Don's diary
Monday Fly back from Turkey, nursing scraped knees and ankles from chasing a Loew's silver-studded blue down a cliff. Great holiday. Twelve new species of butterfly, five new birds. Children noisy on...
Monday Fly back from Turkey, nursing scraped knees and ankles from chasing a Loew's silver-studded blue down a cliff. Great holiday. Twelve new species of butterfly, five new birds. Children noisy on...
Mass protests were held throughout Turkey last Sunday against the ban on religious dress in universities and other public places. Organisers claimed two to three million people took part. In Istanbul...
Harriet Swain finds that academics at summer conferences are just as likely to pack swimming trunks as a trunk full of books. It is a perfect blue-skied Venetian morning in August and you have just...
ON THE final day of a court hearing that has become known across Australia as the "Noah's Ark case", the judge questioned whether the federal court in Sydney should have been involved and asked if...
Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans
THEHEAD of earth sciences at Melbourne University is putting his professional reputation and possibly his financial future at risk by suing a creationist. Geology professor Ian Plimer has taken to...
John Davies anatomises the broadcasting week (all times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Simon Schama's epic History of Britain series starts on BBC2 with two one-hour episodes (Saturday 8.05 (...
ONE OF the world's most endangered birds, the Houbara bustard, has found saviours at the University of Abertay Dundee school of molecular and life sciences. Researchers at the university are battling...
The world's first university devoted to mountain studies is to be set up in one of Central Asia's most remote and rugged regions to focus international academic attention on mountain cultures,...
UNIVERSITIES are at the centre of an ongoing war of words between Turkey's secular and Islamic communities. Academics last week inflicted a defeat on the Islamic-led coalition when a parliamentary...
Kate Hughes looks at the common aspirations that unite Cyprus despite its geographical and political divide If history had been kinder to Cyprus, the establishment of a university in Nicosia in the...
Turkey's universities are an important political barometer - in the 1970s they were the scene of some of the worst clashes between left and right in a period of social unrest that claimed the lives...
Borders - An Ethnic History of Europe since 1945 - A History of the Balkans
Archaeologists are discovering much about ancient peoples by what was on their menus. Jerome Burne reports When you go round a museum, the last thing you expect is the smell of cooking. Archaeology...
Feminist Science Studies - Women, Science and Technology - Science Policies in the European Union - Athena Unbound