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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...

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

A few links on the Nature /UC Library thing: The boycott . Faculty letter and fact sheet [pdf]. Jen Howard at the Chronicle : "U. of C...

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

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

I go into the Valley Life Sciences Building quite often to use the biology library, which is filled with treasures. Outside the library is a...

Stein reflected the same independence and freedom from convention in her successful and controversial literary career, which ended with her ...

Joseph Marshall Flint to Florence Sabin, two of Gertrude Stein's classmates at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, on The Autobiography of...

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 ...

The American Museum of Natural History has a vast collection of mollusk specimens, both "dry" (shells) and preserved in fluid. We...

"Standards, sense and stability for animal names in science." Who doesn't want that? The International Commission on Zoologica...

Doris Day in Calamity Jane : a woman's touch, indeed. With Miss Moore a word is a word most when it is separated out by science, treated...

Elliott Coues , 1842-1899 Coues was an ornithologist, naturalist, and (according to Wikipedia) army surgeon. I first ran across him in Frede...

I recently read a trio of children's novels set in the Elizabethan period, concerning a boy (orphan, naturally!) who joins Shakespeare...

Variously stolen from Zuska : - The National Women's Law Center's Women's Prerogative gives 2002 data for the percentage of wom...