Blogging the history of science 11 Aug 20084 Oct 2017 A chance link to my blog has led me through an ego search to find Will Thomas’ most excellent Ether Wave Propaganda blog. Will is a historian of science post-doc, I think, and he has an engaging style. Coincidentally, John Lynch lists various links to history of science, including a number of bloggers (your host included). It looks like the beginnings of a Mexican wave of historians. I recommend Will’s post linked to at the start of this post as a discussion of the role and justification for doing history of science. Uncategorized
Uncategorized On epigenetics 6 Apr 2009 Here is an interesting discussion of a recent paper on the operational and theoretical definitions of “epigenetics”. This term – which has a deep history, well before genetics – is interpreted in every manner from inherited histone patterns on chromosomes to parental investment and extrasomatic inheritance. The authors of the… Read More
Uncategorized What is philosophy? 16 Dec 2008 Below the fold is a video produced by the Australasian Association of Philosophy back in the 1990s. The talking head is, I think, Graeme Graham Priest. Read More
Uncategorized Yet Another Philosophy of Science Blog… 19 Mar 2009 But this one’s going to be huge. The Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science has a new group blog. [How do I know? I set it up.] It will act as a clearing house for events and ideas at what has become a very large concentration of HPS types… Read More
Interestingly (to me) I read the title of this post as referring to the History of blogging-about-science rather than blogging about the History of Science. It was not, in fact, until I read the last three words of the post that I realised and went back to re-read the post from the beginning. I wonder why I read it that way even though I think that History of Science is The Most Awesomest Thing Evar… hmm
Interestingly (to me) I read the title of this post as referring to the History of blogging-about-science rather than blogging about the History of Science. It was not, in fact, until I read the last three words of the post that I realised and went back to re-read the post from the beginning. I wonder why I read it that way even though I think that History of Science is The Most Awesomest Thing Evar… hmm
Oh and your link to me doesn’t go to the post: http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/2008/08/the_big_list_of_history_of_sci.php
Oh and your link to me doesn’t go to the post: http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/2008/08/the_big_list_of_history_of_sci.php
Oh and your link to me doesn’t go to the post: http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/2008/08/the_big_list_of_history_of_sci.php
ephant – I read it that way too. If someone were to write a history of science blogging, The Most Awesomest Thing Evar would be the perfect title.
ephant – I read it that way too. If someone were to write a history of science blogging, The Most Awesomest Thing Evar would be the perfect title.
ephant – I read it that way too. If someone were to write a history of science blogging, The Most Awesomest Thing Evar would be the perfect title.
ephant – I read it that way too. If someone were to write a history of science blogging, The Most Awesomest Thing Evar would be the perfect title.