Writing tagged: ‘history of science’
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LRB letter: ‘The reaction economy’
On Charles Darwin’s use of photography in his book about human and animal emotions.
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Cambridge Darwin pilgrimage
A trip to see a treasure-trove of Darwinalia.
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Book review: ‘The Enlightenment’ by Ritchie Robertson
The pursuit of happiness, 1680–1790.
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17 June 2019
Jupiter’s moons.
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14 May 2019
A surprise encounter with a howler monkey’s backside.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Backyard’ by James T Costa
How small experiments led to a big theory.
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Book review: ‘Dispelling the Darkness’ by John van Wyhe
Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.
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Newsletter No. 12: ‘Unspeakable things beneath the shrubs’
Mark E Smith • Alan Bennett • Carl Linnaeus • Ronald Blythe • human evolution • flu epidemics • Great Exhibition of the North • Charles Darwin • insects • introverts • Virginia Woolf • John Tyndall • and more…
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Newsletter No. 7: ‘Hacked and hurt by time’
John Tyndall • Galápagos cormorants • why English is so odd • Thoreau & Darwin • anthropological discoveries • mass-extinction hyperbole • W.G. Sebald • yellow rattle • Inigo Thomas • Mars exploration • and more…
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Newsletter No. 5: ‘Incongruous owl’
Dawn chorus • Simon Armitage • the invention of the telescope • huge, sprawling collaborations • Withnail & I • book smells • re-assembling Darwin’s research notes • converting walks into words • Daniel Dennett • writing letters • humanist politics • dentistry with stone tools • analysing penguin poo • Melissa Harrison • Robert…
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Book review: ‘Man of Iron’ by Julian Glover
Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain.
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Book review: ‘The Enlightenment’ by John Robertson
A very short introduction.