First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an author who won a Nobel prize but was forced to turn it down: "On they went, singing 'Eternal Memory...
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Reflections on life in the legal fast lane
The Justice Game
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Humour that tickles God
Redeeming Laughter
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Record of our time as it ebbs away
Modern Times, Modern Places
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Cheep imitations of human thought
Despite many efforts to prove otherwise, the minds of animals are profoundly different from ours. We should stop trying to compare animals to us and start thinking about them as they are, argues...
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The living document
Is oral history a useful and reliable research tool? Academics are divided on the issue, says Harriet Swain Derek Lovatt, a 58-year-old recovering alcoholic, describes on tape growing up in the post-...
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Higher channels
John Davies selects radio and television programmes. (All times pm unless stated.) FRIDAY january 1 Global Sunrise (7.00 UK Horizon). How wildlife around the planet reacts to the dawn. First shown...
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Survival of the fitter
At a time when Labour is desperate to break the middle-class stranglehold on universities, Alan Thomson asks two working-class lecturers how they coped at college Roger Undy is a rarity among Oxford...
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Strange bouquet
Julia Hinde reports on a new controversial classification of plants, based not on their appearance but on their genes Step into Mark Chase's Kew Gardens laboratory and there is not a plant in sight....
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The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
* The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council has redesigned its postgraduate studentships to make PhD holders more useful to industry. It will increase them by 10 per cent next year.
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Striking back
(Photograph) - Women students at the Jordanian University in Amman protest at the US/UK air strikes. Demos also took place in Damascus, Jakarta, Kuala Lumper and Beirut.
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I'm manic, do you mind?
The pressure to feel happy at Christmas can make students feel lonely and isolated. Olga Wojtas finds out how university staff are being taught greater awareness in dealing with mental illness, from...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Spend the afternoon entertaining my two-year-old by getting into top gear for Christmas. Spend the evening frantically preparing for three hours of Beowulf the following day with the second-...
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Industry white paper has academic approval
Plans to commercialise university research, announced in the white paper on competitiveness last week, have received a positive response from academics. Rodney Eastwood, director of planning at...
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Lab loses radioactive package
Radioactive material has gone missing from Cambridge University, leaving the institution facing two criminal investigations. This week the Environment Agency confirmed that it is conducting...