Science History

A Brief History Of The English Language Part 3- Orthography

grammar-school boy of all time: William Shakespeare. Continued in Part 4 ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 19 2009 - 3:41am

Nuclear Weapons, the Cold War, and the Art of the Status Quo

dramatic is proliferation. Once the Cold War ended all the technology, weaponry, material and most ...

Blog Post - Sina Kashefipour - Sep 9 2009 - 10:03pm

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

the Earth is one of many planets that orbit the sun, and the sun is one of many stars, and that all of ...

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

History Of Medicine In Stalin's USSR Concentration Camps

of mines, lumber complexes, and factories, all staffed by prisoners, that spanned the empty expanses ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2008 - 5:14pm

Classic Papers In Biology

environmental grain, and how all this relates to the maintenance of biodiversity. Even ~50 years later, ...

Article - John Dennehy - Jan 18 2009 - 2:50pm

Science For Criminals- 19th Century Knowledge Helped Change Death Row

Penitentiary on Columbus on July 31, 1885,  the first execution under a new Ohio law that called for all ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2009 - 9:57am

Giordano Bruno, Dominican, Philosopher, Astronomer, Mathematician (1548 – February 17, 1600)

Friday, 17 February 1600, one of those processions which were all too familiar to Rome, was seen take to ...

Article - Camillo Di Cicco - Mar 14 2015 - 6:25am

Ibn Al-Haytham- The Mad Egyptian Polymath Who Proved Aristotle Wrong

conclude that there is no mysterious "form" that all objects emit; rather there are sources of ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2011 - 4:45pm

Other Suns, Other Colors

in their own lifetimes. They all worked in the same small second floor room at the Harvard College ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Aug 21 2011 - 9:19pm

Galileo’s Own Wine Jug?

Germans of that region, good Lutherans all, to thus get in a double blow at the cardinal on both religious ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Aug 24 2013 - 10:04am