sport of sacred spherical cowsNew vid essay from Dr. Abdurrahman just dropped:
"The boring kind of degeneracy."
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The Inquisitive BiologistToday it is 69 years ago the world lost #GeorgeMurrayLevick.This British Antarctic explorer made observations on penguins that were considered too shocking for the world. They are recounted in A Polar Affair, an unusual and colourful book of #PolarExploration, #Penguins, and perversion.
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149 years ago today, #HMSChallenger returned to Spithead from a scientific expedition that birthed the discipline of #Oceanography, but what did they find? Read more about this in Full Fathom 5000, an engaging book that focuses on the many animals the expedition found in the deep sea.
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Book review – Full Fathom 5000: The Expedition of HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea
Focusing on the many animals it found in the deep sea, Full Fathom 5000 provides a novel perspective on the legendary Challenger expedition, all the while treating you to engaging vignettes on scie…
Valeriy M., PhD, MBA, CQF318 years ago today #CarlLinnaeus was born. The scholarly #biography The Man Who Organized Nature provides a full immersion in his life, revealing the polymath behind his reputation as the father of taxonomy.
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Stan CareyVery interesting podcast about universals as an idea in American linguistics in the mid-20th century (27 mins.) @hiphilangsci
https://hiphilangsci.net/2024/12/01/podcast-episode-43/
#language #linguistics #podcast #science #ScienceHistory #LinguisticUniversals #NoamChomsky #JosephGreenberg
Sharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦The Electron Microscope’s Canadian Link
Physicist Eli Burton and his University of Toronto team developed one of North America’s first electron microscopes in 1938, revolutionizing our ability to see the microscopic world. 🔬
🇨🇦 #Canada #ScienceHistory #Microscopy
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/eli-franklin-burton
Industry Documents LibraryToday we wrap up the 2025 #Opioid #Archive virtual national symposium! Join us at 12-2:30pm EDT with a panel on Histories and Stories of the Opioid Epidemic with David Herzberg, Domenic Esposito and Alexis Pleus. Registration info here: https://oida-resources.jhu.edu/oida-national-symposium-2025/ #History #HistMed #ScienceHistory #Art #Advocacy
The Electron Microscope’s Canadian Link
Physicist Eli Burton and his University of Toronto team developed one of North America’s first electron microscopes in 1938, revolutionizing our ability to see the microscopic world. 🔬
🇨🇦 #Canada #ScienceHistory #Microscopy
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/eli-franklin-burton
166 years ago today, the world lost #AlexanderVonHumboldt. This admirably concise biography offers a factual and nuanced picture of his life and work, and critically interrogates previous portrayals.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/02/11/book-review-alexander-von-humboldt-a-concise-biography/
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