So Tell Me About TSCA Reform, Part II Evan 9:37 AM 2 comments For an overview of the recent history of chemical regulation in America and the proposals to restructure it currently under consideration... Read More
Links for March 30, 2015 (UPDATED) David Roth Singerman 4:18 PM No Comments CCI/Art Archive/Art Resource via nybooks.com Inmates at a women's prison in Indiana took it upon themselves to research their... Read More
So tell me about TSCA reform Evan 9:45 AM 2 comments Perhaps you have heard: over the past couple of weeks, the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works has begun to consider a p... Read More
Links for March 23, 2015 David Roth Singerman 9:34 AM No Comments A short and vivid history of the color purple , or how the chemist William Henry Perkin inadvertently created synthetic purple dye, ... Read More
When Bibliomania Came to America Meridith Beck Sayre 9:20 AM 1 comment In 1809, the Englishmen Thomas Frognall Dibdin published a detailed description of a disease that w... Read More
Vintage-inspired links for March 16, 2015 David Roth Singerman 11:31 AM No Comments telegeography.com "Metrics and standards" in court! Last week, the Supreme Court decided in favor of Amtrak and the US... Read More
The Apple Watch and the history of capitalism (updated) David Roth Singerman 6:25 PM 1 comment Selçuk Demirel, from Le Monde Diplomatique , 1999 In the March 2015 issue of Harper's Magazine there's a terrifying article ... Read More
Links for March 9, 2015 Jenna 11:43 AM No Comments Science Magazine is celebrating the centennial of general relativity with a special issue, which includes an i nteractive webcomic fe... Read More
Dispatches From The Particle Accelerator Jenna 9:24 AM No Comments Back in January, I was presented with a unique opportunity: the chance to walk inside of a particle accelerator. And I was really reall... Read More