Browse Items (67 total)

'When Gould meets Galton', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-12-30; Anthropometry; Biology; Edwards, A. W. F.; Evolution; Evolutionary biology; Francis Galton; Statistics; Stephen Jay Gould

'Vidkids', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-12-30; Engineering; Ian Livingstone; Information Technology; Martin Amis; Role Playing Games; Shippey, Tom; Video Games

'A TEXTBOOK PLACE FOR BEARS', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-12-27; Bears; Biology; McPhee, John; Patricia McConnell; Zoology

'The Environment of the City', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-12-1; Briggs, Asa

'Protesting for a Brave Green World', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-12-1; Schoeck, Helmut

'Thought', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-12-1; Aspen Institute; Bill D. Moyers; Kenner, Hugh; Mortimer Jerome Adler; Philosophers; Philosophy; Public television; STS; United States

'Destination', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-12-1; Alfred Bester; Art and Fiction; Arthur Charles Clarke; Book reviews; Cordwainer Smith; Doris May Lessing; Frank Herbert; Joe W. Haldeman; Klein, Arnold; Larry Niven; Other; Pamela Sargent; Robert A. (Robert Anson) Heinlein; Science fiction; Ursula K. Le Guin

'Tubecrit', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-12-1; Book reviews; Edwin Diamond; Engineering; Powers, John James; Ron Powers; Telecommunications; Television criticism; Tom Shales; United States

'Tidings of comfort & joy', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-12-1; Alex Comfort; Biography; Bodies; Corkery, P. J.; England; Gerontologists; Medicine; Sex instruction literature; United States

'Dirty work should be shared', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-12-1; Other; Walzer, Michael; Waste and Pollution

'In a society of equals, garbage is everyone�s business', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-12-1; Compulsory non-military; Division of labor; Other; Sanitation workers; Service; United States; Walzer, Michael; Waste and Pollution

'Conventional Defence', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-11-18; Conventional Forces; Field Marshal Lord Carver; John Keegan; Military and Weapons; NATO; Neild, Robert; Other; Sir John Hackett

'Delusions About the Pipeline', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-11-1; Pearce, Edward

'II-THE CULT OF THE ATOM', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-11-1; Disasters; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Ford, Daniel; Inadequacies; Nuclear energy; Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; safety

'I-THE CULT OF THE ATOM', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-10-25; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Ford, Daniel; Inadequacies; Nuclear energy; safety

'Walking in high places', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-10-21; Charles Lamb; G.S. Rousseau; History of Science; Levere; Neve, Michael; R.S. Porter; Richard Holmes; Romanticism; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; STS; Thomas McFarland; Trevor; Winifred Courtney

'Hogwash', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-10-1; Agricultural laws and legislation; Agricultural subsidies; Chapman, Stephen; Economic conditions; Farmers; Law; Other; Rural conditions; United States

'Thinking like an economist', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-10-1; Book reviews; Economics; Economists; Lilla, Mark; Mancur Olson; Social sciences; United States

'Tons of Sums', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-9-16; Anthony Hyman; Charles Babbage; Computers; Economics; invention; Mason, Michael; Mathematician; Social sciences

'Out of the System', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-9-1; Bossy, John

'Gregory Bateson: Old Men Ought to Be Explorers', Whole Earth

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-9-1; Nachmanovitch, Stephen; Other; social movements

'Baggage', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-9-1; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airports; Brogan, Patrick; Commercial; Engineering; Hijacking of aircraft; Security measures; United States; United StatesFederal Aviation Administration

'Rich doctors, poor nurses', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-9-1; etc.; Health care reform; Medicine; Nurses; Osborne, David (David E. ); Physicians; Salaries; Staffing, Funding and Institutions; United States

'Warfare', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-1984; 1982-9-1; Engineering; Falkland Islands War; History; Israeli intervention; Lebanon; Lind, William S.; Mechanical Engineering; Military planning; Military policy; Technology; United States

'Waiting for interferon', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-9-1; Drugs; Drugs and Pharmaceuticals; Fox, Charles; History; Interferon; Medicine; Multiple sclerosis; Research; Testing; therapy; United States

'Supply-side economics goes to the zoo', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-9-1; Biology; Cairo; Economic aspects; Egypt; Suar�s, Jean-Claude; Supply-side economics; United States; Zoology; zoos

'Frege and his Rivals', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-8-19; Gottfried Frege; Gregory Currie; Logic; Mathematics; Michael Dummett; Morton, Adam; Philosophy; STS

'Faces of the People', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-8-19; Altick, Richard; History; Medicine; Physiognomy; Pseudoscience; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

'The Controversy Over Bombers & Bombing', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-8-1; Hastings, Max

'Speedway', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-8-1; Automobile racing drivers; Automobile racing fans; Death; Engineering; Fussell, Paul; Indiana; Indianapolis; Indianapolis (Ind.); Indianapolis Speedway Race; Mechanical Engineering; Social life and customs