Science History

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

Health In The Dark Ages: Demonic Possession And Miraculous Healing

Experts from all over the world are gathering at the University to exchange the latest insights on concepts of 'Health and the Healthy Body' in early medieval times, 400-1200 A.D at  a two-day conference, which brings together leading experts in ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2011 - 3:29pm

History, Science And The TMT Boundary

History, Science and the TMT Boundary To the extent that written records show political, religious or other personal bias, it may be truly said that history is bunk.  Or we may say with Henry Ford that history- as a list of dates of political events- is b ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 20 2011 - 2:54pm

Blooming Botany (2)

Now we come to the second part of the series Botany: A Blooming History entitled ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jul 20 2011 - 10:52am

History Mysteries #1- Who Shot The Tomatoes?

History Mysteries #1- Who Shot The Tomatoes? or The Astonishment of a Sailor on Finding Buckshot in His Portion of Tomatoes. Hidden in the details of the Jeannette Expedition one finds a factor in common with the Franklin Expedition: lead poisoning. The J ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 1 2011 - 4:02pm

History Mysteries #2- The Sawdust Coast

History Mysteries #2- The Sawdust Coast According to Peter Freuchen, writing of his travels in Siberia, circa 1936,  the tundra coast near Tiksi in the Lena Delta was fringed with logs and the sea bottom contained "hundreds of thousands of years of s ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 10 2011 - 8:51am

History Mystery #3- Land, Law And Science

History Mystery #3- Land, Law and Science "Words are to the Anthropologist what rolled pebbles are to the Geologist — battered relics of past ages often containing within them indelible records capable of intelligent interpretation..." John Hers ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 14 2011 - 4:27pm

Demons In Science And Philosophy

Thought experiments are mental exercises, or imaginative experiments, which are often not possible to perform with current technology. They appear to be particularly popular in physics and philosophy, but are by no means limited to these two fields. There ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Jul 18 2011 - 8:18pm

Ignaz Venetz- Climate Change Pioneer

Ignaz Venetz- Climate Change Pioneer Climate has always changed- but we have not always known it. Events following 1816- the year without a summer- led to a major controversy in which the scientific consensus on the one hand was countered by dogma on the ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 27 2011 - 9:06am

Ignaz Venetz- Climate Change Pioneer- #2

Ignaz Venetz- Climate Change Pioneer- #2 Ignaz Venetz was, in 1821, awarded a prize of 300 francs for his memoire by the Schweizerische Naturforschende Gesellschaft- the Swiss Natural Science Society.  It is my firm opinion that, accordingly, the date of ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 27 2011 - 9:11am