Browse Items (728 total)

'Every Time the Evidence Breaks Down', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-12-1; Hutchinson, Mark

'Triple Life', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-11-23; Ernest Rutherford; Erwin Schr�dinger; Henri Becquerel; J.J. Thomson; Max Planck; Niels Bohr; Physics; Pippard, Brian; Quantum Mechanics; Walter Moore

'Joke Book?', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-11-23; A.D. Nuttall; History of Madness; Medicine; Nuttall, A. D.; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Robert Burton

'The Information Revolution', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-11-1; Sussman, Leonard R.

'Out my computer window', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-11-1; BIX (Computer bulletin board); Electronic discussion groups; Engineering; Information Technology; Kenner, Hugh; United States

'Encyclopedias', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-10-26; Asa Briggs; Communication Technologies; Cyril Glass; Encyclopedias; Erik Barnouw; Francis Robinson; H.R. Loyn; Judith Hannam; Ninian Smart; Paul Davies; Physics; S.A.m. Adshead; Zeldin, Theodore

'FIRE', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-10-2; Earth Sciences; fire; Geography; Hackett, Thomas; National Park; Natural burn

'Diary', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-9-28; Coster, Graham

'Anthropology's Auto-da-Fe', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-9-1; Fox, Robin

'Anyone for President?', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-9-1; Dooley, Brian

'Body History', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-8-31; Barbara Gates; Bodies; Dorinda Outram; Gender; History of Medicine; Jeanne Peterson; Ludmilla Jordanova; Medicine; Porter, Roy; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Suicide

'Sickness and Salvation', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-8-31; AIDS; Alternative Medicine; Disease; Lawson, Sylvia; Medicine; Rosalind Coward; Susan Sontag

'Havens', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-8-17; Biology; Ernst Peter Fischer; Erwin Schr�dinger; Fran�ois Jacob; Kevles, Daniel; Max Delbr�ck; Max Perutz; Microbiology; Molecular Biology; Physics

'SEMPER PARATUS', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-8-7; Boats; Coast Guard; Drug Smuggling; Engineering; Gibbs, Tony; Mechanical Engineering; safety; Underfunding

'McFreud�s', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-8-1; Feder, Mike; Humor; Medicine; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Psychotherapists� offices; Psychotherapy; United States

'Toward pure energy', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-8-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Air pilots; Engineering; Fighter planes; Gonzales, Laurence; Laurence Gonzales; Military; Piloting; United States

'When I began to understand quantum mechanics', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-8-1; Hamilton, Jane; Physics; Quantum theory

'Life on Mars', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-8-1; Cosmology; Exploration; Life on other planets; Mars (Planet); Physics; Turner, Frederick W.

'II-BIG SUGAR', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-7-24; Biology; hand labour; Jamaicans; Plant Sciences; sugar; Wilkinson, Alec

'I-BIG SUGAR', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-7-17; Biology; hand labour; Jamaicans; Plant Sciences; sugar; Wilkinson, Alec

'Pain and Hunger', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-7-12; Epidemics; Gregory David de Rocher; History of Medicine; Laurent Joubert; Mary Kilbourne Matossian; Medicine; Other; Piero Camporesi; Poison; Quacks; Roy Porter; Shippey, Tom

'PENGUINS', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-7-10; Ackerman, Diane; Antarctic; Biology; King Penguins; Ornithology; South Georgia; Zoology

'HER DEEPNESS', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-7-3; Biology; Diving; Marine biology; marine botany; Oil spill; submersibles; Sylvia Earle; Tektite; White, Wallace

'Threads & Strands', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-7-1; Skelton, Ross

'Einstein in the Patent Office"', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-7-1; Davis, Philip

'Diary', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-5-18; Cold Fusion; Fleischmann; Physics; Pons; Ziman, John

'Bits', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-5-18; Caufield, Catherine; Digital Physics; Ed Fredkin; Edward Wilson; Isaac Newton; Kenneth Boulding; Physics; Richard Feynman; Robert Wright; Science and religion; Timothy Ferris

'Mares and Stallions', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-5-18; Biology; Evolution; Games Theory; John Maynard Smith; Sex; Ursua Le Guin; Wilkie, Tom

'Hidden Assumptions', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-5-1; Bogdanor, Vernon

'Visionary Gleams', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1989; 1989-5-1; Takahashi, Yasunari