Stories
- Article
The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
- Article
Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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Are people born violent?
Laura Bui explores how the nature vs nurture debate applies to those who commit homicide.
Catalogue
- Journals
- Online
Biological control
Date: 1991-- Books
Biological control of insects / by Hugh Nicol.
Nicol, Hugh, 1898-Date: 1943- Books
Biological control of vertebrate pests : the history of myxomatosis : an experiment in evolution / Frank Fenner and Bernardino Fantini.
Fenner, Frank, 1914-2010.Date: [1999], ©1999- Books
Conference on biological control of insects of medical importance / sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences [and others].
Date: 1960- Journals
- Online
Food control
Date: ©1990-