Breaking totem's taboos
In his review of The Freud Files: An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis (29 March), John Forrester berates the fact that we did not write a cultural history of psychoanalysis and its...
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Grit and pearls of wisdom
Your focus on the value of failure is to be welcomed ("Get back in the saddle", 29 March). It may well be salutary to stress that all need not always have prizes. It is surely also true that...
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Rune with a view
The "pictured engravings" in "Norse code" (12 April) are not runes, but the only figural ornaments accompanying the 33 12th-century Norse runic inscriptions in Maeshowe (which is a chambered cairn,...
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We're only unclogging the 'brain circulation' (1 of 2)
It is flattering that the chief executive of Universities UK has been so impressed by the "marketing" of Dutch universities in the UK that she has spent some of her valuable time writing about it in...
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London Met links with stag-do firm
Master's course offers expert oversight from 'spa with strippers' tour operator. Jack Grove reports
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Richard Descoings, 1958-2012
Richard Descoings, who was the director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, has been described by colleagues as "a tremendously charismatic figure" and has been praised by Nicolas Sarkozy,...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineLess is moreScientists have identified a gene that reduces the risk of younger women contracting breast cancer by lowering their oestrogen levels. A...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Boston College dispute moves to appeals court
A transatlantic wrangle over whether material collected in an oral history project can be used as evidence in a criminal investigation has moved to a US appeals court.
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The week in higher education
? Sociology featured heavily in most media outlets this week, although it was down to research showing that stripping skills are on the slide because of the recession. Researchers at the University...
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From where I sit - Filtering Bologna's muddy waters
When higher education ministers from 47 countries of the European continent meet in Bucharest on 26- April to pronounce on the next steps for the Bologna Process and the construction of the European...
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Odds and quads
This sample comes from the laboratory where Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) left a number of glass plates coated with bacteria overnight in 1928. It was this that led him to stumble upon the...
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Appointments
Council for Assisting Refugee AcademicsStephen WordsworthThe Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (Cara) has named the former British ambassador to Serbia as its executive director. Stephen...
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Children of the revolution
For the late Julia Swindells, radicalism and friendship were always intimately linked. Here, she describes the youthful influences that led her down a political path