Cod sincerity? You'll fake it at your peril
Groucho Marx once said that the key to success in life is sincerity, and, he added, if you can fake that you have really got it made. Dozens of institutions - and not only political parties - have...
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A kinship that relies on parity
The British Empire came to Natal last week, or at least that is what it may have seemed like to observers. The "last outpost", as Natal was once known, was host to vice chancellors on the Council of...
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Labour in search of brain gain
LABOUR has promised to reverse the brain drain, but without putting a price on the programme it says will do the job. Gordon Brown, shadow chancellor of the exchequer, told an election press...
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Dolce vita swells the student body
Rome. It was probably the first time in history that lectures at Rome's La Sapienza University have been described in lurid prose day after day in most of Italy's newspapers. The two-day seminar on...
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Up to 100 jobs may go in astronomy shake-up
PROPOSED restructuring of Britain's Royal Observatories will cost Pounds 7.5 million over the next four years, according to the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council's latest business plan...
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Proposal to close the Royal Observatory's Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope
A proposal to close the Royal Observatory's Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope in the Canary Islands would save little money but would have a substantial scientific impact, warns Steve Unger, director of the...
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Trading in a literary sphere
A Bibliographic History of the Book - A Genius for Letters
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Philosophy vs. science
Philosophy of Science, Logic and Mathematics in the 20th Century
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Rudi, the gentle giant
Atomic Histories
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Live and let heal
Complementary Medicine and the Law
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A persecution of the best evidence
Mistaken Identification
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Properties in pastel shades
Landlord and Tenant Law
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Leaning on the Ottoman
Churchill's Secret War
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Internal combustion
On the Causes of War - The State, War and the State of War
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A great bear left bleeding
A People's Tragedy