history of science

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• 5/19/19
  

  Thomas Harriot and the lost North Carolina Algonquian Language

  by Robyn Arianrhod

  In this UN International Year of Indigenous Languages, here is the story of a pioneering linguist and ethnographer. 

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• 4/21/19
  

  The History of the Meaning of Life

  by Michael Ruse

  And how we can find meaning in a "Darwinian existentialism.”

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• SOURCE: Nautilus
  2-6-14
  

  How the Cold War Created Astrobiology

  Life, death, and Sputnik.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  11-14-13
  

  The periodic table: how elements get their names

  Their chosen names were influenced by an ever changing mix of language, culture and our understanding of chemistry.

• SOURCE: HNN staff
  8-7-13
  

  Bob Filner, San Diego mayor facing sexual harrassment scandal, formerly a history prof.

  Bob Filner, the embattled mayor of San Diego who faces allegations of sexual harassment and abuse, taught in the history department at San Diego State University for over twenty years before running for Congress in 1993. Filner, who was born in Pittsburgh, received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His Ph.D. dissertation, entitled “Science and Politics in England, 1930-1945: The Social Relations of Science Movement,” was completed under the supervision of L. Pearce Williams in 1973. He was employed as a historian of science by San Diego State from 1970 until his election to Congress in 1993. HNN filed a public records request at SDSU for Filner's employment records, but we were informed that all employment files at that university are purged after ten years.

• SOURCE: Darin Hayton's Blog
  7-18-13
  

  Darin Hayton: Edward Shorter Doubles Down on His Criticism of Historians of Science

  Darin Hayton is a historian of early modern science at Haverford College.

• SOURCE: Scientific American
  4-15-13
  

  Cantankerous Historian of Science Questions Whether Science Can Achieve “Truth”

  One of the best things about teaching at Stevens Institute of Technology, which I joined in 2005, is shooting the shit with distinguished historian of science James E. McClellan III. Jim has authored, co-authored or edited half a dozen books, including Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction, which he wrote with our late Stevens colleague Harold Dorn. The book, which won an award from the World History Association, serves as my textbook when I teach “History of Science and Technology.” Every time I read the book I learn something new, which perhaps means that I never read it carefully enough. Just kidding. I’ve learned more about the history of science from Jim than I like to admit....Horgan: To what extent can we learn about the emergence of modern science by focusing on pre-revolutionary France?

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-16-13
  

  Lawrence M. Krauss: Deafness at Doomsday

  TO our great peril, the scientific community has had little success in recent years influencing policy on global security. Perhaps this is because the best scientists today are not directly responsible for the very weapons that threaten our safety, and are therefore no longer the high priests of destruction, to be consulted as oracles as they were after World War II.