Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab, by Tommaso Dorigo
Book of the week: Tara Shears enjoys a gossipy tale of the booms and busts involved in collaborative frontier science
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Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery, by Jonathan Lamb
Helen Bynum on a multilayered tale of an illness’ history that takes in art, science and more
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Is cash-for-papers worse than UK game-playing?
Are Chinese universities doing the same with affiliations as UK institutions do with REF, asks Jack Grove
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THE Alma Mater Index 2017: who educates the global business elite?
Our global survey gives a picture of which institutions are best at producing senior business leaders worldwide. John Elmes reports
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A new frontier: US academia under President Trump
John Morgan considers the impact on students and US scholars, and the political earthquake’s potential positives
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The week in higher education – 19 January 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Trump: is it right for academics to discuss his state of mind?
Scholars ponder the ethical dilemmas of assessing the new president from afar
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Grant winners – 19 January 2017
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Why we teach our students to read between the lies
Universities teach attention to evidence and fact-based reasoning, which 1930s Germany, 1990s Rwanda and now today’s US show us are vital, argues Donald E. Hall
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Study people, not numbers, for truth post Trump’s election
Social science must return to qualitative research to understand social and political shifts, say Pamela Prickett and Elaine Howard Ecklund
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Post-Trump, even my cheeriest students finally ‘get’ Kafka
Existentialism may now seem more relevant to philosophy undergraduates, but a woeful John Kaag shares their mood of blank despair
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The bottom line on blue-sky thinking
Although I’d agree with virtually everything in the feature on Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter (“You can’t order up a breakthrough”, 12 January), the need to push for even more funding of blue-sky...
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Not forgotten
I write regarding a blog post that appeared on 20 December, “King’s College London ‘wrong’ to erase George Carey from wall of fame” (www.timeshighereducation.com), relating to the removal from King’s...