Robert Richards and I recently spoke about his new collection of wonderfully engaging and provocative essays on Darwin, Darwinians, and much else. You can find our conversation about it here. Continue reading Was Hitler a Darwinian?: An Interview
Rob Mitchell and I recently spoke about his wonderful new book, an exceptionally inspiring study in the history and literature of science that traces experimental vitalism through a wide range of Romantic textual worlds from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. You can find our conversation about it here. Continue reading Experimental Life: An Interview
Jamie Cohen-Cole and I recently spoke about his wonderful new book on the emergence of a discourse of creativity, interdisciplinarity, and the “open mind” in the context of Cold War American politics, education, and society. It’s a beautifully written and carefully argued study of the history of science, and you can find our conversation about it here. Continue reading The Open Mind: An Interview
Richard Yeo and I recently had a chance to talk about his fascinating new study of notebooks, note-keeping, memory, and information management in early modern England. It’s a must-read for anyone interested in book history or early modern science, and you can find our conversation about it here. Continue reading Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science: An Interview
Angela Creager generously made time to talk with me recently about her impeccably researched and elegantly written new history of radioisotopes as military and civilian objects, for experimentation and therapeutic use, from the 1930s through the late twentieth century. It’s a fabulous book, and you can find our conversation about it here. Continue reading Life Atomic: An Interview
Today & tomorrow on The Recipes Project: a two-part experiment in translating Qing Manchu medical recipes into steamy melodrama. Pt. 1 is here, and Pt. 2 (where it gets all steamy all up in there) is here! For further installments in this ongoing project, see the Publications page of this site. Continue reading Translating Qing Recipes: An Experiment
Last month, I had the pleasure of giving a talk at Berkeley comparing the art of the DJ and that of the historian, and considering an example of what might result from putting the comparison into practice for the history of Qing science. The Berkeley CSTMS have posted a video of the talk online, and you can find it at the link below. http://cstms.berkeley.edu/current-events/last-night-an-historian-saved-my-life-science-sampling-and-the-art-of-the-dj/ Continue reading Last Night An Historian Saved My Life: A Recent Talk at Berkeley
It was a pleasure to talk with Conevery Bolton Valencius about her new book on the making and forgetting of knowledge surrounding a series of earthquakes that rocked the Mississippi Valley in the 19th century. It’s a great story about the history of early American science, with particularly awesome footnotes, and you can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes: An Interview
I recently spoke with Eugene Raikhel and William Garriott about their new edited volume full of great essays that each look at the history and ethnography of addiction from a fresh and interesting perspective. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Addiction Trajectories: An Interview
Bill Clancey’s great new book explores the nature of exploration itself, in the context of a rich ethnographic study of the scientists and engineers of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) missions. It was a pleasure to talk with him, and you can find our conversation here. Continue reading Working on Mars: An Interview
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