Poe, Leidy, Morton, and Some Skeletons Dan 4:59 PM No Comments Now that's a picture: Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Leidy, and Samuel George Morton at Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences Pho... Read More
Touring The Idea Factory....or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bell Labs Dan 4:25 PM 5 comments A Special Guest Post from Ben Gross, Research Fellow, Center for Contemporary History and Policy, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (Thank... Read More
Facebook and Conspicuous Affection Lee 12:35 PM 3 comments A little over 110 years ago Thorstein Veblen published The Theory of the Leisure Class , in which he spelled out his now famous and well-kno... Read More
Shotgunning, Inc. Hank 2:58 PM 2 comments More thoughts on beer technologies! These should go down just as smoothly as my post on canning craft beer (written up more fully here ).... Read More
Brooke Hindle on Early American Science Dan 2:24 PM 3 comments This retrospective look (from the 1980s, it seems, by Brooke Hindle ) at the mid-twentieth-century origins of the history of science in ear... Read More