This week's #NewBooks at the library: An eclectic trio!
- Just in time for my review of The Wake of HMS Challenger, I found a second-hand copy of At Sea with the Scientifics from the University of Hawaii Press, which collects Joseph Matkin's letters home.
- Look what you made me do, Jordan Sorcery! I tracked down a very affordable copy of Jack Yeovil's Krokodil Tears in his Dark Future series.
- One more book from my employer's January sale: #Chimpanzees and Human Evolution from Belknap Press.

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For the next review, I will revisit the HMS Challenger expedition. Coming soon to https://inquisitivebiologist.com

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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

This week's #NewBooks at the library: three more books from my employer's January sale
- The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Paul D. Brinkman from the University of Chicago Press;
- Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins, a wonderfully illustrated book by John Gurche from Yale University Press;
- Rethinking Human Evolution edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, a volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from @themitpress.

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🧑‍🔬 THE BIRTH OF A GENIUS

March 14, 1879 — In a quiet German town in Ulm, a baby boy is born who will forever change our understanding of the universe. Little Albert Einstein lies in his crib, unaware that his mind will one day unlock the secrets of space, time, and the very fabric of reality itself.

This post is 100% AI generated.

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Michael Faraday: Scientist and Nonconformist (1996)

http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/Faraday/

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Beyond the bomb. ⚛️

The Manhattan Project normalized federal oversight of scientific research.

Classified work, centralized funding, and national security priorities reshaped academic science.

That institutional model carried forward into the Cold War and beyond.

The atomic age was political as well as technological.

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https://brewminate.com/manhattan-project-federal-control-of-science/