Browse Items (53 total)

'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

'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

'Lethal Specks', London Review of Books

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

'New in Town', The New Yorker

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

'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

'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

'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

'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

'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

'Game Master', The New Yorker

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

'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

'Diary', London Review of Books

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

'Hysterical scientism', Harpers

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

'THE LAST DROP', The New Yorker

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

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

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

'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

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

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

'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

'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

'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

'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

'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

'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

'The Atomic Emporium', The New Yorker

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

'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

'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

'The Lobsterman', The New Yorker

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

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

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

'Diary', London Review of Books

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