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Category Archives: General science
The Giant’s Shoulders #47 is up at The Medical Heritage Library!
A week delayed, but worth the wait: the 47th edition of The Giant’s Shoulders history of science blog carnival is up at The Medical Heritage Library! In this edition, you can read about: the politics of Isaac Newton’s knighthood, the … Continue reading
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The Giant’s Shoulders #46 is out!
Delayed a week due to technical issues, the long-awaited 46th edition of The Giant’s Shoulders history of science blog carnival is up at Providentia! It’s a doozy, featuring things such as: How Jewish leaders reacted to Darwin’s theory of evolution, An … Continue reading
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The Giant’s Shoulders #45
Welcome to the 45th edition of The Giant’s Shoulders, the monthly history of science blog carnival! We’ve got a lot of interesting entries to cover, so let’s get going! Captain of the men of death. Over at White Coat Underground, … Continue reading
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The Giant’s Shoulders #44 — The Grand Bazaar Edition — is now up!
The 44th edition of The Giant’s Shoulders, the history of science blog carnival, is up over at The Renaissance Mathematicus! In it, you can read about: The tale of the first woman to go around the world — in the … Continue reading
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What a scientist looks like! (Also on Scientific American)
One of the neat things that has evolved out of the recently-concluded Science Online 2012 is the new site “This is What a Scientist Looks Like“. Founded by the excellent Allie Wilkinson, the site solicits photos and descriptions of scientists … Continue reading
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Science Online 2012: A visit to the North Carolina Museum for Natural Sciences
The second of a series of posts chronicling my observations and experiences at Science Online 2012, which I attended last week. I love museums! My parents, especially my father, started taking me to science museums and zoos in the Chicago … Continue reading
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The Giant’s Shoulders #43 is out — People, places & things!
The 43rd edition of the history of science blog carnival The Giant’s Shoulders is out today over at The Dispersal of Darwin! Go there to read about the people, places and things of the history of science, including: Victorian poet scientists Legends … Continue reading
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The Giant’s Shoulders #42 is out!
The 42nd edition of The Giant’s Shoulders, the history of science blog carnival, is up at PACHSmörgåsbord! In it, you can see maps of the Moon that date back to the 17th century, how to write the square root of 2 in … Continue reading
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Mireya Mayor’s “Pink Boots and a Machete”
In my studies of historical figures, I’ve reserved a special spot in my heart for those people whose lived their lives, for lack of a better word, “awesomely”. My criterion for such “awesome” people is to imagine them arriving … Continue reading
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A Brief History of Stephen Hawking!
In September of this year, the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada opened their new Stephen Hawking Centre to provide more space for more researchers to investigate the foundations of physics. As part of their opening celebration, they … Continue reading
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