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Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Trust the Science: An Atom of Insight About What "Trusting Science" Means

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  The first thing to say about my lovely graphic is that John Dalton  proposed his theory of atomism in 1803, not 1903.   The rest of the da...
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Thursday, March 13, 2025

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts

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For most of the last 20 years, I have attended the weekly discussions of the Evolution Roundtable at Franklin and Marshall College a few blo...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

A Review of An Immense World by Ed Yong

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In the fall of 2024 I read An Immense World   with the Evolution Round Table at Franklin and Marshall College, a group I have been part of f...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Catching Up with a Great Science Writer and Bicyclist I Haven't Seen For More Than 15 Years.

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  Katharine Sanderson and I on the  north side of the Millennium Bridge In 2004 Katharine Sanderson flew from the offices of "Chemistry...
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Thursday, December 8, 2022

Life's Edge:The Search for What it Means to be Alive by Carl Zimmer, Book 43 of 2022

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  The book for this semester at the Evolution Round Table at Franklin and Marshall College is Life's Edge: The Search for What it Means ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman Book 30 of 2022

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  At the beginning of his third lecture/chapter in the book QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter , Richard Feynman says: Most of the...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Book 2 of 2022: Marie Curie--a graphic novel biography in middle-school-level French

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(In past years I have written an essay about the books I read in the previous year.  As my list of books gets longer and my memory shorter, ...
Monday, January 14, 2019

War Between Science and Religion? The Real Enemy was Catholic Immigrants

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Hating immigrants is nothing new in America The anti-immigrant tradition in America is old and deep in America.  People accepted now as...