Browse Items (46 total)

'The Gift Economy', Whole Earth

Tags: 1990; 1990-12-1; 1990s; Elemans, John; innovation; STS

'Careful Mismanagement', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990; 1990-11-1; 1990s; Catherine Caufield; Earth Sciences; Edward Woodhouse; Heilbron, J. L.; Joseph Morone; Nuclear power; Radiation exposure; Uranium

'Disturbingly Slender Waists', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990; 1990-10-25; 1990s; Ants; Bert H�lldobler; Biochemistry; Biology; E.O. Wilson; Evolution; Natural history; phenylacetic acid; Rothschild, Miriam; Sociobiology

'Troglodytes', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990; 1990-10-25; 1990s; Andrew Martin; Bulwer-Lytton; Earth Sciences; Foundation-laying; Geology; Jules Verne; Mining; Paleontology; Parrinder, Patrick; Rosalind Williams; Science fiction; Tunnelling; Underground

'DEVASTATION', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990; 1990-10-22; 1990s; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Racism; train derailment; Trow, George W. S.

'BELLS AND WHISTLES', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990; 1990-10-8; 1990s; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Clown; Engineering; Gary Isaacs; investment banking; Rocket science; Weschler, Lawrence

'REINVENTING THE EGG', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990; 1990-10-1; 1990s; Biology; cholesterol; Eggs; Full Spectrum Farms; Ornithology; Poultry; Stacey, Michelle; Zoology

'Patriotic Work', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990; 1990-9-27; 1990s; Andrei Sakharov; Hydrogen Bombs; Perutz, M. F.; Physics

'Medawar�s Knack', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990; 1990-9-27; 1990s; Biology; David Pyke; Jean Medawar; Other; Patient's experience; Peter Medawar; Pirie, N. W.

'ALBATROSSES', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990; 1990-9-24; 1990s; Ackerman, Diane; Biology; Ornithology; Painting; Seabirds; Zoology

'How to be Green', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990; 1990-9-13; 1990s; Alexander Cockburn; Anil Markandya; Biology; David Pearce; Deforestation; Derek Wall; Douglas, Mary; ecological theory; Ecology; Edward barbier; Environmental crisis; Keekok Lee; Marilynne Robinson; Michael Allaby; Penny Kemp; Susanna Hecht; sustainable development

'PARROTS', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990; 1990-7-30; 1990s; Biology; Birds; domestic animals; Endangered species; parrots; Pets; psittacosis; Stern, Jane; Stern, Michael; Zoology

'Reading the Future', Encounter

Tags: 1990; 1990-7-1; 1990s; Pfaff, William

'Three Concepts of Racism', Encounter

Tags: 1990; 1990-7-1; 1990s; Flew, Antony

'Charles Peirce's Legacy', Encounter

Tags: 1990; 1990-7-1; 1990s; Feuer, Lewis S.

'Global squirming', Harpers

Tags: 1990; 1990-7-1; 1990s; Congresses; Earth Sciences; George Bush; Global warming; Meteorology and Climate Science

'Who are these animals we kill?', Harpers

Tags: 1990; 1990-7-1; 1990s; Biology; Effect of human beings on; Lopez, Barry; Nature; Roadkills; United States; Zoology

'Virginia is for virgins', Harpers

Tags: 1990; 1990-7-1; 1990s; American Civil Liberties Union; Chesapeake; Church and state; Dating (Social customs); Family life education; Religious aspects; Social sciences; Sociology; Virginia

'Dreadful Beasts', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990; 1990-6-28; 1990s; Biology; Charles Walcott; Harry Whittington; Paleontology; Ridley, Mark; Stephen Jay Gould

'Heroic Irrigations', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990; 1990-6-12; 1990s; Father Kneipp; Medicine; Other; Phyllis Hembry; Roy Porter; Spa treatments; Turner, E. S.; Water

'Bad News', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990; 1990-6-12; 1990s; Brain Catling; Climate Change; Colin Andrew; Dick File; Earth Sciences; GJ Jenkins; JJ Ephraums; John Farrand; JT Houghton; Meteorology; Pat Delgado; Poetry; Sinclair, Iain

'Sects & the Sacred', Encounter

Tags: 1990; 1990-6-1; 1990s; Norman, Edward

'Cold Turkey on the Farm', Whole Earth

Tags: 1990; 1990-6-1; 1990s; Chemical Products; Chemistry; Nilsen, Richard

'AIDS, mourning, and action', Harpers

Tags: 1990; 1990-6-1; 1990s; AIDS; AIDS (Disease) and the arts; Disease; Feingold, Michael; Grief; Medicine; United States

'Teaching AIDS', Harpers

Tags: 1990; 1990-6-1; 1990s; AIDS; AIDS phobia; Disease; Employees; Hand washing; Health and hygiene; Medicine; New York; New York (State); School boards; Study and teaching; Teachers

'THE ANCIENT FOREST', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990; 1990-5-14; 1990s; Biology; Caufield, Catherine; clear-cut; forest service; Logging; Plant Sciences; timber

'Hunt the hacker', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990; 1990-4-19; 1990s; Computers; Engineering; Information Technology; Sifton, Sam; Technology

'Hungry Ghosts', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990; 1990-4-19; 1990s; Anthropology; Connerton, Paul; History of the body; Medicine; Michel Feher; Nadia Tazi; Other; Ramona Naddaff

'II-LOOKING FOR A SHIP', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990; 1990-4-2; 1990s; Crew; flags of convenience; McPhee, John; Merchant marine; Other; Ships; Unemployment

'Cave spring', Harpers

Tags: 1990; 1990-4-1; 1990s; Anthropology; Benton, Thomas Hart; Landscape; Pictorial works; Social sciences; United States