Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 The European Commission is funding an Integrated Project that aims to revolutionise the way in which information is stored and accessed, leading to the creation of a knowledge...
Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 A conference on process automation and control for the efficient management of production cycles will take place at the Milan Fair in Italy on 14 and 15 September. The event...
Paris, 25 Mar 2004 In the course of its meeting in Kiruna (Sweden) on 24 and 25 March, the ESA Council approved the accession of Greece and Luxembourg to the ESA Convention. The two countries are...
Gauguin - Gauguin Tahiti - The Way to Paradise - Edouard Vuillard
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a love story twice adapted for the opera: "I must begin by taking my reader back to the time in my...
The Psychology of Good and Evil
How could conscious experiences affect brains? The simple answer is that they could not and do not. Yet we feel as though they do. This clash between the way things seem and the way they rationally...
Multiple-choice question. Is this book: (a) "witty and ingenious"; (b) "ecstatically playful"; (c) too clever by half? Going for the third option puts me firmly into the philistine camp, opposed to...
How Children Develop - An Introduction to Developmental Psychology
The History of Psychology
In retreating from the world and politics, we all become more vulnerable - as the people and politicians of Spain have learnt, writes Bill Durodie The defeat of the People's Party in the Spanish...
Ten years after the savage genocide in Rwanda, Fran Abrams meets a woman who risked her life by standing up for her classmates. Despite losing a leg, she never gave up on her dream of finishing her...
Donor organs are scarce, but should we use xenotransplantation and stem-cell technology to fill the gap? Martin Ince looks at efforts to help clarify the ethical complexities arising from scientific...
In a note to Isaiah Berlin, who died in 1997, Henry Hardy writes about the experience of editing the letters of the renowned historian of ideas, philosopher and essayist Dear Isaiah , At last, the...