University of the air nears blast off
Tim Cornwell talks to an African entrepreneur whose dreams of providing an information network for much of the Third World are about to take off The "university of the air", as Noah Samara calls it,...
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Healing with good nature
If a plant can cure cancer, Paul Alan Cox is willing to hang out of a helicopter to find it, writes Julia Hinde Paul Alan Cox has brought us natural shampoos and award-winning foot cream, he has...
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Orienting the map of the world
The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book One - The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book Two
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A game in which all the players win
Pop Internationalism
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Facing up to market forces
Universities are waking up to the fact that their position as primary providers of post-secondary knowledge is under attack. Alison Goddard reports on challenges that lie ahead Seven years ago Sir...
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Paradise invented and lost
The Problem of Nature
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Commercial propositions
REPORTS FROM THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Is genetic modification of crops the hope for the future or a sure-fire route to bankruptcy? The issue was debated at this week's...
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English aid to develop Cambodia
It is true that Cambodians see English, not French, as the key to unlock the door to jobs (THES, May 12), and when one looks at where the investors are coming from (the English-using countries of...
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Exact bequest of a star-struck empire
Angkor Wat
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Why it's sayonara, Japan
Trisha Walker looks at why more and more Japanese students are choosing to study abroad Although the Japanese have been going abroad to study since the first century AD, it is only since the mid-...
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Lift buttons, libraries and the Bible Belt
Faster - The Clock of the Long Now
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Indian summer of discontent
IT HAS often been said that Britain and India share a special, love-hate relationship. Recent events have shown that it is still very much alive and kicking, and have reminded both countries of how...
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Brutality management
As the carnage in Bosnia ends, Richard Clogg asks if there are lessons in an earlier episode of ethnic engineering. Twenty miles of carts I with exhausted, staggering men, women and children,...
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The appearance of incoherence
Contemporary ÌÇÐÄVlog - Volume Five - Contemporary ÌÇÐÄVlog - Volume Four - Contemporary ÌÇÐÄVlog - Volume Six - Contemporary ÌÇÐÄVlog - Volume Two - Contemporary...
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Landscape and memory
Environment and History