Praise the lard!
Our ideal of beauty may be absurdly thin now, but history shows fat will become absolutely flabulous again Try this regime for six weeks: eat fat, as much of it whenever, wherever you please, in any...
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Money modellers miss the point
Economists must address the real world or risk losing their best students and researchersto other disciplines What is wrong with contemporary academic economics? There seems little doubt that...
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Sex and slugs and rocky roles
What happens when boy-girl meets girl-boy? If they're slugs living north ofManchester, not a lot: they just mate with themselves. Steve Jones explains the origins of sex Look at the fashion pages,...
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Bird songs tune into the wild
Why do small birds risk attracting predators by singing atop trees? Peter Slater tells Julia Hinde his theory, which he will flesh out in a forthcoming Darwin lecture In a world teeming with...
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Why Will was no great shakes before the spin
Were the greatsborn great or are historians the victims of some polished cross-century hype? Harriet Swain reports. It is hardly surprising that an age which produced Liz Hurley, who shot to fame by...
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East, West, talk is the best
The recent Islamophobia in the press results in a kind of Westophobia among Muslims, points out Akbar Ahmed, who says dialogue is the only way forward. The reaction to Prince Charles's speech last...
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Awards
Royal Academy of Engineering The academy's engineering graduate prize was awarded to the following: Martin Davy, mechanical engineering, University College London; Helen Emerson, civil engineering,...
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Honorary Degrees
University of Melbourne. James Dewey Watson, president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Nobel Award winner in medicine and physiology (1962) for his pioneering research into DNA, was awarded an...
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Chairs
University of Wales College of Medicine. Tudor Griffith, former reader in the department of diagnostic radiology, has been awarded a personal chair. University of Leeds Robert Mueller has been...
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Poor encouraged
Cambridge University Students' Union has launched a handbook to encourage more state school applicants. Every state sixth form will receive the Target Schools Handbook. Topics addressed include: "Do...
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Death offering
Students may find themselves unable to refuse the offer of a new course on Italian-organised crime at the University of Kent. Italian lecturer Tom Behan has prepared a new course for 1997 on the...
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BSE research boost
The Office of Science and Technology has earmarked Pounds 17 million from the 1997/98 science budget for research into BSE and related diseases, including scrapie in sheep. Science minister Ian...
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Talks held on universities buying loans co.
THE COMMITTEE of Vice Chancellors and Principals is investigating the feasibility of the universities buying the Student Loans Company. The CVCP's director of policy development, Tony Bruce, will be...
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Warning over animal organs
In the week that the Department of Health was expected to publish a report supporting animal to human organ transplantation, a leading scientist warned that such transplants could result in the...
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Bradford street paved with strikers' gold
Wages saved by Bradford University when its staff went on strike may be used to pedestrianise part of the campus, writes Julia Hinde. Members of the Association of University Teachers say they are...