Don't ditch lectures 2
When I was shortlisted to do the Christmas lectures, I was asked what sponsorship I had and how my lectures would fit into the national curriculum. Well, I wanted to enthuse children with the...
When I was shortlisted to do the Christmas lectures, I was asked what sponsorship I had and how my lectures would fit into the national curriculum. Well, I wanted to enthuse children with the...
The Christmas lectures have suffered from media dumbing down. Whether this slump is led by the scientists or the producers is hard to discern. But Michael Faraday, who gave 19 lectures, had plenty to...
All four of the doctoral students The Times Higher is tracking ("My supervisor is great - but I can't get up in the morning", March 19) are women. Is this "girl power"? This confirms the point that...
I was taken aback by Susan Blackmore's unenthusiastic review of Max Velmans' How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains? (Books, March 26). In discussions about consciousness, there are doers who...
Vilayanur Ramachandran, renowned for his work on cognition and the brain, drew flak for using neuroscience to draft 'universal laws' of art. Anthony Freeman asked him if he had any regrets. One...
In his new book, Derek Attridge argues that a 'knot of three interwoven characteristics' lies at the core of western aesthetics. Robert Eaglestone tries to untangle this complex theory of literature...
With the prevention of obesity high on the government's agenda, Matthew Baker and Luqman Hayes ask what campuses can do to turn students on to healthy eating and sport. It can't be for nothing that...
Chemistry gives us the stuff of life - not least drugs, disposable nappies and chewing gum - but public suspicion threatens its future, John Emsley tells Geoff Watts. Type the phrase "chemical-free"...
As the Political Studies Association prepares for its annual meeting, David Baker and Philippa Sherrington dig through the records to explore the origins of Warwick's politics unit and discover a...
Brussels, 31 March 2004 Today the European Community and nine of its Member States deposited at the FAO their instruments of ratification of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for...
Brussels, 31 Mar 2004 Full text of Document 6304/1/04 Revision 01 Suite of documents 6304/1/04 Subject: Proposal for a Council Decision on the conclusion of the Framework Agreement between the...
Strasbourg, 31 Mar 2004 Alexander RADWAN (EPP-ED, D) on the proposal for a Council Regulation on the establishment of structures for the management of the European satellite radionavigation programme...
Brussels, 31 Mar 2004 Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION concerning the placing on the market, in accordance with Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, of a maize product (...
Brussels, 31 Mar 2004 Current members of the European Union are pitched in battle to attract talented scientists from the ten countries preparing to join the Union, say a team of researchers in their...
Brussels, 31 Mar 2004 Full text DG Research http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/research/i ndex_en.html