Robert Harington reviews Fred Dylla’s book, Scientific Journeys: A Physicist Explores the Culture, History and Personalities of Science, a collection of prose pieces that portray the author’s approach to a world of science and the science of the world.
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Universities need democracy, and vice versa. An important book shows the 20th century history of that relationship in the United States, and offers a prescription for what we do now that both are imperiled.
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The story of white bread’s rise and fall offers a lesson in the circular nature of manufacturing and consumer culture.
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A lesson in publishing’s past is provided by George Gissing’s Victorian Era novel.
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An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.
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An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.
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This week marks the end of an era, as the iPod is officially discontinued.
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A new study offers — surprise — mostly bad news about the state of Humanities graduate education. Even while we know how important humanistic perspectives are for, well, humanity.
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First in a series on histories made difficult or impossible though war or climate disasters, this post features two historians of Russia and Eastern Europe.
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Robert Harington and Melinda Baldwin discuss whether peer review has a role to play in uncovering scientific fraud.
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Some scientific “urban legends” get debunked in today’s video. How does incorrect “common knowledge” become established?
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We are always living through history. For historians, though, the current moment is always a culmination. Revisiting a post from January 2021 in preparation for a series.
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How infuriating is it to watch a movie about your area of expertise and realize just how wrong it is?
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Are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.
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The restoration of a glorious portrait raises questions about the scholarly Version of Record.
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