A story with a happy blending
Zoroastrians in Britain - The Good Parsi
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Left to God and freelance butchery
Liberty or Death
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A female Shangri La
Expressions and Evocations
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Universe expands as inflation soars
The Inflationary Universe - The Life of the Cosmos - Hunting down the Universe
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an old Harrovian with dynastic tendencies: "An only son of prosperous parents...
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Chairs
University of Dundee Michael Davies, geotechnical engineer and founder of the geotechnical centrifuge research centre at the University of Wales, Cardiff, has been appointed professor of civil...
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Honorary degrees
University of Edinburgh Doctor honoris causa: James Clyde, lord of appeal in ordinary, senator of the College of Justice and former chancellor's assessor; Bridget Ogilvie, director of the Wellcome...
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Appointments
Harrogate College Malcolm Rossiter, principal of Huddersfield Technical College, has been appointed principal and will take up the post in September succeeding Peter Clarke. University of Dundee...
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Fellowships
King's College, London Honorary fellowships: Struther Arnott, principal and vice chancellor, University of St. Andrews and former member of the MRC biophysics unit at the college; Robert Hider, head...
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Anyone who happens to be in the Dept, Media and Cultural Studies, University of Poppleton
Hello everybody Yes, it's Maureen. And I've finally made it to Robin Hood's Bay. If you look at the picture you can just see my cottage on the hill. Yesterday we had a wonderful walk along the cliffs...
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Like mother, like daughter
Fifty years to the day after Britain left India, Indian fiction in English is flourishing. Andrew Robinson interviews its first literary dynasty If you want to make your mark as a fiction writer,...
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Mastication and machination
Continuing the THES's series on food, Emily Gowers explains how the Romans used it as a political and social tool Roman food seems to excite an almost morbid interest. Every few years a new book of...
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Ebola in Epsom, Lassa in Luton?
As the world becomes smaller and warmer, diseases which were once confined to the tropics are now appearing in temperate zones. Robert Desowitz says it's time to get concerned Not far from London, in...
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Branded an outcast
The dismissal of Christopher Brand will not end speculation on the link between race and intelligence. Julia Hinde reports Last Friday's decision by Edinburgh University to sack self-proclaimed "...
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Ladybird ladybird
(Photograph) - Ladybird ladybird: Postgraduate Ben Raymond is a York University researcher investigating whether ladybirds find their aphid prey by smell.