Events
THE MEASURERS "The Measurers: a Flemish Image of Mathematics in the 16th Century" is part of an exhibition of mathematics from the 16th century at the Museum of the History of Science, The exhibition...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Vernon Farewell, professor of statistics and actuarial science at the University of Waterloo, Canada, has been appointed to the chair of medical statistics. The following...
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Noticeboard
(Photograph) - "The Measurers", a painting attributed to Hendrik van Balen c1600, showing instruments involved in measuring and mathematics
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Martin Gaskell, becomes the new chair of the Standing Conference of Principals
(Photograph) - Urbane future: Martin Gaskell, the urban historian and director of Nene College who became the new chair of the Standing Conference of Principals this week, aims to develop further...
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Awards
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY The 1995 Dexter Award from the Division of the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and the Dexter Chemical Corporation has been presented to William Hodson...
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Appointments
Association of Scottish Colleges The following have been appointed board directors: Ray Baker, chairman, Fife College board of management; Michael Webster, principal, Perth College; James Thomson,...
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A planetary theory to rival plate tectonics
James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis about earth's evolution must be reassessed by scientists, argues Nick Petford. Gaia James Lovelock's provocative theory of the earth is back on the agenda with the...
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Don's Diary
Sunday. To church with family (Enid, four, and James, two) as usual. Support for coming week gleaned from hymn "Forth in thy name O Lord I go, my daily labours to pursue". Today's daily labours...
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Minister queries growth push
Eric Forth, the new higher education minister, has called into question assumptions by university heads and captains of industry that renewed growth in higher education is needed. A Government...
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Rebel MP lost faith over threat to quality
Alan Howarth, who crossed the floor of the Commons to join Labour this week, is the second ex-further and higher education minister to say his disillusionment with Conservative politics was linked to...
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Chicago's Nobel economy boom
Chicago University's long-running success in producing Nobel laureates continued this week with the award going to Robert Lucas for his theory dealing with the "rational expectations" that underpin...
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A class sister act
American feminist icon bell hooks talks to Sian Griffiths about race, gender and her rise from humble Kentucky roots. I have borne five children and I seen 'em mos all sold off into slavery, and when...
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A tongue-tied time warp
British foreign language learning policy lags behind the rest of Europe and must be updated, argues Robert Clark. As I took plane to Stockholm for the European Commission's conference on "Language...
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Did Churchill kill Il Duce?
An Italian historian claims that Churchill had a wartime correspondence with Mussolini and urged his death to cover it up. Paul Bompard sifts the evidence. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was shot...
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Old scripts, new insights
Are hieroglyphs making a comeback? Andrew Robinson examines ancient and modern writing. Writing is among the greatest inventions of human history. Yet it is a skill most writers take for granted. We...