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'Anthropological arse' in saddle
The Sport of Kings: Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newmarket
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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 penniless orphan: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day." The winner...
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Give your computer's IQ a boost
Journal of Machine Learning Research
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Take a bandwagon, genome and some small animalsI
Molecular Imaging
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Power tool sex mishaps make you see double
Annals of Improbable Research
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Laurie Taylor Column
"No stars for RAE funding change", THES , May 9. Crikey. Have you seen this letter in The THES from half the RAE panel chairs? Strong stuff. They're actually threatening to have nothing to do with...
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Alan Ryan
The professionalism of US admissions offices is a myth - what they do well is balance the demands of their many constituencies The spring mating rituals have just about come to an end, and students...
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Leader: Paying customers will want better idea of prospects
League tables are always controversial in any branch of education, especially when there is a change of methodology. The inclusion in this week's rankings of new categories of graduate jobs will be...
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The class assassin
Richard Pipes revealed a mild-mannered US maths professor as a former Russian revolutionary who betrayed his comrades then killed his boss In the autumn of 1897, a recent Johns Hopkins University PhD...
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Did the Oxford blues turn red?
Elite universities were fertile ground for recruiters to the communist cause in the 1930s. But, asks Phil Baty, did the Soviets ever manage to establish a spy ring in Oxford that came close to the...
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People's paradise, scholars' purgatory
In North Korea, students and academics struggle with limited resources, hunger, cold and the demands of a totalitarian state. But, says Jim Hoare, many remain curious and upbeat. Conventional...
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'Uterine fury' - now sold in chemists
Whereas women today worry about feeling sexy enough, their Victorian sisters were warned against 'wanton feelings' and doctors treated the clitoris as 'the source of evil'. Linda Vergnani reports....
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The man who moved Mt Sinai
By subjecting the Bible to the academic rigour that has made him one of the UK's leading materials scientists, Colin Humphreys replotted the route of Exodus. He tells Harriet Swain what happens when...
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Economics gives a good return 1
Economics is not as depressing as Alan Shipman makes out ("Dismal return of micro-men", THES, May 2). He argues that economics is too narrow and weighed down by mathematics and statistics. As someone...