Browse Items (53 total)

'Political Science', The New Yorker

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-3-13; anti-science; Drugs and Pharmaceuticals; Medicine; Politics; Sex education; Specter, Michael; Vaccine; Vaccines

'Possessed by the Idols', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-11-30; David Wootton; Harm by Doctors; Medicine; Progressive History of Science; Shapin, Steven; Staffing, Funding and Institutions

'Provenly Unprovable', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-9-2; Biography; Feferman, Solomon; Fiction; Incompleteness Theorem; Kurt G�del; Mathematics; Maths; theorems and hypotheses

'Red Science', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-9-3; Andrew Brown; Biography; Chemistry; Communism; Crystallography; Freudianism; Future; Hobsbawm, Eric; JD Bernal; John Kendrew; Lord Mountbattan; Politics; Science fiction; Sexuality; X-Ray Crystallography

'Ruffled Feathers', The New Yorker

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-5-29; Biology; Ornithology; Pamela Rasussen; Richard Meinertzhagen; Scientific fraud; Zoology

'Short Cuts', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-9-21; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Engineering; Lanchester, John; Lockheed Martin; Michael Collins; Military-Industrial Science; Neil Armstrong; Space Rocket; space travel

'Swamp Nurse', The New Yorker

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-2-6; babies; Boo, Katherine; Medicine; Nurse-family partnership; Staffing, Funding and Institutions; Teenage Pregnancy

'The Atomic Emporium', The New Yorker

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-8-7; Abdul Qadeer Khan; Coll, Steve; Military and Weapons; nuclear weapons; Other; proliferation

'The Global Id', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-1-26; David Vise; Engineering; Google; Information Technology; Internet; John Battelle; Lanchester, John; Larry Page; Nikolai Tesla; Search Engines; Sergey Brin

'The Ice Renaissance', The New Yorker

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-5-29; Architecture; Batuman, Elif; Engineering; Ice House. Replicas

'THE LAST DROP', The New Yorker

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-10-23; aquifers; civil engineering; conflict; Engineering; Future; Pollution; Specter, Michael; water management; wells

'The Lobsterman', The New Yorker

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-7-31; Biology; Ecology; historical ecology; lobsterman; Oral histories; Ted Ames; Wilkinson, Alec

'The Magic Mountain', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-12-1; 21st century; Economic conditions; Other; Payatas (Quezon City; Philippines; Philippines : Waste disposal site); Power, Matthew; Quezon City; Quezon City (Philippines); Ragpickers; Refuse and refuse disposal; Social conditions; Waste and Pollution; Waste disposal sites

'The next war', Harpers

Tags: 1961-1975; 2000s; 2003-; 2006; 2006-10-1; 21st century; Causes; Ellsberg, Daniel; Iran; Iraq War; Military and Weapons; Military policy; Military relations; Other; Pentagon Papers; Political ethics; United States; Vietnamese Conflict; Whistle blowing

'Then came the Hoover', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-6-22; Allergies; Bodies; Mark Jackson; Medicine; Pennington, Hugh

'Tod aus Luft', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-1-26; Biogrpahy; Carl Bosch; Chemical Weapons; Chemistry; Fritz Haber; Shapin, Steven

'Under the God gun', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-1-1; 21st century; Fort Polk; Insurgency; Iraq; Louisiana; Maneuvers; Military and Weapons; Military training camps; Other; Tower, Wells; United StatesArmy; War games

'Untitled (refrigerator door)', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2005; 2006; 2006-2-1; Earth Sciences; Flood damage; Gulf Coast (U.S.); Hurricane Katrina; Jordan, Christopher; Meteorology and Climate Science; Personal paraphernalia; Pictorial works; Refrigerators

'Viral marketing', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-3-1; 21st century; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Doshi, Peter; Drugs and Pharmaceuticals; Influenza vaccines; Marketing; Medicine; Public health; United States

'What is Tom saying to Maureen?', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-11-5; autism; Bruno Bettelheim; Eugen Bleuler; Hacking, Ian; Kamran Nazeer; Laura Schreibman; Leo Kanner; Medicine; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Simon Baron-Cohen

'What the Dog Saw', The New Yorker

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-5-22; Biology; Cesar Millan; Dog Psychology; Ethology; Gladwell, Malcolm; Movement Analysis; Zoology

'Who ate the salted peanuts?', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-9-21; Fodor, Jerry; Michael Frayn; Philosophy; Positivism; Richard Dawkins; STS

'Whose body is it?', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-12-14; Hacking, Ian; Lesley Sharp; Medical Anthropology; Medicine; Organ Harvesting; Surgery; Transplants