blogs.oregonstate.edu - Jacob Hamblin

One of the consequences of the educational system in the United States and Europe (perhaps elsewhere too) is that, at an early age, children make decisions about whether they are good at math and science or good at the humanities.  They choose a side.  Commentators have harped upon the great divide for many years, from today’s debates about the importance of the STEM fields, on back to the post-Sputnik “two cultures” conversation launched by C. P. Snow, and earlier in time to Charles Babbage’s …  »

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cbc.ca

Watch your favourite CBC Shows, News and Sports. The National, Hockey Night in Canada, George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, Michael Tuesdays and Thursdays, Rick Mercer Report, 22 Minutes, Being Erica, Camelot, Battle of the Blades, Dragon’s Den, Cover Me Canada, InSecurity

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ceciliasuhrresearch.blogspot.com - Cecilia Suhr

Call for Working Group Members: Evaluating Creative Production in Digital Environments Social media have dramatically popularized practices of evaluation, especially of cultural products and expressions. We are able to rate and “like” pretty much any shared content on social networking sites, from music to blogs, videos to news reports. Artists are developing reputations and careers now through a complex blend of online social reputation and distribution platforms and more longstanding forms …  »

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A misleading report endorsed by Alberta’s Premier will do nothing to enhance the export prospects of the province’s key resource

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Butterflies have migrated across Eastern Canada this spring in unprecedented numbers, reflecting the warm winter throughout North America and raising alarm bells about what it might mean for other species.

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The Rachel Carson Center is a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum. Generously supported by the German Ministry for Research and Education, its goal is to further research and discussion in the field of international environmental studies and to strengthen the role of the humanities in the current political and scientific debates about the environment.

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Three signers of accord say not enough milestones have been met while others hail ‘significant progress’

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stillwaterhistorians.com - Katherine O’Flaherty

http://www.perspirationjournal.com /wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Thoreau _Simplify-223×300.jpg There is an interesting piece on ProfHacker this week called “Simplify, Simplify!” Ryan Cordell asks if we really need all that stuff around us.  As he prepares for a cross country move Cordell is philosophical about what’s worth bringing and what goes in the garage sale pile.  He mentions Thoreau who had three nice pieces of limestone on his desk and then realized that they needed to be dusted daily.  …  »

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kcet.org - Nathan Masters

Although the orange and the palm loom large in Southern California’s iconography, another imported tree — the eucalyptus — has been almost as prominent a feature of the region’s landscape. Eucalypti grace parks and gardens and shade sidewalks and roadways. In many suburbs, long rows of the tree, planted long ago as windbreaks, betray the land’s past use for citriculture. But prior to the 1850s, not a single eucalyptus grew in California, which raises the question: how did this tree, an invader  »

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adammandelman.net - Adam Mandelman

Porous Places – A blog about watery landscapes A few posts back, I flagged an 1856 map showing major mountains and rivers of the world arranged by size. One of the reasons I like that map is that it lays out dozens of river mouths side-by-side. As you scan the lineup, you’re reminded just how many major centers of human history have in fact been located in the watery landscapes of river mouths, whether delta or estuary. But what exactly is the story behind human occupation of deltas? How far ba…  »

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Fredericton, once known as the City of Stately Elms before Dutch elm disease devastated North American trees, is working on bringing back those shady streets.

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theglobeandmail.com - Heather Scoffield and Jennifer Ditchburn

‘Why should taxpayers have to pay for more than 10 reports promoting … something that the people of Canada have repeatedly rejected?’

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The Rachel Carson Center is a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum. Generously supported by the German Ministry for Research and Education, its goal is to further research and discussion in the field of international environmental studies and to strengthen the role of the humanities in the current political and scientific debates about the environment.

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guardian.co.uk - Adam Smith

Science for the Future claims funding policies risk plunging British science and industry ‘back into the Dark Ages’ More than 100 scientists took part in a mock Victorian funeral procession in Westminster on Tuesday morning to protest against a science funding policy they claim "puts the future of British science in mortal danger". The scientists staged a rally outside parliament before delivering a petition in a coffin to Downing Street. Around 25 scientists also met their MPs to ask them to s…  »

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Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird appeared to confirm in question period what the rumour mill suspected: the Harper government shut down the NRTEE environmental advisory group because it didn’t like the advice it was getting on climate change.

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science.kqed.org - Lauren Sommer

A map of the Delta created by the US Geological Survey in the 1910s. As detective stories go, this sunny, spring day in the Delta isn’t a typical backdrop. In the distance, tractors move slowly through dry fields of row crops. "Once he got lost, they were wandering all over," says Alison Whipple of the San Francisco Estuary Institute, a non-profit research group based in Richmond. Her colleague, Robin Grossinger, agrees. "They were all over this place." The two are trying to piece together the …  »

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eseh.org - ESEH

The deadline for applications to the ESEH 2012 Summer School in St. Petersburg has been postponed to 31 May 2012!

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antspiderbee.net - The Spider

The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is at the heart of California’s water supply. This inland delta, where two major rivers converge and mingle with San Francisco Bay tides, has been re-engineered and re-plumbed over the last 160 years to meet the needs of a growing state. Little is known about the Delta as it once was. Now, as efforts get underway to save the Delta’s failing ecosystem, researchers at the San Francisco Estuary Institute are reconstructing this complex landscape using thousands of …  »

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activehistory.ca - Guest

Image by Radha-Prema Pelletier By Jessica Van Horssen So the winter semester is over, and for those of us at Quebec universities, what a semester it’s been! Specifically, McGill University has had its share of drama this year, with strikes, occupations, computer hacking, and demonstrations against the Quebec government’s plans for tuition hikes. With all of these things going on, it’s no wonder one of McGill’s dirty little secrets has been quietly pushed aside. Attached is the talk I gave at Mc…  »

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What did the Delta look like 200 years ago? See an interactive map of the historical habitat and present day landscape, as well as the old photos, maps and journals used by historical ecologists to answer that question.

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Environmentalists say leaders at June’s Rio+20 summit must urgently step up nature protection, as a report confirms a 30% fall in wildlife since 1970.

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stillwaterhistorians.com - Rob Gee

I’m here in St. John, New Brunswick where the ACS conference packed up and left town a few days back, and I’m beginning to feel a bit like the guy left behind by the wagon train.  I’ve stayed behind to do a bit of research after a most compelling visit last Friday with Randy Miller at the New Brunswick Museum archives–which is deserving of a whole blog post unto itself!  Since the conference cleared out my debit card has stopped working and I came down with a cold.  Has anybody else noticed that  »

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themarknews.com - David Suzuki

Canada would be a different place without our 80,000 registered charities dedicated to everything from health to economic policy to the environment. We’d be much poorer without the two million employees and millions of volunteers who devote their time to causes that strengthen our nation. Recent efforts by the federal government and its backers in media and industry front groups like Ethical Oil to demonize and silence legitimate organizations ignore the important role charities play in Canada….  »

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wellcomeunitlibrary.wordpress.com - Alice Nelson

We have just added the website Pulse-Project.org to our HSMT Oxford Delicious page.  The Pulse Project offers dozens of podcasts and video lectures on the sciences and medical humanities.  The lectures have been drawn from international conferences on The Disease Within: Confinement in Europe, 1400-1800 (Oxford Brookes), Health and Society: Private and Public Medical Traditions in Greece and the Balkans (1453-1920) (Athens), The History of Medicine Museum in Past and Present (Budapest), Eugenic…  »

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The book Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science, Mary Jo Nye is published by University of Chicago Press.

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The main theme of this book is American environmentalism and the development of the modern environmental movement. Starting with the standard narrative for the development of this movement, Chad Montrie lays out in chronological order how it is

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Chemistry can be a dirty business—just ask Isaac Newton. He begins one of his alchemical recipes with “Take of Urin one Barrel.” He then instructs the person with the newly acquired barrel of urine to let it ferment for three months in the summer. Neighbors back then must have been a less litigious bunch.

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telegraph.co.uk - Noel Malcolm

An examination of magic’s role in the birth of science intrigues Noel Malcolm

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whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com - whyevolutionistrue

From the Darwin Correspondence Project via Thony Christie and Matthew Cobb, we have an exchange between Charles Darwin and an anxious believer, desperate to understand how she can comport evolution with her faith. Mary Boole of London wrote Darwin in 1866, seven years after the publication of The Origin: Dear Sir Will you excuse my venturing to ask you a question to which no one’s answer but your own would be quite satisfactory to me. Do you consider the holding of your Theory of Natural Select…  »

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blogs.otago.ac.nz

Kirsten Walsh writes… In the General Scholium to Book 3 of Principia, Newton wrote: “Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.” He went on to explain that such a cause would be a [...]

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guardian.co.uk - John Vidal

The history books are full of William Herschel’s achievements, but say little about his sister. Stella tells a different story One of the least expected successes in London’s West End last week was Stella by the Take the Space theatre company. The three actors wore their own clothes, hadn’t learned any lines, and there were only about 20 people in the invited audience who met in a circular room high above the Aldwych. Moreover, the show was hardly a barrel of laughs, being about female astronom…  »

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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

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Fascinating #histsci @ri_science in Patricia Fara talk on time&space in scientific imagery. Example: Hooke’s drunk ant http://t.co/e4NYAQW4

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Diagram showing the anatomy of the abdomen of a dead female foetus (1698). #histmed #histsci http://t.co/RX5WBDrJ

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thechirurgeonsapprentice.com

Drawing depicting the skeleton of a child from Dutch anatomical text (1690).  In 1624, Parliament passed an act that made murdering or concealing the death of an illegitimate child illegal. It st…

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thechirurgeonsapprentice.com

A physiological demonstration with vivisection of a dog. Oil painting by Emile-Edouard Mouchy, 1832. From the Wellcome Library, London.    In 1664, Robert Hooke—a pioneering member of the Royal…

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Chez Jim, Jim Chevallier’s Web Site – A cornucopia of a panoply of a bouquet of words, images, history and the distant yet insistence aroma of breads…. Among the subjects: books, bread history, creative writing, translations, free monologues, bullying, wine history, the Bastille, how to Cook a Peacock, Anthimus’ De Observatione Ciborum, The Monologue Bin, Suicide Monologues, articles, reviews, pictures of Paris, Wilhoite, Demarquet, Richcreek and Chevallier genealogy, Film Funding information…

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They called it ‘the deadly nevergreen’, the tree which bore fruit all year long. The scaffold at Tyburn consisted of three posts—each ten to twelve feet high—held together by three wooden c…

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thechirurgeonsapprentice.com - The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice

Amongst a collection of medical oddities housed at the Surgeons’ Hall Museum in Edinburgh lies a tattered pocketbook [left], no longer than the length of a man’s hand. It is dark brown—nearly black—with a pebbled texture and gold lettering that has begun to fade with age. To the untrained eye, it is altogether unremarkable in its appearance. However, upon closer inspection, the words ‘EXECUTED 28 JAN 1829’ and ‘BURKE’S SKIN POCKET BOOK’ come into focus, revealing the item’s true origins. This is  »

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Kingston’s new and largest Art Gallery and Museum with over 13,000 works of art in the permanent collection. Includes paintings, sculptures by major Canadian artists, European old master paintings, Inuit prints and sculpture, antique silver and glass, heritage quilts and costumes, European graphics (Renaissance to 20th century), and African art. Eight galleries, an art studio, gallery shop, art rental and sales, and facility rentals.

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thechirurgeonsapprentice.com - The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice

It is half past two in the morning on October 10th, 1777. The new moon casts a bluish light over St George’s burial ground off Hanover Square in London. Two men, clad in dark clothes, enter the cemetery. They have been tipped off by the grave-digger who accompanies them that the body of Mrs. Jane Sainsbury was buried earlier that day. Carefully, they navigate around the tombstones until they come to the freshly dug grave. With spades and shovels, they begin soundlessly removing the dark, damp e…  »

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drvitelli.typepad.com - Romeo Vitelli

 Welcome to the latest edition of the Giant’s Shoulders, the monthly blog carnival devoted to the history of science.    With that mind, let’s turn to the numerous and diverse contributions that have been made to this latest edition.  Classified according to the different sciences they represent, we have: Anatomy and Medicine A big hat tip to Thony Christie who contributed numerous suggested posts for addition to this carnival.  One of these posts is from the EvoAnth blog and shows the first e…  »

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Malaria has been a problem for people for all of history. It usually causes symptoms a lot like flu, fevers, chills and nausea–even causing death. The term malaria or mal … Read Full Post

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cbc.ca

Federally owned contaminated sites will cost the government billions of dollars to clean up, according to the 2012 report of Canada’s environment commissioner.

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stillwaterhistorians.com - Katherine O’Flaherty

http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/ issues/2012/1202/images/Cronon-pre-Gen.Mtg.jpg When I got home today the latest issue of Perspectives on History, the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (AHA) was shoved into my mailbox along with a Tim Hortons coupon flyer and a Hannaford grocery store circular.  I almost didn’t notice Perspectives hiding amongst the junk mail.  Ever since Bill Cronon became president of AHA I have taken to reading the “From the President” section, somet…  »

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fhsarchives.wordpress.com - Jamie "Mad B-Logger" Lewis

On this date in 1922, the Agricultural Appropriations Act of May 11 made the first appropriation for the improvement of public campgrounds in national forests. The bill made special reference to the protection of public health and the prevention of forest fires. The U.S. Forest Service received $10,000. What’s most surprising about that amount is that’s what the agency actually suggested it needed in the chief’s annual report the year before—and then they actually received it! The bill was pass…  »

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Instantly connect to what’s most important to you. Follow your friends, experts, favorite celebrities, and breaking news.

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Recent campaigns to extend vaccination to developing nations sound a lot like 19th-century efforts in Pennsylvania to vaccinate poor children.

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May 12th is Dorothy Hodgkin’s birthday. Hodgkin was the British chemist who developed three dimensional x-ray crystallography. X-ray crystallography involved growing a crystal of the sample you wished to investigate, … Read Full Post

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Diagram showing the anatomy of the abdomen of a dead female foetus (1698). #histmed #histsci http://t.co/RX5WBDrJ

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hypotheses.wordpress.com - stevenhill

  There is an understandable focus on the future in science policy discussions. We are often concerned with how investment in science and other research will contribute to future economic growth, health and well-being, and sustainable development. How should we invest now to bring about the future we want to see? What types of science should we support? How should that science be conducted? But the evidence that we draw upon is often about the past. What has been the result of previous investme…  »

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huffingtonpost.ca

Environmental groups in Canada are in the crosshairs of the government, and are under investigation for fiscal mismanagement. But what about groups like the Fraser Institute, which uses foreign money to feed misinformation to children, undermine national and global climate action and block shifts away from the most carbon-intensive energy on earth?

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blogs.royalsociety.org - Emma Davidson

Thus is entitled probably my favourite archival item ever – a little booklet of poems written mainly by John Maynard Smith FRS. According to the title page, this was “presented to Professor J.B.S. Haldane on Guy Fawkes Day, 1952”, and it has just been re-discovered by a visiting student archivist amongst a collection of correspondence. The contents of the booklet are as follows: STRUTHIOMIMUS     or, The Folly of Being Too Clever. ANOMALUS OBSCURUS     or, The Perils of Parthenogenesis. THE BUL…  »

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thechirurgeonsapprentice.com - The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice

Amongst a collection of medical oddities housed at the Surgeons’ Hall Museum in Edinburgh lies a tattered pocketbook [left], no longer than the length of a man’s hand. It is dark brown—nearly black—with a pebbled texture and gold lettering that has begun to fade with age. To the untrained eye, it is altogether unremarkable in its appearance. However, upon closer inspection, the words ‘EXECUTED 28 JAN 1829’ and ‘BURKE’S SKIN POCKET BOOK’ come into focus, revealing the item’s true origins. This is  »

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Jonathan Jones: This year’s supermoon was spectacular. But the moon has appeared in many forms, from Raphael’s childlike image of a luminous being to Galileo Galilei’s drawings of a rocky planet

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Some thoughts generated during today’s MUSE workshop (http://www.museion.ku.dk/muse-workshop-list) with Jesper V. Kragh, speaking about "Changing Gender Differences: Morphine in Denmark, 1860-1960"

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Advertisement feature: While the beauty of the bicycle is in its simplicity, the origins of this amazing invention are somewhat more complicated …

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May 11th marks the passing of the English astronomer, Sir John Frederick William Herschel. He was one of the better known English scientists of the time and made several contributions … Read Full Post

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blog.friendsofdarwin.com - Richard Carter FCD

I have to admit, when I head that Aardman Animation, the makers of Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, etc., had made an animated film about Pirates in an adventure with none other than Charles Darwin, I was concerned that it might contain one or two historical inaccuracies. However, I am pleased to report that whatever liberties the film takes with established historical fact—diabolical though they might seem—can easily be explained. First things first, though: as we have come to expect from Aardma…  »

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bshs.org.uk - Charles Tanford & Jacqueline Reynolds

Neuchâtel by Akane86. Image licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license. Louis Agassiz, the leading figure in persuading geologists that a recent Ice Age had engulfed Europe, was one of the first professors to be appointed to the University of Neuchatel in 1840. He is honoured by a bust and plaque in the principal administrative building at the corner of Avenue du Premier Mars and Rue P. L Culon, but, sadly, the local natural history museum at the present time has no  »

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A nice carving of Charles Darwin I stumbled upon at UQ. Will use this as part of a series of lessons.#histsci #scied http://t.co/IcCG5Dkl

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