Stories
- Article
The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
- Article
The joy of playing hide-and-seek with rats
Playing hide-and-seek with lab rats has shown scientists that joy can be a great motivator for learning and social interaction – and not just for rats.
- 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.
- Article
The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
European Science Foundation Standing Committee for Social Science Meeting, Strasbourg, February 1981
Date: 1980-1981Reference: PSY/TAJ/5/24Part of: Tajfel, Henri (1919-1982) papers- Books
Responding to HIV/AIDS : national strategies, plans and programs / Lawrence T. Jensen, editor.
Date: [2011], ©2011- Archives and manuscripts
European Science Foundation Standing Committee for Social Science Meeting, Strasbourg, July 1979
Date: 1979Reference: PSY/TAJ/5/20Part of: Tajfel, Henri (1919-1982) papers- Books
Society, medicine and politics in colonial India / edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.
Date: 2018- Journals
Science for people.
Date: 1972-1989