the office, I had the dubious pleasure of...
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Cloning a Lost Lover
You weren't there any more. I don't know why, but I know you were gone, just not there any more, and I was frozen with grief. (You know how it would be. I was eating lots of salad, running four miles...
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Cloning: the story so far ...
* An anonymous American is paying more than Pounds 3 million to clone his dog, Missy. Researchers at Texas A&M University have two years in which to achieve the feat of creating the world's first...
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Even our clones will tell their own tales
The scientist is ready, the lawyer is expectant, but it is the storyteller, says Martha Nussbaum, to whom we should now listen as we consider one of the greatest ethical issues of our time ... A...