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Tag Archives: history of science
200 Years of Illinois: Making way for Fermilab
in american history, Chicago, Illinois / regional
Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, history of science
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It came from the future: Tevatron. The villain in the new Michael Bay feature? Actually, the world’s largest particle accelerator once it opened in 1983. But to get there, the giant underground atom racer/smasher needed a town to get out of … Continue reading
Backlist Bop: Pioneering women scientists
in american history, women, women's history
Tagged history of science, science, women's studies
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The hit film Hidden Figures re-acquainted the zeitgeist with the idea that women in general, and African American women in particular, have long participated in scientific endeavor. Science on the Home Front tells women’s story during the critical years of World War II, when Leona … Continue reading
Release Party: The Science of Sympathy, by Rob Boddice
in European history, natural history
Tagged British history, Charles Darwin, history of science, sympathy
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The new UIP book The Science of Sympathy takes readers back to the Victorian Era and into the arguments over sympathy’s place in Darwinist reconsiderations of science and humanity. Charles Darwin placed sympathy at the crux of morality in a … Continue reading