Reflecting on History of Science, Feb 3 in Philadelphia Joanna 4:40 PM 1 comment I'm reposting an announcement for an interesting upcoming event hosted by the Philadelphia Center for the History of Science (PACHS). I... Read More
History of Medicine, For Human Dignity Dan 3:37 PM No Comments An announcement for this conference on the history/memory of the Tuskegee experiments caught my eye in part because it aims higher than do ... Read More
Diagnosing the diseases of the past, today Dan 12:29 PM No Comments Historians of science and medicine debate whether it is possible to re-diagnose diseases manifested in the past with modern terms. But what ... Read More
Funding Database Dan 12:25 PM No Comments If you don't already know about ScanGrants , perhaps you should. It is "a public service listing of grants and other funding types ... Read More
Now that's a dune, Dr. Cowles! Dan 11:37 AM No Comments The Library of Congress now hosts a fascinating set of photographs taken by University of Chicago ecologists (and their students), most ... Read More
No dessert unless you eat your US history... Dan 11:04 AM No Comments I love this insight from scientist and blogger Ian Hopkinson ( SomeBeans ) on some salutary side-effects of well-done history of science: ... Read More
Print Culture and Online Publishing Lukas 10:13 AM 5 comments The Wikipedia Homepage on Jan. 18th, 2012 Today is a big day for the internet! Visit the English-language version of Wikipedia and ins... Read More
Happy Birthday, William James Hank 9:30 PM 2 comments Today marks what would've been the one-hundred-and-seventieth birthday of one of the most well-regarded and enigmatic figures in America... Read More
Cetacean Scientists in the US Dan 2:20 PM 2 comments Paul Greenberg recently reviewed D. Graham Burnett's The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century in the ... Read More