Stephen Johnston on Early-Modern Chymistry
A quick summary of Stephen Johnston’s recent Brown Bag Lecture at the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Posted by Darin on 01/27 at 05:00 PM
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PACHSmörgåsbord: Conferences
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Call for Proposals: Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium
Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium meeting
19 & 20 May, 2010
Deadline for Proposals: 31 January 2010
Posted by Bonnie on 01/26 at 05:01 PM
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
My kingdom for a teleportation device!
A far-away conference on the 1609 chair of chemistry offers food for thought, and creates a yearning to be on location for the 400-year anniversary.
Posted by Anke on 10/21 at 04:30 PM
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
ACS tales
Nuggets from the American Chemical Society Conference. Read it, you’ll like it!
Posted by Anke on 08/26 at 03:41 PM
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Summertime, ACS and ice cream
A post on the connections between chemistry and summer.
Posted by Anke on 08/12 at 12:53 PM
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Thursday, August 06, 2009
Final thoughts from the ICHST: Rambling on about the Antikythera Mechanism
This is a summary of Alexander Jones’s closing plenary lecture on the Antikythera Mechanism. Conference exhaustion and the need for coffee prevented me from staying around for the last two plenaries.
Posted by Darin on 08/06 at 05:19 AM
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Saturday, August 01, 2009
More thoughts from the ICHST: Good talks, PowerPoint, and Bad Questions
How the ICHST is shaping up: we’re past the halfway point now. In addition to pointing out some interesting paper, I reflect on the nature of presentations (especially the use of PowerPoint) and the ideal (myth) of relevant questions.
Posted by Darin on 08/01 at 10:56 PM
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Initial thoughts from the ICHST 2009
Some initial thoughts on the International Congress of History of Science and Technology, a massive conference taking place at the moment in Budapest.
Posted by Darin on 07/29 at 03:14 AM
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Of cans and worms
Insights into the recent CHF conference on the historiography of chemistry.
Posted by Anke on 06/17 at 02:45 PM
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
I could not help but wonder…
Musings about the natire of blogging and the historiography of science (with coffee and chocolate).
Posted by Anke on 05/27 at 09:34 AM
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