Science History
- The Legacy of Science
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Since the dawn of time, man has interacted with the environment. Observation without interaction is and always was a logical impossibility. Questions ensue; answers have not always been forthcoming, although they do emerge through incremental shifts and t ...
Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Sep 28 2014 - 7:14am
- Hippocrates Didn't Write The Oath, So Why Is He The Father Of Medicine?
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Not the one we have fixed in our imaginations. Peter Paul Rubens, 1638 By Helen King, The Open University Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine, enemy of superstition, pioneer of rationality and fount of eternal wisdom. Statues and drawings sho ...
Article - The Conversation - Oct 3 2014 - 8:00am
- How Photography (And Phrenology) Helped Make Abraham Lincoln President
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Abraham Lincoln. Wikipedia By Joanna Cohen, Queen Mary University of London ...
Article - The Conversation - Nov 3 2014 - 10:37am
- St. William And The Greatest Zombie Lie Ever Told
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Instead of dying out, Anti-Semitic myths have withstood the test of time. By Asa Simon Mittman, California State University, Chico ...
Article - The Conversation - Nov 13 2014 - 11:03am
- Relevance In Decline? Italian Natural History Museums On The Verge Of Collapse
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Due to a loss of scientific relevance, which has led to scarcity of personnel and thus decreasing government funding, Italian natural history museums are on the verge of collapse. A new paper in Zookeys proposes that the existing museums associate and co ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2014 - 1:33pm
- The Most Influential Scientist You Never Heard Of
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Alexander von Humboldt. Self portrait By Richard Gunderman, Indiana University-Purdue University ...
Article - The Conversation - Dec 10 2014 - 12:30pm
- "Let Us Adore And Drink!" A Brief History Of Wine And Religion
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The Greeks hailed Dionysus (also known as Bacchus) as their patron god of wine, said to provide ecstasy and spiritual vision to his devotees. Pictured is Caravaggio's 1595 masterpiece Bacchus. Wikimedia By Robert Fuller, Bradley University ...
Article - The Conversation - Dec 25 2014 - 8:30am
- Andreas Vesalius: 500th Birthday Of The Man Who Revolutionized Our Knowledge Of The Human Body
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Drawn directly from the flesh Public Domain Review / Flickr, CC BY-SA By Richard Gunderman, Indiana University-Purdue University ...
Article - The Conversation - Dec 31 2014 - 1:44pm
- Charles Darwin And A Koch Brother Everyone In Science Academia Can Like
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Everyone has heard of Louis Pasteur- most people know that pasteurization is a process of sterilizing food to make it safer. (1) And today is Darwin Day, when Charles Darwin is fêted for his work on evolution and natural selection. Fewer people have heard ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 13 2015 - 1:18am
- How Cavendish Measured Gravity On A Table Top
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Cavendish torsion balance and Cavendish Signature image via Wikimedia Commons. Composite image by Lalena Lancaster ...
Article - Inside Science - Feb 9 2015 - 9:59am
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