Science History

The Road 2 Unification- From Galileo to GUT....

What really comes to your mind when you read the title?? i am not asking this in the Shiv Khera-You can Win style... instead this question decides your fitness level to comprehend the blog to follow.. a) Unification of Indo-Pak- Don't Read!!! i guess ...

Blog Post - Akshit Kumar - Feb 12 2011 - 4:27am

Fontenelle’s Conversations (1686): Popular Science Writing At Its Very Best

Popular science writing today can be hit and miss. It can be truly awful; such as Brian Greene’s immensely dull Elegant Universe, Stephen Jay Gould’s idiosyncratically waffley Rocks of Ages, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb's misguided and rushed Black Swan ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Feb 17 2011 - 11:44am

George Best- An Elizabethan Climate Scientist

George Best- An Elizabethan Climate Scientist whosoeuer could finde out in what proportion the Angle of the Sunne beames heateth, and what encrease the Sunnes continuance doeth adde thereunto, it might expresly be set downe, what force of heat and cold is ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 27 2011 - 6:19pm

All At Sea With The Vikings

All At Sea With The Vikings The Vikings had an expression- hafvilla- which indicates a state of being at sea and having no sense of direction.  There are two modern English phrases that cover this situation: 'all at sea', and 'without a clu ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 28 2011 - 4:06pm

The Only Science Citation in the Bible

Not particularly earth-shattering, this, but mildly bloggable nonetheless! People wrote the bible, we all know that. But for the most part, we really don't know who. Many books have their origins in traditional verses, others the work of individuals, ...

Blog Post - Oliver Knevitt - Mar 2 2011 - 2:57pm

A Brief History Of Climate Science

A Brief History Of Climate Science "One of the lesser-known branches of climatology is historical climatology, the study of past climates from historical records of instrumental observations and weather descriptions,..." Vicky Slonosky ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 11 2011 - 10:19pm

In The Field With James Clerk Maxwell

Only a moment ago, young  James Clerk Maxwell asked Mrs. Murdoch to fetch his parents. Now all three are standing in the kitchen doorway, but he is watching the reflection that dances above the stove, across the ceiling. When he notices the adults, he misc ...

Article - Monte Davis - Apr 13 2011 - 1:19pm

Plumbing To Paleontology- Famed Citizen Scientist Fossil Hunter Harley Garbani Dies At 88

Not many plumbers become known worldwide for significant fossil discoveries but self-taught  paleontologist and archaeologist Harley Garbani did just that, finding skulls of the youngest-known Tyrannosaurus rex and the youngest-known Triceratops in a disti ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 24 2011 - 2:47am

Geniuses Of Britain- The First Five

It's common practice among learned people that, the more educated the company, the more obscure the lists of people they will invent any time there is a question about history.   Science may be universally quantifiable but history of science is quite ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 16 2011 - 4:12pm

Science History: A Look At General Electric's Early Guest Book

What do Ivan Pavlov,  Guglielmo Marconi and Thomas Edison all have in common?  Not much, you might think- but after the creation of General Electric’s first Global Research Laboratory in the barn behind Chief Engineer Charles Steinmetz’s house in Schenecta ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2012 - 8:17am