Passionate angels work wonders
David Kingham's background in hard science does not stop him enjoying the sometimes magical process of seeding business partnerships, writes Tim Greenhalgh. The chief executive of Oxford Innovation...
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Findings: Psychopaths' itchy feet
Psychopaths pack up and move from city to city more often than the average criminal offender, according to a new study, writes Philip Fine. Researcher Sarah Hunter of Simon Fraser University, Canada...
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Findings: Getting dirty with Carmen
Nineteenth-century musicians stemmed their boredom while rehearsing for Bizet's opera Carmen by making up dirty crosswords, doing sketches of the conductor and calculating their fees, writes Natasha...
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Australia overhaul sets free market
Australia's pioneering student-finance programme, which has served as a model for reformers worldwide, is to become a market-based system. The Higher Education Contribution Scheme (Hecs) will be...
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Africans lead UK learners
Over 80 per cent of African adults in Britain are engaged in formal learning, more than the general British adult population, a survey published this week shows. The analysis of the 2002 Labour Force...
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Blurred image, sharp vision
Les Choix d'Henri Cartier-Bresson - Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Dangerous. Handle with extreme care
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
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A journey from armchair to ice-ridden seas
Voyages of Delusion
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Music outplays the mind
Beethoven
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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 admired by George Bernard Shaw: "Now, what I want is, Facts." * Entries, including postal...
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Near miss of an irascible Irishman
Charles Villiers Stanford
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Phew! Hybrids at high speed
Visible Deeds of Music
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Saint of the gutters with friends in high places
Mother Teresa
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Consigning God to ancient
The Biblical World
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Pilgrim's progress through division
The Body and the Blood