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He moved apartments up to sixty times in Vienna. When notes wouldn't come, he stripped down, poured pitchers of cold water over his head, and bellowed scales until the floorboards leaked. Beethoven: deaf, drenched, evicted repeatedly.
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He moved apartments up to sixty times in Vienna. When notes wouldn't come, he stripped down, poured pitchers of cold water over his head, and bellowed scales until the floorboards leaked. Beethoven: deaf, drenched, evicted repeatedly.
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He moved apartments up to sixty times in Vienna. When notes wouldn't come, he stripped down, poured pitchers of cold water over his head, and bellowed scales until the floorboards leaked. Beethoven: deaf, drenched, evicted repeatedly.
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He moved apartments up to sixty times in Vienna. When notes wouldn't come, he stripped down, poured pitchers of cold water over his head, and bellowed scales until the floorboards leaked. Beethoven: deaf, drenched, evicted repeatedly.
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
- #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
- The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
- Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.#Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
- #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
- The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
- Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.#Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
- #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
- The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
- Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.#Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
- #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
- The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
- Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.#Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
- #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
- The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
- Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.#Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon
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05-Sep: On this day in 1831, Charles Darwin first met Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle. Here’s the story… https://friendsofdarwin.com/beau-ideal/
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She stopped going to church at thirty. Skipped her own father's funeral one floor above. And yet Emily Dickinson lowered gingerbread by rope to the neighborhood children she called storm-tossed pirates.
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She stopped going to church at thirty. Skipped her own father's funeral one floor above. And yet Emily Dickinson lowered gingerbread by rope to the neighborhood children she called storm-tossed pirates.
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She stopped going to church at thirty. Skipped her own father's funeral one floor above. And yet Emily Dickinson lowered gingerbread by rope to the neighborhood children she called storm-tossed pirates.
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She stopped going to church at thirty. Skipped her own father's funeral one floor above. And yet Emily Dickinson lowered gingerbread by rope to the neighborhood children she called storm-tossed pirates.
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A bird-headed prince eats souls on a toilet. A choir of the damned sings from sheet music tattooed on a sinner's bare buttocks. In 2014, a sophomore transcribed the notes. They play. Hieronymus Bosch, patient deposition-filer of Hell.
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RE: https://sciences.social/@NODE801/117202571261839984
Frances Julia "Snow" Wedgewood's article "The Natural and the Supernatural" (1871) for the Spectator comparing Lucretius and Darwin's theory using portions of this translation can be found here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038698000&seq=558&view=2up
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RE: https://sciences.social/@NODE801/117202571261839984
Frances Julia "Snow" Wedgewood's article "The Natural and the Supernatural" (1871) for the Spectator comparing Lucretius and Darwin's theory using portions of this translation can be found here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038698000&seq=558&view=2up
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RE: https://sciences.social/@NODE801/117202571261839984
Frances Julia "Snow" Wedgewood's article "The Natural and the Supernatural" (1871) for the Spectator comparing Lucretius and Darwin's theory using portions of this translation can be found here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038698000&seq=558&view=2up
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RE: https://sciences.social/@NODE801/117202571261839984
Frances Julia "Snow" Wedgewood's article "The Natural and the Supernatural" (1871) for the Spectator comparing Lucretius and Darwin's theory using portions of this translation can be found here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038698000&seq=558&view=2up
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RE: https://sciences.social/@NODE801/117202571261839984
Frances Julia "Snow" Wedgewood's article "The Natural and the Supernatural" (1871) for the Spectator comparing Lucretius and Darwin's theory using portions of this translation can be found here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015038698000&seq=558&view=2up
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"A 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, after the 19th-century “luxury souvenir” became the first-ever contraceptive sheath to be added to the Rijksmuseum’s art collection."
#histsci #histmed #histsex (#histnat?) #collections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/rijksmuseum-condom-exhibition -
"A 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, after the 19th-century “luxury souvenir” became the first-ever contraceptive sheath to be added to the Rijksmuseum’s art collection."
#histsci #histmed #histsex (#histnat?) #collections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/rijksmuseum-condom-exhibition -
"A 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, after the 19th-century “luxury souvenir” became the first-ever contraceptive sheath to be added to the Rijksmuseum’s art collection."
#histsci #histmed #histsex (#histnat?) #collections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/rijksmuseum-condom-exhibition -
"A 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, after the 19th-century “luxury souvenir” became the first-ever contraceptive sheath to be added to the Rijksmuseum’s art collection."
#histsci #histmed #histsex (#histnat?) #collections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/rijksmuseum-condom-exhibition -
"A 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, after the 19th-century “luxury souvenir” became the first-ever contraceptive sheath to be added to the Rijksmuseum’s art collection."
#histsci #histmed #histsex (#histnat?) #collections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/rijksmuseum-condom-exhibition -
A remarkable write-up by Neal Stephenson (yes, that one!) on the physics of whip cracking and crucially, who it was discovered. Enjoy!
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/kdk-part-4-carrieres-amazing-experiment
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Cet appareil est un pyromètre de Wedgwood, inventé dans les années 1780 par un industriel potier anglais – par ailleurs grand-père de Charles et Emma Darwin – afin de mesurer la température dans ses fours. À l’époque n’existaient que les thermomètres à mercure de Fahrenheit, limités à 356 °C. Wedgwood eut l’idée d’utiliser une propriété de l’argile, qui se contracte en chauffant. Le principe : on place un petit cylindre d’argile calibré dans l’environnement dont on veut mesurer la température, puis on l’insère entre les règles en laiton graduées (qui ne sont pas parallèles) jusqu’où son nouveau diamètre l’emmène pour lire la température. L’échelle est spécifique, en degrés Wedgwood, démarrant à 0 °W ≈ 581 °C et s’incrémentant par pas de 72 °C – l’appareil dépasse donc allègrement les 17 000 °C !
Cet exemplaire fait partie du cabinet de physique et chimie de l’université de Catane. Il a été commandé en 1820 par Carmelo Maravigna, professeur de chimie, à Nicolas Constant Pixii, célèbre fabricant d’instruments parisien, par l’entremise de Jean‑André‑Henri Lucas, du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle. Il aurait servi à mesurer les températures de coulées de lave de l’Etna.
Avec le temps néanmoins, il s’est avéré que les mesures du pyromètre de Wedgwood étaient très imprécises. Le développement de nouveaux instruments l’a rapidement condamné aux oubliettes de l’histoire des sciences…
#histnat #histsci #histoire #science #mesure #température #thermomètre #MNHN #Etna
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Savanturières : aussi une série de vidéos courtes sur les pionnières de l'#histoirenaturelle !
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1CLz7J7QOxg
via https://mnhn.hosting.augure.com/Augure_MnhnRP/default.ashx?
#mnhn #histnat #WomeninSTEAM #womeninSTEM #histsci -
New Interfaces article!! (link below) Insightful article on the history of Indian supercomputing by Cornell U. STS scholar Andra Sonia Petrutiu "Disrupting Flattening Universal Ambitions: The Case of Supercomputing in India."
#histsci #supercomputing #india #highperformancecomputing #software #technology #tech #science #sociology #anthropology #mediastudies #computerscience #ai #artificialintelligence #datascience #history
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
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New post!
https://keiran-rowell.github.io/sulfur/2026-01-18-fire-and-brimstone/
Sulfur exacts a brutal toll for its extraction, but guides the electricity that drives all life.
🟡 🌋 🔥 🦠
#sulfur #science #chemistry #volcanoes #abiogenesis #mafia #oil #biochemistry #SciComm #HistSci
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Oh ! Dépêchez-vous, ce week-end est votre dernière chance de visiter la Galerie de Paléontologie et d'Anatomie comparée qui ferme pour travaux jusqu'au printemps 2027 !
#histsci #mnhn
https://www.mnhn.fr/fr/communique-de-presse/la-galerie-de-paleontologie-et-d-anatomie-comparee-du-museum-ferme-pour -
It’s #BlackHistoryMonth so it’s a good time to celebrate the extraordinary mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; 1918 – 2020). One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (& its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital mechanics & played a pivotal role 🧵1/
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #NASA #MastoArt #KatherineJohnson #mathematician #aeronauticalEngineer #physics #space -
Publiés en #AccèsOuvert #OpenAccess, les actes du XXIIIe colloque de la commission inter-IREM Epistémologie et Histoire des Mathématiques, qui s'est tenu du 23 au 25 mai 2019 à Poitiers, sur le thème "Géométries d’hier à demain : pratiques, méthodes, enseignement", sont disponibles à cette adresse :
http://irem.univ-poitiers.fr/colloque2019/actes.html
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The need to make a living means I do not published much, but last year I was able to reflect, with Kerstin von der Krone, on the _History of Knowledge_ blog (https://historyofknowledge.net) at the end of my 10+ years at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC.
"Blogging Histories of Knowledge in Washington, DC," in _Geschichte und Gesellschaft_, https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.13109/gege.2021.47.1.163
#HistKnow #HistSci #ScholarlyComm #SciComm #AcademicCommunication #HistoryBlogs #AcademicBlogs #AcademicEditing #histodons
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The need to make a living means I do not published much, but last year I was able to reflect, with Kerstin von der Krone, on the _History of Knowledge_ blog (https://historyofknowledge.net) at the end of my 10+ years at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC.
"Blogging Histories of Knowledge in Washington, DC," in _Geschichte und Gesellschaft_, https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.13109/gege.2021.47.1.163
#HistKnow #HistSci #ScholarlyComm #SciComm #AcademicCommunication #HistoryBlogs #AcademicBlogs #AcademicEditing #histodons
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The need to make a living means I do not published much, but last year I was able to reflect, with Kerstin von der Krone, on the _History of Knowledge_ blog (https://historyofknowledge.net) at the end of my 10+ years at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC.
"Blogging Histories of Knowledge in Washington, DC," in _Geschichte und Gesellschaft_, https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.13109/gege.2021.47.1.163
#HistKnow #HistSci #ScholarlyComm #SciComm #AcademicCommunication #HistoryBlogs #AcademicBlogs #AcademicEditing #histodons
