I just arrived in Chicago where I will be attending a conference on Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at the Univers...
After Construction/Between Loops and Kinds: Alexander's The Mantra of Efficiency
My favorite thing about this blog is that it sticks things deeply in my craw, and I cannot pull them out, so now my craw is full. Today, I...
The Other 2012 Prophecy
I asked Joseph November , Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, to share this techno-prophesy with our audienc...
The Fall of Jonah Lehrer (Part 3 of 4)
This is the third installment of a four-part series on the cultural context of contemporary popular science writing. Part I is here , Part I...
#hsspsa12
I'm flying out tomorrow morning for the History of Science Society's Annual Meeting in San Diego. The philosophers of science will ...
The Fall of Jonah Lehrer (Part 2 of 4)
This is the second installment of a four-part series on the cultural context of contemporary popular science writing. Part I is here , and P...
Kuhn Was Right
This past weekend, Princeton hosted a workshop in honor of Thomas Kuhn called " Structure at 50: Assessing and Reassessing Kuhn and h...
Henry David Thoreau: Scientist, Capitalist, Land Surveyor
We have been talking a great deal about the history of capitalism on American Science, particularly focusing on how histories of science, ...
The Fall of Jonah Lehrer (Part 1 of 4)
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O [Jonah], thou wast slain in thine high places. 2 Samuel 1:25 (King James, adapte...
Sandy Studies 3: A Teachable Moment
Yesterday, my colleague, James McClellan, and I held a discussion group on Hurricane Sandy with students at Hoboken's Stevens Institute ...
Sandy Studies 2: Darkness
Some years ago, the historian, A. Roger Ekirch , published a book titled, At Day's Close: Night in Times Past . In it, he explored the h...
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