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It’s easy to make fun of astrology, but are we lazy in our criticisms? Guest post by Dr Rebekah Higgitt.

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theatlanticcities.com - Amanda Erickson

New York Magazine has perused the city’s online photo archives and pulled together what must be an exhaustive account of all the roles horses used to play in the city. Among the more interestng roles was that of a subway digger (see below). See the complete list (with pictures!) here. All photos courtesy of New York City’s online archives.

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

When Mrs. B-logger and I moved from Washington, DC, to Durham in 2003, we only half-jokingly said we wished we could move our friends and some of our favorite restaurants and stores with us. When the Cady Lumber Corporation decided to move in 1924 to get access to more timber, its owners did just that. It moved all of its employees. And their families—800 people in all. From Louisiana to Arizona. This was the very definition of moving lock, stock, and barrel. At the time, moving a lumber camp w…  »

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blogs.oregonstate.edu - Jacob Hamblin

As we head into the London summer Olympics of 2012, we can pause to reflect upon  what happened four years ago in Beijing, as one of the world’s largest-scale polluters cleaned up its capital for the moment when all eyes were upon it.  It seems like we will see countless flashbacks of that memorable opening ceremony (I don’t envy the Brits having to top that), but behind that facade is a country with unfinished business.  And a reminder that the rest of the world, especially the United States, …  »

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cbc.ca

The federal government identified 142 contaminated sites as of last September where pollutants need to be contained or eliminated because of a long-term or immediate threat to human health or the environment.

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adammandelman.net - Adam Mandelman

Porous Places – A blog about watery landscapes A few posts ago, I wrote about what happens when a river in high water jumps its banks to find a new channel or even form an entirely new delta. But often a flooding river overcomes its levees without changing course. Whether deposited by the river or built up by humans in search of flood protection, levees can fail, unleashing a torrent of water over the landscape in an event traditionally known along the lower Mississippi River as a “crevasse.”1 …  »

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londonbytes.wordpress.com - Belinda

Coming to London for the 2012 Olympics? Keen to see more than back-to-back sporting events? Grab your camera and walking shoes, and check out these history of science hot spots, all within a short distance of Piccadilly Circus. If you’re really keen, you can get this mini-marathon done in a single day. Be sure to check the opening times of museums and galleries, and be aware that some places require advance booking for entry or tours, or may be accessible only when public lectures are scheduled…  »

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bshs.org.uk - Bill Griffith and John Hudson

Lablanc Process from the historical gallery "Birth of an Industry" at Catalyst. Image courtesy of Catalyst Science Discovery Centre. The Catalyst Science Discovery Centre is the only science and discovery centre in the country devoted to chemistry. It was opened on its current site in 1986 and is run by a charitable Trust. The building was originally built as offices for John Hutchinson’s alkali works (probably in 1862). After the absorption of Hutchinson’s by the United Alkali Company in 1891 …  »

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blogs.royalsociety.org - Emma Davidson

I recently received an enquiry about whether the Royal Society publishes obituaries of deceased Fellows and, if so, when this practice began. The first part of the question was easy to answer, as I am moderately familiar with the Society’s current series of obituaries, the Biographical Memoirs, but I realised I had no idea when they started. One of the lovely things about my job is that I am expected to pursue this sort of thing, so I dived into the records with relish. Biographical Memoirs has…  »

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blog.oup.com - Alice

By Barbara Rogoff Doña Chona, at the presentation of our book in San Pedro, wearing traditional finery and her favorite Birkenstocks. Photo © Domingo Yojcom Chavajay 2011. Doña Chona Pérez, who turns 87 this week, was born with a piece of the amniotic sac over her head like a veil, indicating a birth destiny of being a sacred midwife. This credential indicating divine selection to the profession has been recognized in the Mayan region for many years. Traditional Mayan midwives continue skilled  »

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openculture.com - Matthias Rascher

Leonardo da Vinci, the archetype of the Renaissance Man, received some formal training in the anatomy of the human body. He regularly dissected human corpses and made very detailed drawings of muscles, tendons, the heart and vascular system, internal organs and the human skeleton. A great number of these drawings can now be seen in the largest exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci’s studies of the human body, “Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist,” at The Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace, London. In this…  »

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theglobeandmail.com - JEFFREY SIMPSON

The Harper Conservatives, in reaching back to Dief the Chief, are reframing parts of our history that suit their agenda

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cbc.ca

Researchers at the New Brunswick Museum are reporting the largest bat population that hibernates in the province has been wiped out by a deadly infection.

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guardian.co.uk

Gill Lewis, author of Sky Hawk and White Dolphin, explains how to observe and absorb wild places and wildlife and then write them into your stories

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bbc.co.uk

Car parks in the United States take up land the size of Puerto Rico, according to a new book which suggests architects and planners need to think more imaginatively about parking lots. So what are the options?

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cbc.ca - Lisa Ayuso

The budget bill before parliament has a great many tentacles affecting everything from oil and gas exploration to environmental assessment to fish. One outspoken critic, a former Progressive Conservative fisheries minister calls it a return to the Dark Ages. Part Two of The Current Changes to the Fisheries Act – Minister for Fisheries and Oceans The Omnibus Budget Bill that’s before Parliament this week covers an array of legislation that you might not connect right away to the budget. For e…  »

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antspiderbee.net - Kimberly Coulter

As the Internet delivers ever-more specific search results and personalized content, we increasingly miss out on surprising connections. Our project, the Environment & Society Portal, offers something different: an exploratory experience that lets users visualize spatial, temporal, and thematic relationships. Since its launch in early 2012, the Portal provides an international community of academics, students, and the interested public with the opportunity to explore and discover free, openly a…  »

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cbc.ca

A series of federal department archives are set to close and many jobs will be lost throughout Library and Archives Canada as part of the latest federal budget cuts.

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theglobeandmail.com - TZEPORAH BERMAN

As the Harper government moves to stifle opposition to its expansionist energy policies, Canadians are realizing that they face a battle for the country’s soul

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Wayne State University Reuther Library’s "I Am A Man" Exhibition detailing Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Worker’s Strike.

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realtimefarming.wordpress.com - Josh MacFadyen

While other farmers readied the plow and burnt brush on new clearings, Francis Bain spent most of his April days in the woods and on the shore writing about the first migratory bird sightings. Today we usually think of nature observation as an activity for public space, but Bain would not have understood the delineations between public land and the rest of nature. This man had full range of his environment, going out in every direction at every time of day.  When he heard a bird he “went in pur…  »

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New methods for understanding the link between genes and living things have helped quadruple the average cow’s milk production since your parents were born.

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In creating dedicated departments, we made the environment another special interest, like education, health, and agriculture.

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agrienvarchive.ca

This site is an archive of agri-environmental programs delivered in Ontario, 1972-1997, representing over $150M investment. Over 550 PDF environmental reports are available. Manure management and bioenergy issues are also documented.

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d4vmos.wordpress.com - d4vmos

Last night (1st May 2012), BBC4 had an interesting documentary examining the history of Yellowstone National Park . It focussed on Aldo Leopold, an American ecologist, an influential figure in the construction of the ecological environmentalism that emerged in the second half of the 20th Century. Leopold, penned an essay titled ‘Thinking like a Mountain’ in 1949, in which he outlined what he saw as the interconnectedness of an entire ecosystem. Apparently, confronted with the embers of the dying  »

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nuclearsecrecy.com - Alex Wellerstein

An article of mine (“A Tale of Openness and Secrecy: The Philadelphia Story”) has recently been published in Physics Today. Even better, the article has been made available for free on the Physics Today website (and as a PDF), so it can be read widely. Click to go to the article online. The basic story is thus: in late 1945, a group of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, led by one William E. Stephens, decided that it would be a really cool thing to write their own, heavily-technical  »

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theatlantic.com

New methods for understanding the link between genes and living things have helped quadruple the average cow’s milk production since your parents were born.

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Sometime between fifteen and thirty thousand years ago, probably in the Middle East, the long, protracted process of domestication began to alter the genetic code of …

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pachs.net

The Festival of the Spoken Nerd, an English comedy group, combines comedy with science and performs at festivals and other venues across England and Scotland. Their success along with the success of last week’s “Love, Sex, Death (and Food)” suggests that comedy might be a good way to make history of science and science more interesting to a broader audience.

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spoletousa.org

For 17 days and nights each spring, Spoleto Festival USA fills Charleston, South Carolinas historic theaters, churches, and outdoor spaces with over 120 performances by renowned artists as well as emerging performers in disciplines ranging from opera, theater, music theater, dance, and chamber, symphonic, choral, and jazz music, as well as the visual arts.

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dissertationreviews.org - Barbara J. Becker

A review of The Herschels: A Scientific Family in Training, by Emily Winterburn. William Herschel and his family have long been subjects of interest for historians and popularizers. The Herschels were blessed with uncommon longevity: two event-filled centuries elapsed from the time of William’s birth in 1738 to the death of his youngest grandchild in 1939. The lives of the notable among them (William, his sister Caroline and son John) were rife with exciting tales of adventure, discovery and ro…  »

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chemheritage.org

It’s an old case, but not a cold case. Isaac Newton left clues in his own hand. “Two women clothed riding on two lyons each with a heart in her hand….The right hand lyon farts on a company of young lions behind it….” Rather than an example of bad taste, Newton’s farting lion is part of a sophisticated chemical process. Unfortunately, no one has yet unlocked its meaning.

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nytimes.com - By JOHN MARKOFF

The Simons Foundation plans to announce on Tuesday that the University of California, Berkeley, will be the home of a new center that combines computing theory with fields like biology or economics.

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thonyc.wordpress.com

Yesterday,one of the websites that I read on a regular basis informed me that the notorious Renaissance physician Theophrastus of Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus, was born on 1st May 1493 a c…

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Sometime between fifteen and thirty thousand years ago, probably in the Middle East, the long, protracted process of domestication began to alter the genetic code of …

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planetark.org

In the wilderness of Washington state’s Olympic National Park, hydraulic hammers chip away at the Glines Canyon Dam in the largest dam-removal project in U.S. history.

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dhayton.haverford.edu - Darin

A recent article in the Guardian asked once again: “Should science journalists read the papers on which their stories are…

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Science writers and scientists frequently discuss whether or not science writers should read the scientific papers on which their stories are based. What would happen if we asked similar questions of science writers and scientists who relied on historical sources?

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May 1st is the birthday of Johann Jakob Balmer. Balmer was a Swiss mathematician who used the hydrogen spectra values found by Anders Ångström and found the values were separated … Read Full Post

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carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de

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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theglobeandmail.com

Like our first prime minister and his National Policy, our current PM is turning U.S. rejection into an economic opportunity by shipping oil-sands crude to Asia

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seankheraj.com - seankheraj

Episode 30 Environmental Histories of Montreal: 1 May 2012 [49:44] Last year, the University of Pittsburgh Press published its first book on Canadian urban environmental history titled Metropolitan Natures: Environmental Histories of Montreal. This diverse collection of essays was edited by two leading scholars of Quebec environmental history, Stephane Castonguay and Michele Dagenais. This episode of the podcast explores some of the environmental histories of Montreal. Montreal is one of the o…  »

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newsfeed.time.com - Erik Hayden

A video game about a 19th-century philosopher living in a shack, where there’s only one character and nothing happens? Sign us up! Yes, the knee-jerk reaction to the idea of a role-playing videogame made out of Walden — Henry David Thoreau’s 1840s treatise on outdoorsmanship and self reliance — may be cynicism. But a group [...]

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atguelph.uoguelph.ca - Andrew Vowles

Jennifer Bonnell She’s a bit nervous about the fieldwork. But Jennifer Bonnell is excited about her new research project at U of G, where she began a post-doc this year on the history of beekeeping. Through a historian’s-eye view of changes in this ageless craft, she hopes to help practitioners, scientists and environmentalists stem declines in pollinators vital to making food and protecting natural biodiversity. Pollinators, including bees, help produce food as well as other agricultural and f…  »

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bshs.org.uk - Alan Dronsfield

The Landmark Plaque was presented to Prof Rod Coombs, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Manchester University by RSC President Prof David Phillips. Photograph by Diana Leitch. Chemical Landmark plaque to mark the centenary of Rutherford’s nuclear atom The presentation took place in the Conference Centre, University Place, Manchester University on Monday 8th August 2011 as the opening part of the Rutherford Centennial Conference organised by the Institute of Physics to celebrate the centenary of the pub…  »

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americanscience.blogspot.com - Hank

A recent dust-up between physicist/author Lawrence Krauss and philosopher of science David Albert should be of interest to anyone who studies science and wonders about how such studies interact with and are perceived by scientists. The controversy started with Albert’s NYT review of Krauss’s new book, A Universe from Nothing. The book is part cosmological primer and part anti-religious screed (featuring an afterword by Richard Dawkins!), building on a lecture Krauss gave in 2009 that’s had…  »

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washingtonpost.com

State and federal biologists try to prove — or disprove — that the giant invasive snakes are the reason for the near disappearance of rabbits, opossums, raccoons, foxes and even bobcats.

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adammandelman.net - Adam Mandelman

Porous Places – A blog about watery landscapes I recently came across a fascinating old post from landscape-architecture junky Geoff Manaugh over at BLDGBLOG (“building blog”). Manaugh summarizes an event that took place on June 4, 2011 as part of Political Equator 3, a border-crossing, mobile conference that was held simultaneously in San Diego and Tijuana. The event in question was a participatory, performance-based art project that transformed a culvert into a “pop-up” border crossing. Mexic…  »

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rhizophora.net - Jeffery K. Johnson

Tweet For historians, a lot of the debate about digital humanities hinges on the tension between our work as scholarship and our work as content in an age when we have new ways of thinking and representing the past. We are hitched to a model of linear publishing that funnels scholarship through shaping by lineage, vetting by guild, and blessing by imprint. Naked under these holy gerunds, though, scholarship is a message, a condensed block of meaning sent forth into the wide world looking for ey…  »

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JF Ptak Science Books Post 1800 "The name Magic Square, is given to a square divided into several other small equal squares or cells, filled up with the terms of any progression of numbers, but generally ah arithmetical one, in…

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Scientific American ‘s review of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1964 ended with the pat pronouncement that the book was "much ado about very little." The short piece, which appeared two years after the initial publication of Structure as a monograph in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science , discarded as unoriginal Kuhn’s critique of the positivist argument that science progresses relentlessly forward toward the truth. [More]

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dhayton.haverford.edu - Darin

YouTube that briefly looks at and explains five historical misconceptions: horned Viking helmets, Lady Godiva, the tiny Napoleon, the infamous…

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pachs.net

YouTube user C.G.P. Grey joins the struggle to dislodge the Columbus proved the earth was round myth.

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graecomuse.wordpress.com - GraecoMuse

Cuneiform has always interested me. It is difficult and subject to a huge amount of interpretation and choice. So let me set it out for you so that you can understand better the complexity of Cuneiform. One of the first … Continue reading →

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nuclearsecrecy.com

Restricted Data is a blog about nuclear secrecy, past and present, run by Alex Wellerstein, an historian of science.

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