Sheril KirshenbaumI rarely post about Musk & #Twitter, but I am currently writing a dissertation related to the spread of misinformation.
This is not true. ⬇️
Author of Trying Biology (2013) and Science & Religion, A Very Short Introduction (2022) (He/him)
Adam Shapiro
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Just a reminder that textbook publishers are not here to save you from ideological curriculum laws:
https://contingentmagazine.org/2022/02/13/why-wasnt-this-in-my-textbook/
Joanne FreemanGreetings, all!
Tomorrow on my live webcast, "History Matters:"
Schools as Cultural Battlegrounds
With a new semester starting -- AND with Texas's & Florida's new educational bans & strictures -- let's dive in.
American education has ALWAYS been political -- as far back as the dawn of the republic. So history has a lot to say on this front.
Join us for more.
Friday 10AM ET
NCHEteach.org/conversations
Skulls in the StarsGetting closer to the release date of my book on the history of invisibility, out in April! Expect me to be reminding folks about it more often and asking you to pre-order! https://www.amazon.com/Invisibility-History-Science-How-Seen/dp/0300250428
Dr. Katie L. Burke"Rank Injustice: What Your Favorite Music Says About Inequality in Science" by @[email protected] is a top-10 blog post for 2022!
Many thanks to all our authors!
Find the whole list here:
https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/from-the-staff/2022s-most-popular-blog-posts
Erin BartramOver here on my personal account, some straight talk about donations to @contingent_mag: 98% of our budget this year came from monthly givers, and our monthly giving rate has (understandably) dropped. We can’t publish quite as much now. If you aren’t able to give monthly but want to support, consider a one-time donation. https://donorbox.org/contingent-magazine
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internetarchiveToday we welcome works of art from 1927 into the public domain. Check out the movies, music, periodicals & books that are now free to remix & reuse in our latest blog post:
🔗https://blog.archive.org/2023/01/01/welcoming-1927-to-the-public-domain/
🔗https://blog.archive.org/2023/01/01/welcoming-1927-to-the-public-domain/
Welcoming 1927 to the Public Domain - Internet Archive Blogs
This year we are welcoming works from 1927 into the public domain in the United States, including books, periodicals, sheet music, and movies. Big events of 1927 include the first transatlantic phone call from New York to London, the formation of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the first successful long distance demonstration […]
LeslieHowsam@sharporg I very much enjoyed Jonathan Topham’s *Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the #Victorian Age. He’s been working on it for years, a wonderful example of using #bookhistory to address a complex issue in #Historiography . In this case #historyofscience and 19thc culture. New methods for #historyofreading too.
Robert McNeesYvonne Brill passed away in 2013.
The NYT ran an obituary that was roundly criticized as sexist. It mentioned her beef stroganoff, following her husband, and raising her children before acknowledging her work as a rocket scientist.
Look at these edits:
http://www.newsdiffs.org/diff/192021/192137/www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/science/space/yvonne-brill-rocket-scientist-dies-at-88.html
