Laserfest! Dan 10:12 AM No Comments Seriously, laserfest ! I'm digging this fantastic history of the laser , courtesy of the American Institute of Physics . You should to... Read More
Science and Spills Dan 10:05 AM 2 comments While we anxiously await a closer telling of the geologists in Afghanistan tale, there are some fascinating moments of science in action to... Read More
Bankrupted by Scientific Complexity? Dan 9:46 AM No Comments 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... Read More
"Rare books on their way to the Internet Archive scanning pod" Dan 9:27 AM No Comments 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... Read More
Even the Canadians Claim Edison Dan 10:03 AM No Comments Thomas Edison may have only come in ninth on the Atlantic's list of the top 100 most influential Americans , but amongst Victorians ensh... Read More
US Geologists Discover Soviet Documents, Lithium Exploitation Ensues. Dan 10:55 AM 3 comments 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... Read More
Decentering National Narratives and Historicizing the Shuttle Dan 11:13 AM 7 comments Our Scuttle the Shuttle series continues with a fortuitous offering from Asif Siddiqi, whose wide-ranging, thoughtful historiographic essay... Read More
American Birds Dan 10:30 AM 2 comments The Lloyd Library and Museum in Cincinnati has posted a wonderful little exhibit full of illustrations from ornithological illustrators. It... Read More
Drivers of American Space Policy Dan 9:31 AM 1 comment We began our "Scuttle the Shuttle" series with the question: how can we use history to better understand the recent decision to en... Read More