Browse Items (134 total)

'Diary', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-12-11; Athlete's foot; Bodies; Duncan-Jones, Katherine; latex; Medicine

'Son of the Wolfman', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-12-1; Chabon, Michael; Forteana; Monsters

'Sailing out of Panama', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-12-1; civil engineering; Description and travel; Engineering; History; Panama Canal (Panama); Patrick Symmes; Symmes, Patrick

'How far down the dusky bosom?', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-11-26; Biology; Charles Darwin; Evolution; Evolutionary Theory; Expression of Emotion; Korn, Eric; Otto Rejlander; Paul Ekman; R.B. Freeman

'Your life with my dog', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-11-1; Biology; Dog owners; Dogs; Levine, Daniel; New York; New York (State); Petsitting; Zoology

'Mr. T, real-life superhero', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-11-1; African American actors; Art and Fiction; Interviews; Morrill, Chris S.; Mr. T; Other; Science fiction

'Let them eat nutri-cake', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-11-1; Biosolid (The word); Dictionaries; English language; Medicine; Merriam-Webster�s collegiate dictionary (Book); Nutrition; Rampton, Sheldon; Sewage sludge; United States

'The Radioactive Boy Scout', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-11-1; David Hahn; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Experiments; Michigan; Nuclear; Nuclear engineering; Radiochemistry; Recreation; Silverstein, Ken; Teenage boys

'Countdown', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-10-26; Ghosh, Amitav; India; Military and Weapons; Nuclear tests; nuclear weapons; Other

'You win, I win', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-10-15; Altruism; Biology; David Sloan Wilson; Elliott Sober; Evolution; Group Selection; Kitcher, Philip

'Sex Sites and Self-Regulation', Wired

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-8-1; Staff, Wired

'Geometry', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-10-1; Bodies; Couples; Foot; Gall, Sally; Medicine; Nudity; Pictorial works

'Planet of weeds', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-10-1; Biology; David Jablonski; Effect of human beings on; Evolution; Evolution (Biology); Extinction (Biology); Forecasting; Nature; Quammen, David

'Fortress Mathematica', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-9-17; Astrobiology; Biology; G�nter Ziegler; John Nash; Martin Aigner; Mathematics; Maths; Paul Erd�s; Paul Hoffman; Rotman, Brian; Sylvia Nasar

'The science of apartheid', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-9-1; Biological weapons; Chemical Weapons; Chemistry; Political persecution; Research; Roodeplaat Research Laboratory (South Africa); Schalk Janse van Rensburg; South Africa; Toxicology

'The soul encoded', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-9-1; Collaborative filtering programs; Electronic commerce; Engineering; Information Technology; Intelligent agents (Computer software); Internet; Recommendation software; Social aspects; United States

'The gallbladder will set you free', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-9-1; Chastain, H. Andrew; Donation of organs; etc.; Fees; Lawyers; Medical Specialisms; Medicine; Missouri; Pathology; Prisoners; tissues

'The hum of bees', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-9-1; Bee culture; Beekeepers; Bees; Behavior; Biology; Bob Kime; Entomology; Honey; Morrow, Susan Brind; New York (State); Susan Brind Morrow; Zoology

'Diary', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-8-20; Bodies; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Medicine; Pain; Painkillers; Rigby, Sarah

'Selling Windows to the world', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-8-1; Chun, David; Computer industry; Engineering; Information Technology; Microsoft Windows (Computer operating system); Monopolies; Operating systems (Computers); United States

'If we could talk to the animals', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-8-1; Biology; Hansell, Jenny; Human-animal communication; Interviews; Koko (Gorilla); United States; Zoology

'Arcticum Lappa', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-8-1; Biology; Burdocks; Kellner, Tanya; Leaves; Pictorial works; Plant Sciences; Portraits; Women

'Programming under the wizard�s spell', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-8-1; Engineering; Information Technology; Linux (Computer operating system); Microsoft Windows (Computer operating system); Operating systems (Computers); Programming (Electronic computers); Ullman, Ellen

'God versus G.E.', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-8-1; Daly, Patricia; Electric industries; Electrical Engineering; Engineering; Environmental aspects; General Electric; Health aspects; New York (State); Pollution; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Public relations; Religious aspects; Welch, John F.

'The Balboan View', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-7-5; Alfred Kinsey; Clara McMillen; Gender and Sexuality; James Jones; Medicine; Philadelphia; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Sexuality.; Silverman, Kenneth; W.B. Saunders Company

'Kudzu, kudzu, kill! Kill! Kill!', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-7-1; Babbitt, Bruce E.; Biology; Control; Plant Sciences; United States; United StatesDeptof Interior; Weeds

'Tall and Tanned and Young and Lovely', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-6-18; Ancient World; Andrew Stewart Jean-Pierre Vernant; Bodies; Davidson, James; Eroticism; Medicine

'Can We Drink the Water We Live With?', Whole Earth

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-6-1; Mankiewicz, Paul S; Other; Waste and Pollution

'A hundred rivers run through it', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-6-1; California; civil engineering; Economic aspects; Engineering; Graham, Wade; Water; Water use; Water-supply

'Seeing Things', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-5-21; Clara Pinto-Correira; Eggs; Human Development; Leeuwenhoek; Medicine; Preformation; Reproduction and Development; Sperm; Wilson, Catherine