New and noteworthy – 9 February 2017
A study of racism, where texture ends and taste begins, an oral history of Cuba, higher education’s place, and journalism today
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What Love Is and What It Could Be, by Carrie Jenkins
Polyamory could shed light on whether love is mainly biological or social, says Jane O’Grady
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The Political Orchestra: The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich, by Fritz Trümpi
Neil Gregor on the various types of orchestral life under the Nazis
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What are you reading? – 9 February 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Tim Rooth, 1939-2017
A leading authority on international trade negotiations has died
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Mexico’s CETYS plans future in shadow of Trump’s wall
Border institution co-hosts international conference with US universities as Trump presidency begins
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Topping up the trust fund: restoring public confidence in science
In a post-truth era, five academics consider strategies, from inviting laypeople into the laboratory to open vivas, to improve trust in experts
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The university as pillar of the community
Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania deploy a host of financial and intellectual resources to help locals build richer, healthier, more inclusive cities. John Morgan reports
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Academics warn about Brexit threat to university-business links
UK ‘naive’ to think that it could replace academic links with European industry with those from elsewhere
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Reality check: alongside uncertainty comes opportunity
Investing in UK science may be cheaper after Brexit but the true cost to innovation system remains to be seen, says Holly Else
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Grant winners – 9 February 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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The week in higher education – 9 February 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Deborah Lipstadt: the quest for truth in the post-truth era
How do you defeat Nazis and liars? Focus on the people in earshot, says eminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt
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Take a stand – and deliver
If Trump and Brexit are the problem, universities are part of the solution, says Sally Hunt. But we must do better than we have
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In dark days, universities must keep the lights on at home
Our age of unenlightenment demands that institutions share their intellectual and moral capital with the communities around them