Michael Barrett

Articles by Michael Barrett

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World Affairs

Pandemic’s progress: we saw it coming

30 April 2009
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Be in no doubt, people in Britain will die from Mexican swine flu and there will be several million victims worldwide. But this is not a repeat of the 1918 pandemic, writes the leading research scientist and NS contributing editor

Religion

The end of nature’s mystery

02 April 2009

Michael Barrett, a leading research scientist, spends his days stripping life down to its chemical components. This has led him to conclude that we began as bits of goo

World Affairs

Bad air

28 July 2003

The Miraculous Fever Tree: malaria, medicine and the cure that changed the world
Fiammetta Rocco HarperCollins, 348pp, £16.99
ISBN 0002572028

Ideas

Soft in the head

28 April 2003

How the Cows Turned Mad
Maxime Schwartz (translated by Edward Schneider) University of California Press, 238pp, £17.95
ISBN 0520235312

Ideas

Germ rights

31 March 2003

Smallpox: the fight to eradicate a global scourge
David Koplow University of California Press, 276pp, £17.95

SciTech

Presumed innocent. Michael Barrett on the contentious life and work of David Livingstone, "the first African freedom fighter"

01 July 2002

David Livingstone: mission and empire
Andrew Ross Hambledon and London, 304pp, £19.95
ISBN 1852852852

David Livingstone
Meriel Buxton Palgrave, 232pp, £45

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