A message to Santa
Even the most magnanimous of Santas would be hard pressed to fill the stockings of the increasingly beleaguered scientific community. Thousands of contract researchers would like permanent jobs,...
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Hedonists pollute Christmas spirit
As an Asian Muslim who grew up in northern industrial England, I recall Christmas as a time of exciting films on television and nativity plays at school. I fantasised about being one of the three...
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Are your relatives strange or simply replicas?
Eccentric and Bizarre Behaviors
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Burma's pacific Maud Gonne
Freedom from Fear and Other Writings
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Disunited kingdoms
An English Empire
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Fearless in the face of evidence
Galen's Prophecy
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Football fans suffer in government targets
Pleasures and Pastimes In Medieval England - Medieval England
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Liberation theology
The Oxford Illustrated History Of The Crusades
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Muddied claims of a psychosleuth
On Flirtation - Terrors And Experts
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Whole truths false in part
Frontiers of Complexity
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Woolly tales and sightings of Uranus
The Faber Book of Science
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Final Word...
This week's Final Word comes from a post office clerk's childhood memories of rural life: "As she went on her way, gossamer threads, spun from bush to bush, barricaded her pathway, and as she broke...
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Forsyth's FE switch sparks row
A row has erupted over a decision by Michael Forsyth, Secretary of State for Scotland, to transfer responsibility for further education bursaries from local authorities to colleges. Rosemary McKenna...
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Appointments
QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE, EDINBURGH. The following have been appointed to the governing body: Thomas Band, former chief executive of the Scottish Tourist Board; Fiona Ballantyne, managing director of...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Professors: Stephen Busby, reader in the school of biochemistry; Jayne Franklin, reader in medicine and honorary consultant physician; Baz Jackson, reader in bioenergetics;...