Brigid O'Connor
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History of Science Seminars: Mar Hicks
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Mar Hicks (Illinois Institute of Technology) Title: “History from the Margins: Trans and Queer Histories of Computing”
History of Science Seminars: Camille Robcis
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Camille Robcis (Columbia University) Title: “Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in France”
History of Science Seminars: Joanna Radin
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Joanna Radin (Yale University) Title: “Rescaling Colonial Life: From the Indigenous to the Alien
History of Science Seminars: Kate Brown
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Kate Brown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Title: “Controversy over Chernobyl Health Consequences: A case of slow science or undone science?”
MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
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THE GREAT C HERNOBYL A CCELERATION KATE BROWN PROFESSOR, MIT In April 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and sent upwards of 50 million curies into the surrounding environment. Working through archives, Brown encountered many contradictory...
MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History
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Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs Joyce Chaplin Professor of Early American History Harvard University With support from the Guggenheim Foundation, Joyce Chaplin is compiling a database of manuscript notes...
Naomi Oreskes Sticks Up for the Scientific Process in New Book
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Interviewed in The Harvard Gazette, History of Science Professor Naomi Oreskes advocates for values-driven science, and science reportage in her new book, "Why Trust Science?"
Prof. Naomi Oreskes Discusses "Why Trust Science?" on "Got Science?" Podcast.
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Ever been asked how we can trust science when politicians and public figures don’t? Check out the latest @GotScienceUCS podcast where author @NaomiOreskes discusses her new book, Why Trust Science.
Old North Speaker Series: LECTURE + COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
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Professor David S. Jones Professor of the Culture of Medicine Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Vaccination Controversies Then and Now: Boston in 1721 and 1901 David Jones, Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at...
Morality and Health
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From the castigation and stigmatization of victims of AIDS to our celebration of diet, exercise and fitness, the moral categorization of health and disease reflects contemporary notions that disease results from moral failure and that health is the...
The Americanization of Narcissism
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American social critics in the 1970s, convinced that their nation was in decline, turned to psychoanalysis for answers and seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. Books indicting Americans as greedy, shallow, and self-indulgent appeared, none...