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Showing posts with label Dan. Show all posts
Dragons in the Museum
In Berlin, they keep dragons in the museum. Right next to the lions. And the aurochs . See for yourself. (The dragons are the str...
The Queues of Disneyland, and other thoughts from HSS
My undergraduate course in discrete mathematics introduced me to some of the paradigmatic problems of the field, including Euler's Seven...
Embracing and Communicating Uncertainty
I am hesitant to blog about the hurricane ripping through the Mid-Atlantic, especially while I'm sitting comfortably safe and warm, six ...
On Eclipses and Scientific Thinking: Simon Newcomb, Mark Twain, Ernst Mayr, and Bing Crosby
What do Newcomb, Twain, Mayr, and Crosby have in common? No, they aren't a 60s folk rock band. The answer is that they all tell us somet...
The Strength of American Materials -- An Environmental History of Engineering Science
From the Franklin Institute's General Report on the Explosions of Steam-Boilers One of the many pleasures of writing "Tocqu...
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...
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...
Mapping Scientific Influence
Ben Schmidt at Sapping Attention has a beautiful post up (with many pretty pictures) and exactly the sort of smart analysis one expects f...
Poe, Leidy, Morton, and Some Skeletons
Now that's a picture: Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Leidy, and Samuel George Morton at Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences Pho...
Touring The Idea Factory....or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bell Labs
A Special Guest Post from Ben Gross, Research Fellow, Center for Contemporary History and Policy, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (Thank...
Brooke Hindle on Early American Science
This retrospective look (from the 1980s, it seems, by Brooke Hindle ) at the mid-twentieth-century origins of the history of science in ear...
Toward an Environmental History of Psychology: A Conversation with Michael Pettit
The Inspiration: A Toronto Raccoon, photo by Michael Pettit The Forum for the History of Science in America's newsletter regula...
How are History of Sci/Med/Tech and History of Capitalism Teaching One Another?
Continuing our ruminations on the history of capitalism and its relationship to the history of science/med/tech or to STS ( here ) ( here ) ...
(Capitalist) Numbers to Narratives
Lee kicked of a lively discussion Friday as he wondered what the history of capitalism had to say to the history of technology, (medicine?)...
Evidence of the Normalization of American Science
I have only watched a few episodes of The Big Bang Theory on CBS (and don't plan to watch more), but I suppose that a show like this i...
JAH Reviews (Dec. 2011)
I'm interested in thinking about the ways that history of science wins a place in broader conversations in American history. As part of ...
Southern Science
In a post last month for the "Southern Roundtable" blog, Jay Malone (HSS executive director) makes a few noteworthy claims. For i...
Looking Outward
In case you missed it, HSS president Lynn Nyhart used her column in the last newsletter to ask the history of science community of scholars...
Psychology of Color
A fascinating CFP for a conference on "Color, Commerce, and Consumption in Global Historical Perspective" went up a while back. ...
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