Here, Tim Wu takes as his theme the US' domination of the information industries throughout the 20th century. Starting with telegraphy and telephony in the late 19th century and moving through film,...
A quick internet search will reveal a subgenre of homemade joyriding videos uploaded by teenagers across the UK. These clips typically show rather grainy footage of several cars being raced around...
A laudatory biography transports Benjamin Ivry back to the time of a great innovative scientist
The planet Mars, often our nearest planetary neighbour, holds a special fascination for those of us whose attention is apt to wander from our immediate surroundings. The sight of that coloured fleck...
His learning curve is great," Barack Obama's top adviser David Axelrod once told a reporter, recounting how he coached Obama to make vivid use of the stories told to him by voters during his US...
A persuasive analysis of the training/employment mismatch leaves Roger Brown looking for answers
In the early 1990s, the hottest (or coolest) of the new African-American intellectuals, Cornel West, was asked to compare his reading of race with that of the architect of Afrocentrism, Molefi Kete...
"Eat well, crap well, and don't be afraid of death" was, Emanuela Scarpellini assures us, a Tuscan peasant saying. It is a philosophy worth remembering when you next enter the wonderful restaurant...
JapanMedia frenzy ends with arrestA week-long media frenzy in Japan over cheating in university entrance exams ended with the arrest of a 19-year-old student. Police had been asking the internet...
Tough line taken after series of assaults and deaths linked to student drinking. Clea Caulcutt reports
Women have the edge over men when it comes to enrolling on undergraduate and master's programmes in Canada - but may be hitting a glass ceiling at the doctoral level.New figures show that while women...
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Sic semper tyrannis
Brown UniversityGordon S. WoodA history professor who has been taught to "accept the limitations of life" by 50 years of study has received the National Humanities Medal, a prestigious US honour....
Latin American nations ranked by research paper outputData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 2000-31 October 2010Region rankWorld rank CountryTop field by...
French court dismisses scholarly author's action against editor for negative notice, writes Paul Jump