What are you reading? – 25 August 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything, by Adrian Bejan
From climate change to artificial intelligence, constructal law has a theory, says Richard Joyner
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Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines, by Jennifer A. Reich
Helen Bynum on a study of current immunisation practices in North America and the rise of the home-grown expert
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Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology, by Gary T. Marx
Paul Bernal on a vital and comprehensive survey of how our era of ubiquitous observation arose
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Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible, by Jem Bloomfield
Seeking a deep conversation between Scripture and the Bard’s works is a fool’s errand, argues Peter J. Smith
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New and noteworthy – 25 August 2016
The score on Brian Eno, the struggles of America’s down and out in cheap motels, and how our forebears slept
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Whatever happened to the campus sexual revolution?
Lincoln Allison takes a fond look back at the permissiveness prevalent at universities in the 1960s and 1970s, while a more ambivalent Susan Bassnett recalls a reality that didn’t quite live up to...
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How campus libraries became the place to read, pray, learn
Jack Grove learns how sites have been reinvented for the 24/7 digital age, while Donald Brown reflects on the role libraries played in his journey from the Mississippi Delta to Oxford
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Laurie Taylor – 25 August 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Erasmus is more than a bargaining chip
It is imperative that the UK commits to participating in the student exchange programme post-Brexit, says Tim Farron
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Standards fall when satisfaction is the name of the game
Treating students as consumers has precipitated a rush to the bottom to give them exactly what they want, says John Warren
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Supervisors can do a lot more to support PhD students
Many doctoral candidates feel poorly looked after. More awareness and empathy from academics can help fight that, says Geoffrey Cantor
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Forging links in business chain
Increased links between business and universities are an unalloyed good, and not only because they may help to fill a gap in government funding; the accumulation of knowledge should not remain within...
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Scholars in the lead
Thank you to the anonymous writer for raising the issue of useless headhunters (“Useless management headhunters damage academic leadership”, Opinion, 18 August). In 2014, the executive recruiter...