Seriously, laserfest ! I'm digging this fantastic history of the laser , courtesy of the American Institute of Physics . You should to...
Science and Spills
While we anxiously await a closer telling of the geologists in Afghanistan tale, there are some fascinating moments of science in action to...
Bankrupted by Scientific Complexity?
I glanced over the scientific/medical dichotomy in my last post. Now I see that Atul Gawande has attacked it head on . Science has made medi...
"Rare books on their way to the Internet Archive scanning pod"
That's right: we live in a world with scanning pods . How magical. Those scanning pods are doing good work, too. The Center for the Hi...
Even the Canadians Claim Edison
Thomas Edison may have only come in ninth on the Atlantic's list of the top 100 most influential Americans , but amongst Victorians ensh...
US Geologists Discover Soviet Documents, Lithium Exploitation Ensues.
The New York Times gives the barest outline to a truly momentous piece of archival work, albeit one done by historians of another sort tha...
Decentering National Narratives and Historicizing the Shuttle
Our Scuttle the Shuttle series continues with a fortuitous offering from Asif Siddiqi, whose wide-ranging, thoughtful historiographic essay...
American Birds
The Lloyd Library and Museum in Cincinnati has posted a wonderful little exhibit full of illustrations from ornithological illustrators. It...
Drivers of American Space Policy
We began our "Scuttle the Shuttle" series with the question: how can we use history to better understand the recent decision to en...
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