HoS Micropost: Infectious Disease and IQ
The latest attempt to essentialize and reify IQ, to apply it to disparate populations, and draw strong conclusions.
Posted by Darin on 07/07 at 12:15 AM
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PACHSmörgåsbord: Recent Scholarship
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
HoS Micropost: King Tut, again
Yet another effort to identify King Tut’s cause of death. This time sickle cell disease is the culprit.
Posted by Darin on 07/06 at 11:38 PM
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
Pluto is not Planet X
Published before the recent brouhaha over Pluto’s planetary status, Hoyt’s book on Pluto concentrates on whether or not Lowell deserves credit for predicting Pluto’s discovery.
Posted by Darin on 06/27 at 02:54 PM
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Cold War Science Is Everywhere
The most recent Isis includes a nice selection of articles on Cold War Science. It seems the Cold War is as present today as it was twenty years ago.
Posted by Darin on 06/16 at 08:25 AM
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #11
A belated roundup of history of science articles and blog posts.
Posted by Darin on 05/25 at 11:56 PM
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Sunday, May 09, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #10
This week’s round up of posts is shorter than previous weeks, owning most likely to the vagaries of the academic year and end of semester burdens.
Posted by Darin on 05/09 at 11:57 PM
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Sunday, May 02, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #9
This week’s PACHSmörgåsbord of links. It seems most people are still really busy, so there aren’t too many this week.
Posted by Darin on 05/02 at 11:59 PM
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #8
Back to a regular schedule for the Weekly Smörgåsbord, with links to posts ranging from witchcraft to SETI.
Posted by Darin on 04/25 at 11:57 PM
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #7
After a few weeks off, due to travels and grading, the Weekly Smörgåsbord returns with links to posts ranging from Regiomontanus to the RAND Corporation.
Posted by Darin on 04/18 at 01:01 AM
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
The Weekly Smörgåsbord #6
This week’s roundup of posts includes a few good articles too. There were a number of good Ada Lovelace posts around, but rather than link to them all, I chose a couple that I liked and pointed to the Ada Lovelace site, which collected most of them.
Posted by Darin on 03/28 at 01:00 PM
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