Stories
- Article
The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
- Article
Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
- 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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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
Catalogue
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Human aspects of multiple shift operations / by Paul and Faith Pigors.
Pigors, Paul, 1900-1994.Date: [1944]- Books
Mycotoxins in foodstuffs : proceedings of a symposium held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 18 and 19, 1964 / edited by Gerald N. Wogan.
International Symposium on Mycotoxins in Foodstuffs (1964 : Cambridge, Mass.)Date: [1965]- Archives and manuscripts
Papers of M H F Wilkins: background information on university teaching on science and society
Date: 1978-1984Reference: K/PP178/11/1/33Part of: Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)- Books
Ideas as reforms : therapeutic experiments and medical practice, 1900-1980 / by Harry Milton Marks.
Marks, H. M. (Harry Milton)Date: [1987], ©1987- Books
Of microbes and molecules : food technology, nutrition, and applied biology at M.I.T., 1873-1988 / by Samuel A. Goldblith.
Goldblith, Samuel A.Date: [1995], ©1995