Browse Items (62 total)

'Stop screaming, Mrs Steiner', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-12-17; Alvin Toffler; Bernstein; birth; Jessica Mitford; Medicine; Obstetrician; Pain; Reproduction and Development; Steiner, Wendy; Vance Packard; Woofdward

'The Whole Orang', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-12-3; Adrian Desmond; Biology; Charles Darwin; Evolution; Evolutionary Theory; James Moore; Smith, Paul

'Looking big', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-12-3; Briggs, Asa; civil engineering; Engineering; George Stephenson; Isambard Kingdom Brunel; L.T.C. Rolt; Robert Stephenson; Samuel Smiles; William Gladstone

'THE CHINOS' ARTFUL HARVEST', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-11-30; Biology; exotic vegetables; Gourmet vegetables; Plant Sciences; Singer, Mark

'CRISIS IN THE HOT ZONE', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-11-9; Disease; DNA; Ebola; Future; Medicine; Monkeys; Preston, Richard; Virus

'Phew!', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-11-6; Changing Weather; David Benedictus; Earth Sciences; Meteorology; Turner, E. S.

'Great lite hunter', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-11-1; 777 Ranch (Hondo; Big game hunting; Biology; Finance; Hondo; Tex.); Texas; Zoology

'In the land of lotus eaters', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-11-1; Biology; Hoagland, Tony; Plant Sciences

'In praise of ferret leggers', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-11-1; Biology; England; Ferret-legging (Sport); Katz, Donald R.; Reg Mellor; Zoology

'The green threat to nature', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-11-1; Environmentalism; Lewis, Martin W.; Other; Radicalism; social movements; United States

'The no-futures market', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-11-1; AIDS; AIDS (Disease); Case studies; Disease; Insurance; Life; Medicine; Patients; United States

'CRISIS IN THE HOT ZONE', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-10-26; Disease; DNA; Ebola; Future; Medicine; Monkeys; Preston, Richard; Virus

'Total Knowledge', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-10-9; Anne Ockerson; Campbell, Peter; Computers; Donald Hayes; Engineering; George Landow; Hypertext; Information Technology; John Maddox

'Lotharios', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-10-9; Andrew Carnegie; Biology; Charles Darwin; Chimpanzees; Evolution; Evolutionary Theory; Herbert Spencer; Jared Diamond; Jones, Steve; Konrad Lorenz

'A disease called �the sound�', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-10-1; Disease; Health aspects; Medicine; New Mexico; Saltzman, Bob; Sounds; Taos

'Pafko at the wall', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-10-1; Art and Fiction; DeLillo, Don; Other

'An environmental vision thing', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-10-1; Corrupt practices; Earth Sciences; L. Lorraine Mintzmyer; Mintzmyer, L. Lorraine; Officials and employees; United StatesDeptof Interior; United StatesNational Park Service

'Post-industrial sabotage', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-10-1; Engineering; manufacturing; Production; Sabotage in the workplace; Sprouse, Martin; United States

'The tiny immortals', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-10-1; Biology; Microbiology; Vollmann, William T.

'Doctoring the past', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-9-24; Barbara Duden; Gender and Sexuality; History of the body; Lesley Hall; Medicine; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Sexuality; Skin; Summers, Anne; Wendy Mithcinson

'Artificial Life', Whole Earth

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-9-1; Biology; Biotechnology; Levy, Steven; Synthetic Biology

'Computational Chemistry', Whole Earth

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-9-1; Borsook, Paulina; Chemistry; Computational Chemistry; Material Science

'When big was beautiful', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-8-20; Big Science; Biology; Bruce Helvy; Daniel Kevles; Genetics; Human Genome Project; Leroy Hood; Peter Galison; Superconducting Supercollider; Wade, Nicholas

'Bohr v. Einstein', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-8-20; Albert Einstein; Barrow, John; Biography; Niels Bohr; Physics; Quanthum Mechanics

'INSECT LOVE', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-8-17; Ackerman, Diane; Biology; Chemical Ecology; Entomology; Insects; Zoology

'Jabs', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-8-10; Blood; Disease; Edward Jenner; HIV; Horton, Richard; Medicine; Richard Fisher; Sarah Nelmes; Vaccination

'In praise of Geoffrey Lloyd', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-8-10; Ancient Science; G.E.R Lloyd; History of Science; King, Helen; STS

'Homage to Rhubarb', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-8-10; Allen, David; Biology; Plant Sciences; Plants -medicinal uses; Rhubarb

'The last cold-war monument', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-8-1; Architecture; Burdick, Alan; Design and construction; Engineering; Monuments; New Mexico; Radioactive waste disposal; Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (N.M.)

'Five Tools for Going Forward', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-7-23; Dennis Meadows; Donella Meadows; Jogen Randers; Limits to growth; Seabright, Paul; Social sciences; sustainable development