Browse Items (36 total)

'The mother of all petals', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1992; 1992-3-1; Advertising; Biology; Desert Peace rose; Peace; Persian Gulf War; Plant Sciences; Rose industry; United States

'Aids in South Africa', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-12-9; AIDS; Disease; Epidemic; Johnson, R. W.; Medicine

'OPENING WINDOWS', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-12-2; collaboration; Engineering; hobbyist; Kenny Schaffer; Owen, David; phones; radio; Telecommunications

'Tennis, trigonometry, tornadoes', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-12-1; David Foster Wallace; Illinois; Maths; Other; Suburban life; Teenage boys; Tennis; Tornadoes; training; Wallace, David Foster

'Death by erosion', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-11-7; Archie Brodsky; David Widgery; doctors; Donald Gould; Harold Bursztajn; History of Medicine; Medical Unvertainty; Medicine; Richard Feinbloom; Robert Hamm; Seabright, Paul; Staffing, Funding and Institutions

'Arms and Saddam', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-10-24; Douglas Hird; George Bush Snr; Norman Schawrzkopf; Nuclear Programme; Nuclear reactors; Other; response, Norman Dombey writes about Iraq�s nuclear programme and the Security Council�s; Saddam Hussein

'Tears before the storm', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-10-24; Anne Vincent-Buffault; History of emotions; Medicine; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Tears; Yeazell, Ruth Bernard

'II-MOVING TO RICHLAND', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-10-21; art; Art and Fiction; granite; James Acord; Jr; nuclear sculptures; nuclear waste; Other; Schuyler, Philip

'MOVING TO RICHLAND-I', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-10-14; art; Art and Fiction; granite; James Acord; Jr; nuclear sculptures; nuclear waste; Other; Schuyler, Philip

'MOVING TO RICHLAND-I', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-10-14; art; Art and Fiction; James Acord; nuclear material sculptor; Other

'Gynaecological Proletarians', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-10-10; Ann Dalley; Catriona Blake; Gynaecology; History of Medicine; Medicine; Ornella Moscucci; Staffing, Funding and Institutions; Summers, Anne; Surgery; Women's involvement in medicine

'LADYBUGS', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-10-7; Animals; Biology; Entomology; harvesting; Hubbell, Sue; insect control; ladybirds; Zoology

'The Meaning of Mngwotngwotiki', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-10-1; Anthropology; Korn, Eric; Mathematics; Science; Social sciences; Thomas Krump

'Dangerous Misprints', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-9-26; Biology; Genetics; Jerry Bishop; Michael Waldholz; Perutz, M. F.

'Thinking big', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-9-26; Campbell, Peter; DIY; Ed Regis; Forteana; fringe science; Genetic Modification; Immortality; mining the Sun; Transhumanism

'Out of a job in Aberdeen', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-9-26; Electromagnetism; Field Theory; James Clerk Maxwell; Penrose, Roger; Physics; Thermodynamics

'Like books along a bookshelf', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-9-5; Biology; Christopher Wills; DNA; Ernst Mayr; Genetics; J.B.S. Haldane; Ridley, Mark

'What�s wrong with animal rights', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-9-1; Animal rights; Biology; Dogs; Hearne, Vicki; Human-animal relationships; Psychology; training; United States; Vicki Hearne; Zoology

'Written in the Big Wind', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-9-1; Cyclone forecasting; Earth Sciences; Economic aspects; Hurricanes; Meteorology and Climate Science; Real estate development; Shacochis, Bob; United States

'Voyage to Uchronia', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-8-29; Art and Fiction; Bruce Sterling; Counterfactual History; Delany, Paul; George Gordon Lord Byron; Other; Science fiction; Wililam Gibson

'Stone Cold', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-8-29; Artificial Heart; Atomic and Nuclear Physics; Cold Fusion; Frank Close; Fusion; Physics; Wade, Nicholas

'Meat in space', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-8-1; Bisson, Terry; Medicine; Nutrition

'Among the Sandemanians', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-7-25; Brooke, John Hedley; Electricity; Geoffrey Cantor; History of Science; Michael Faraday; Science and religion; STS

'Bit by bit', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-7-11; Biology; Developmental Biology; Embryology; Lewis Wolpert; Lindley, David; Other

'HEART OF THE DELTA', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-7-8; agricultural aviation; Chemical Products; Chemistry; crop-dusting; herbicides; Pesticides; plane-wrecks; Webster, Donovan

'GOLDEN MONKEYS', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-6-24; Ackerman, Diane; Biology; Conservation; Monkeys; Rain forest; Zoology

'LOGGING THE RAIN FOREST', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-5-27; Biology; Deforestation; hunter-gatherers; Logging; Plant Sciences; Rain forest; Sesser, Stan; Tribal people

'Faith, Hope and Probability', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-5-23; Douglas, Mary; History of Science; Ian Hacking; Maths; probability; Statistics

'Where have all the animals gone? The lamentable extinction of zoos', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-5-1; Biology; Human-animal relationships; Siebert, Charles; United States; Zoology; zoos

'The point of it all', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-4-25; Briggs, Asa; Design and Invention; Engineering; George Watson; Henry Petroski; Pencil; William Thomson