Fri, March 19, 2010

History of Science Around the Web

 

The ‘Roots’ of Climate-Gate

Posted 3 months ago

Remains of the famous Oseberg ship burial, which Bonde and Stylegar were able to date in the 1990s.

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Today, a lot goes into counting tree rings, as we can tell from the back and forth over the statistics and ‘tricks’ of…

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Iron Curtain Protected Against Species Invasions

Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago

The American comb jelly was accidentally introduced into the Black Sea, to disastrous effect.

As we found in the tale last month of Eugene Schieffelin and the introduction of the American Starling to New York’s Central Park,…

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The Last Alchemist: Science in Political Times

Posted 4 months, 1 week ago

Brian Cottoir is the sort of technical guy who doesn’t have a website, but who has tapped into a hip artistic scene drawn to the unusual aesthetics of the historical science that he studies. Cotnoir is a practicing alchemist—by his own admission, one of the last of his kind.

After an hour…

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