Browse Items (53 total)

'After the flood', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-2-1; Earth Sciences; Jordan, Christopher; Oceanography

'Antenna of the universe', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-5-1; Amateur radio stations; California; Engineering; Grandparent and child; Los Angeles; Telecommunications; Wallace, Don

'Clash of the time lords', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-12-1; 21st century; Atomic clocks; Calendar reform; General Physics; History; Physics; Space and time; Stacey, Michelle; Systems and standards; Time; Time measurements; Units and Measurement

'Darwin�s conundrum', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-12-1; Biology; Book reviews; Charles Darwin; Edward Osborne Wilson; Evolution; Evolution (Biology); James D. Watson; Quammen, David

'Diary', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-2-11; blogs; Engineering; Information Technology; Lanchester, John; political polling

'Diary', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-4-20; Biology; Charles Darwin; Evolution; Evolutionary biology; Museum; Robots; Turkle, Sherry

'Diary', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-6-22; Acorn Computers; Computer Games; Computers; Engineering; Information Technology; Jones, Thomas

'Diary', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-11-5; George, Rose; Other; Sewer; Waste and Pollution; Water pipes; Water treatment plants

'Flowery Regions of Algebra', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-12-14; Biography; History of Science; Physics; Pierre Laplace; Roger Hahn; Schaffer, Simon

'Fourteen feet of water in my house', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-1-1; Earth Sciences; Gurganus, Allan

'Game Master', The New Yorker

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-11-6; Engineering; Information Technology; Seabrook, John; the Sims; Video Games; Will Wright

'Get the Mosquitoes!', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-11-30; Austin Burt; Biology; Entomology; Flour Beetles; Genetics; mosquitoes; Robert Trivers; Whitfield, John; Zoology

'God or gorilla', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-2-1; 21st century; Biology; Chapman, Matthew; Dover; Evolution; Intelligent design (Teleology); Law and legislation; Pennsylvania; Religion and science; Religion in the public schools; Study and teaching

'Hammers for Pipes', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-9-2; Deep Time; Earth Sciences; Fortey, Richard; Geology; Martin Rudwick

'Happyland (part III)', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-9-1; Lennon, J. Robert; Other

'Hysterical scientism', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-11-1; Book reviews; Religion and science; Richard Dawkins; Robinson, Marilynne; Science and religion; STS

'Imagine There�s No Oil', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-8-1; 21st century; Congresses; Energy conservation; Energy Engineering; Energy policy; Engineering; Forecasting; Models; Oil; Peak Oil; Petroleum industry and trade; Petroleum reserves; Political aspects; Power resources; Renewable energy sources; United States; Urstadt, Bryant

'Improvised, explosive, & divisive', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2003-; 2006; 2006-1-1; 21st century; American; Bissell, Tom; Engineering; Insurgency; Iraq; Iraq War; Mechanical Engineering; Military policy; Personal narratives; United States

'It�s not easy being green', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-8-1; 21st century; Abnormalities; Atrazine; Chemistry; Environmental policy; Frogs; Indicators (Biology); Research; Rules and practice; Souder, William; Syngenta (Firm); Toxicology; Tyrone Hayes; United States; United StatesEnvironmental Protection Agency

'Lethal Specks', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-12-14; Alexander Litvinenko; Chemistry; Pennington, Hugh; Politics; Polonium; Radiation Poisoning

'Life and limb: drawings from Brooke Army Medical Center', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-7-1; Bodies; Medicine; Mumford, Steve

'Like Cutting a Cow', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-6-7; Anthropology; Colin Murray; Kuper, Adam; Medicine; Medicine Murders; Peter Sanders; Social sciences

'Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-10-19; Critique; Eagleton, Terry; Richard Dawkins; Science and religion; STS

'Making Up People', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-8-17; Classification; Hacking, Ian; Human Sciences; Medicine; Multiple Personality Disorder; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Statistics

'Me and My Breakfast Cereal', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-9-2; Albert Michelson; Close, Frank; emergence; Physics; Robert Laughlin; William Thomson

'Middle-Aged and Dishevelled', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-3-23; Biology; Brown Satyr Butterfly; butterflies; centipedesConservation; DDT; John Marzluff; Natural history; Ornithology; scorpions; Solnit, Rebecca; Songbirds; Spiders; Tony Angell; Urban Animals; Woodpeckers; Zoology

'Miracles Aren�t Enough', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-1-26; Ellis, George; Mathematics; Physics; Roger Penrose; Theoretical Physics

'New in Town', The New Yorker

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-12-11; Biology; Finnegan, William; Immigrants; Organic farming; Plant Sciences

'One Minute You�re Fine', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-1-26; addiction; Birne, Eleanor; Fat; Food; Judith Moore; Medicine; Nutrition; William Leith

'Owning the weather', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-1-1; 21st century; Arike, Ando; Earth Sciences; Effect of human beings on; History; John Von Neumann; Meteorology and Climate Science; Nature; Orgonomy; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; United States; War use; Weather control; Wilhelm Reich