Michael Barrett
Articles by Michael Barrett
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Health
Pandemic's progress
- 23 July 2009
Our scientific knowledge will ensure that the swine flu pandemic is no apocalypse.
World Affairs
Pandemic’s progress: we saw it coming
- 30 April 2009
- 6 comments
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
Books
From double helix to double-cross
- 07 January 2002
Genes, Girls and Gamow James D Watson Oxford University Press, 304pp, £18.99 ISBN 0198509766
Books
Blood suckers
- 30 July 2001
Mosquito: the story of mankind's deadliest foe Andrew Spielman and Michael D'Antonio Faber and Faber, 267pp, £10.99 ISBN 0571209807
Books
Rumble in the jungle
- 28 August 2000
In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: living on the brink of disaster in the Congo Michela Wrong Fourth Estate, 324pp, £13.99 ISBN 1841154210
