Courting disaster
Also tackling Scottish crime is Alumnus To Be Proud Of No: 45, Terence Russell, sheriff of Kilmarnock. He is unquestionably Scotland's most exciting lawyer. He last week contrived the definitive bad...
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Call to reduce role of reductionist strategy in science
The thinking behind western science that has made its dramatic successes possible has also led to blind spots and should be replaced by a new global science offering radically different approaches...
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Nolan turns attentions to governor pay
Lord Nolan's Committee on Standards in Public Life has denied it is set to call for an end to payments for quango members, including those on the boards of further and higher education funding...
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Warning of worse water pollution
Water supplies in England and Wales are set to become more polluted as a long-term result of the continuing drought, a hydrogeologist predicted this week. A third of our drinking water comes from...
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Security television fit for King's
Aberdeen University is planning a high-tech addition to its historic King's College campus - 11 closed circuit television cameras, writes Olga Wojtas. The university is awaiting approval for the...
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Institute link to be rescued
Commonwealth education in Scotland is being rescued by Northern College of Education, following the Government's axing of the 40- year-old Commonwealth Institute Scotland as part of its budget cuts,...
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Super sleuths fight heavy crimewave
Student super sleuths are springing into action on university campuses around the world in an attempt to combat crime. Last month Southampton University hosted the first international congress on...
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Time to lock horns on the beauty debate
Despite being apparently only skin-deep, the notion of human beauty raises some profoundly disturbing issues. For the skin itself is deceiving, according to the French artist, Orlan, who appeared at...
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Scots are not so different
Olga Wojtas and Huw Richards report from the Political Studies Association annual conference in Glasgow. Scots have been basking in the afterglow of Braveheart, the biopic of 13th century patriot...
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Swedish left share British Tories' Euroscepticism
The Euroscepticism of part of the Conservative right has found an echo in a very different traditional governing party, the Swedish Social Democrats. But the British rebels have been much more...
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Islam reaches into Africa
The Islamic nations of the Middle East are exerting an influence on sub-Saharan Africa comparable to that of western institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, according...
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No real consensus on the old politics
Assumptions that there was a post-war, pre-Thatcher political settlement owe more to A. A. Milne than to Machiavelli, said Peter Kerr of Birmingham University. He compared the assumption to Winnie...
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Sleep perchance to study dreams
Searches for an explanation of consciousness that do not take into account the complexities of dreaming are doomed to failure, according to psychologist Steven LaBerge. In fact the study of lucid...
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Great minds, hard problem
A man from India said that he thought he knew the problem with last week's Tucson 2 conference, Towards a Science of Consciousness. The delegates and speakers, he said, came from far too narrow a...
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Phantoms of the operating theatre
Advances in the scientific study of pain could provide crucial insights into how consciousness relates to the body and the self, according to Richard Chapman of Washington University. Professor...