Oil on Canvas of a experimental demonstration, public domain What is the first image conjured up in your mind by the word …
For Luganda click here. In early 2016, people across the United States became aware of a new threat—Zika virus. A New York …
Hannah Landecker writes about the new metabolism as “a model in which food enters the body and in a sense never leaves …
According to accepted wisdom and textbooks, “metabolism” is a nineteenth-century term and concept, established at the confluence of organic chemistry, cell biology, …
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 …
In Marshallese culture the environment itself is sacred.[1] Yet American colonizers used ancestral environments in the Marshall Islands for devastating nuclear weapons …
On Wednesday, the day after our 2017 presidential election, I dreaded having to put on my host face to go out to …
Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics Maurizio Meloni Palgrave MacMilllan, 2016, 284 pages In …
Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome Sarah Richardson University of Chicago Press, 2013, 320 pages …
Ludwik Fleck’s theory of thought styles and thought collectives – translations and receptions March 10th – 11th 2016 Wrocław, Poland Organizing committee: …
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 …
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Helen Verran, a historian and philosopher of science who …
A conversation with Mario Biagioli. Mario Biagioli is a Distinguished Professor of Law and Science and Technology Studies, as well as Director …
As more cultural commodities enter the market, cultural distinctions will become muted to suit the appetites of a wider clientele — Read …
The signfiicance of selling a personal substance in the public market. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
What do you normally have for lunch? Leftovers? A sandwich? Do you bring it from home or do you buy it from …
Earlier this week, I shared a link on Twitter to a piece on Brain Pickings on how anthropologist Margaret Mead suggested we …