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Greetings internet! I’m excited to be joining the ScienceBlog team. […]

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Curing with Machines: Medical Electricity in 18th-C. Paris

Before Volta and Tesla, before Hertz and Edison and Westinghouse, […]

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Morality and Chimeras in a Posthuman World

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to bring over […]

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Exorcising the Demons of our Past: Why Eugenics Wasn’t What You Think It Was,...

BOOK REVIEW: Comfort, Nathaniel. The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. *I’m going to be bringing a few […]

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Responding to some comments on Dissertation Embargoes

My recent piece on embargoing one’s dissertation, even more than I expected now that the things here get simultaneously posted on scienceblog’s main page, got some decent traffic. As always, […]

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The Republic of Nature: American History is Environmental History

BOOK REVIEW: Fiege, Mark. Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States. Seattle:   University of Washington Press, 2012. It’s a strange day when a book arrives in […]

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Letting History and Evolution and Math Teach Us How to Vote

Sometimes the only consolation I can drag myself towards–lying awake at night as I wonder at the financial and vocational vacuum that is a doctorate in the history of science—is […]

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Why I Placed a Digital Embargo on My Dissertation, and Maybe You Should Too

By Ry Marcattilio-McCracken Rarely will you find me on the side of the fence that argues against open-access. Who, after all, could argue against the free dissemination of knowledge without […]

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