Stories
- Article
When self-deception becomes global hoax
Being deceived isn’t always a case of believing someone else’s lie. Experiments have shown that many of us can be manipulated into accepting our own fictions as true.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
- Article
Deciding a date for the end of the world
When will the world end? Charlotte Sleigh explores how our obsession with dates and dramatic imaginings of the end can distract us from the dangers slowly creeping up on us.
Catalogue
- Books
Global development cooperation : science for development / by the International Development Research Center [sic].
Date: [1993?]- Books
Conference for Global Development Cooperation : report of a meeting / [chaired by Jimmy Carter and Boutros Boutros-Ghali].
Date: 1992- Books
- Online
Millions saved : proven successes in global health.
Date: [2004]- Books
Millions saved : proven successes in global health / by Ruth Levine and the What Works Working Group with Molly Kinder.
Levine, Ruth, 1959-Date: [2004], ©2004- Books
The global human genome programme / Megascience, the OECD Forum.
Megascience, the OECD Forum.Date: [1995], ©1995