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[S]cientific perception—especially when elevated to the level of systematic observation, often in carefully designed setups—is disciplined i...

Against this view it is urged that we underestimate the automatic powers of the normal subject. We are told that many of the acts which we u...

If a little learning is a dangerous thing, jeopardy from that source is today universal. The millions have fragmentary knowledge of societar...

"Popcock!" said Gertrude Stein. With this unusually lucid and brief remark the writer who has grown famous for her "a rose ...

I wonder what folks would think of teaching this Stephen Colbert clip (September 14, 2011) alongside Leviathan and the Air-Pump or Laborato...

A few links on HPS, publicness, public knowledge, etc., etc.: A charming rant by Dominic Berry on " HPS on't telly ": It loo...

A link this morning: Alice Bell on why calling for "scientific literacy" doesn't make sense . This is apropos of her observa...

I don't mean to turn this blog into an events calendar, but I'm pretty excited about this: "Proof, Truth, Hands, and Mind...

Ezra Pound, conflating epistemology with ethics: Bad art is inaccurate art. It is art that makes false reports. If a scientist falsifies a r...

The Literary Organ, MLA 2011 (January 6-9, 2011; Los Angeles) A Special Session (subject to MLA approval) “I have given no small attention t...

Some quick notes from today. I went to a very interesting seminar on science studies and modernism this morning. The seminar was run by Anne...

HG: I still can't get over the weirdness of "extreme" as an adjective applied to mammals . Whoever came up with that was some ...

School's back! My summer of fellowship was completely awesome, don't get me wrong. I got loads done. But I still get that autumnal e...

John Oliver of The Daily Show summarizes Bruno Latour's Science in Action : The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Human...

If Marconi says something about ultra-short waves it MEANS something. Its meaning can only be properly estimated by someone who KNOWS.     ...

Giles Slade's Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America offers a history of planned obsolescence. Made to Break is a histo...

Mark Twain thought it would be a really cool idea to have a newspaper called The Back Number , composed entirely of old newspaper articles. ...

I had my students this past semester read a chapter from Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's 2007 study Objectivity . My students had a ...

It's not what it used to be. (TM) Steven Shapin, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (Chicago: U of Chicago ...

I recently read Michèle Le Doeuff's The Sex of Knowing (in translation). At its heart is a critique of difference feminism based on a h...