From the Franklin Institute's General Report on the Explosions of Steam-Boilers One of the many pleasures of writing "Tocqu...
Eye-Candy for HoTeES
" After a week of great posts by my colleagues, I give you a bit of fluff, a Flickr account dedicated to "Science and T...
Big Histories of Science
For some time now, historians of science--including those who transformed the field with their carefully wrought, local, micro-studies--...
Next Week: PACHS Introductory Symposium
As many of you know, the Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science (PACHS) anchors an increasingly rich array of HPS offerings—ta...
Trust in Standardized Test Scores
If you are like me, you have been following the Chicago Teacher's strike over the past week. Last Friday, it seemed as though the l...
Tocqueville's Ghost
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences recently gave me the opportunity to review three thought-provoking books and in the process m...
Editorializing
Roger Cohen's recent piece in the Times -- The Organic Fable -- has caused quite an uproar! Briefly put, Cohen reports on a new stu...
Down with epistemological rubrics!
I was struck by this passage in Erik Hmiel's review of Joel Isaac's new book, Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Par...
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