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 Judging experiments 30 Dec 200718 Sep 2017 This is a field in which I am largely ignorant, so I will just report it and leave the commenters to interpret. Collider blog has a discussion of an idea reported by Charm &c. in a paper at arXiv by Bruce Knudsen, proposing that experiments should be assessed using Shannon… Read More
Uncategorized The narratives of science journalism 14 Sep 2008 It occurs to me that I don’t have a good list of these, so I invite you all to list and name your favourite science journalism narratives. You know, the sorts of things that journalists must squeeze every science story into, no matter what the actual content. Journalists in general… Read More
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
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.