Tag: History of Science
Yi-Ting Hsu , November 2nd, 2021
Oil on Canvas of a experimental demonstration, public domain What is the first image conjured up in your mind by the word “alchemy”? Influenced by popular culture, it…
Julia Ross Cummiskey , March 23rd, 2020
For Luganda click here. In early 2016, people across the United States became aware of a new threat—Zika virus. A New York Times article that April featured a…
Rebecca Rahimi , October 4th, 2018
Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawing as Metaphor Susan Merrill Squier Duke University Press, 2017. 280 pages Susan Merrill Squier’s Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawing as Metaphor is positioned at t…
M. X. Mitchell , October 12th, 2017
In Marshallese culture the environment itself is sacred.[1] Yet American colonizers used ancestral environments in the Marshall Islands for devastating nuclear weapons testing and related environmenta…
Christopher Lynn , December 4th, 2016
On Wednesday, the day after our 2017 presidential election, I dreaded having to put on my host face to go out to dinner with Dr. Joseph Graves, our…
Alan Goodman , September 21st, 2016
Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics Maurizio Meloni Palgrave MacMilllan, 2016, 284 pages In Political Biology, Maurizio Meloni, one of…
Paula Martin , July 15th, 2016
Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome Sarah Richardson University of Chicago Press, 2013, 320 pages In Sex Itself: The Search for…
Sandra Lang , June 24th, 2016
Ludwik Fleck’s theory of thought styles and thought collectives – translations and receptions March 10th – 11th 2016 Wrocław, Poland Organizing committee: Paweł Jarnicki (Project Science …
Ashley Bowen-Murphy , May 9th, 2016
The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe by Robert M. Brain University of Washington Press, 2016, 384 pages Given the growing divide between STEM and the arts…
Hannah Gibson , May 4th, 2016
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Helen Verran, a historian and philosopher of science who is Adjunct Professor at Charles Darwin…
Hyo Yoon Kang , November 30th, 2015
A conversation with Mario Biagioli. Mario Biagioli is a Distinguished Professor of Law and Science and Technology Studies, as well as Director of the Center for Science and…
Scientific American Blog: Anthropology in Practice , May 15th, 2015
As more cultural commodities enter the market, cultural distinctions will become muted to suit the appetites of a wider clientele — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Scientific American Blog: Anthropology in Practice , May 14th, 2015
The signfiicance of selling a personal substance in the public market. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Scientific American Blog: Anthropology in Practice , April 24th, 2015
What do you normally have for lunch? Leftovers? A sandwich? Do you bring it from home or do you buy it from a local eatery? In New York…
Scientific American Blog: Anthropology in Practice , December 24th, 2014
Earlier this week, I shared a link on Twitter to a piece on Brain Pickings on how anthropologist Margaret Mead suggested we talk to children about Santa Claus:…