Some time back I wrote about the engraver and instrument maker Augustine Ryther (fl. 1576–1593), who stood at the beginning of a dynasty of instrument makers in the Worshipful Company of Groce…| The Renaissance Mathematicus
The technology is extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV). And one of the most important points I want to leave you with is that the origins of EUV are not found in Silicon Valley startups or corporate boardrooms but in California’s national laboratories, where government-funded science made the impossible possible.| California Curated
Author Philip Ball on the enduring appeal of alchemy, supposedly a relic of a more superstitious, pre-scientific age.| Yale University Press
Attacking research at universities and national laboratories could lead to the collapse of American science and the loss of future GDP.| Galileo Unbound
This essay is reproduced here as it appeared in the print edition of the original Science for the People magazine. These web-formatted archives are preserved complete with typographical errors and available for reference and educational and activist use. Scanned PDFs of the back issues can be browsed by headline at the website for the 2014 SftP conference held at UMass-Amherst. For more information or to support the project, email sftp.publishing@gmail.com| Science for the People Archives
In this fascinating piece of historical detective work, Robert Shedinger draws on Darwin’s letters, private notebooks, and an unfinished manuscript to piece together a puzzle and reveal an embarrassing truth: Darwin never finished his sequel to The Origin of Species because in the end he could not deliver the empirical evidence he promised would validate his theory. Source| Books – Discovery Institute
Charles Darwin fathered not just a scientific theory, but a toxic social ideology that fueled racist colonial policies in Africa. In this sobering book, African scholar Olufemi Oluniyi traces the insidious impact of Darwinian ideas on British imperial policies in Northern Nigeria. Drawing on official documents, public statements, and well-attested historical events, Oluniyi documents how concepts such as evolutionary racism Read More ›Source| Books – Discovery Institute
To hear some tell it, Adolf Hitler was a Christian creationist who rejected Darwinian evolution. Award-winning historian Richard Weikart shows otherwise. According to Weikart, Darwinian evolution crucially influenced Hitler and the Nazis, and the Nazis zealously propagated evolutionary theory during the Third Reich. Source| Books – Discovery Institute
Science and faith are often presented as mutually exclusive, when in reality the scientific evidence provides powerful evidence that life and the universe were designed. The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos features more than 40 entries authored by over 30 qualified experts. Source| Books – Discovery Institute
University professor Neil Thomas was a committed Darwinist and agnostic — until an investigation of evolutionary theory led him to a startling conclusion: “I had been conned!” As he studied the work of Darwin’s defenders, he found himself encountering tactics eerily similar to the methods of political brainwashing he had studied as a scholar. Thomas felt impelled to write a Read More ›Source| Books – Discovery Institute
About the Book In 2000, biologist Jonathan Wells took the science world by storm with Icons of Evolution, a book showing how biology textbooks routinely promote Darwinism using bogus evidence — icons of evolution like Ernst Haeckel’s faked embryo drawings and peppered moths glued to tree trunks. Critics of the book complained that Wells had merely gathered up a handful Read More ›Source| Books – Discovery Institute
About the Book In this provocative history of contemporary debates over evolution, veteran journalist Tom Bethell depicts Darwin’s theory as a nineteenth-century idea past its prime, propped up by logical fallacies, bogus claims, and empirical evidence that is all but disintegrating under an onslaught of new scientific discoveries. Bethell presents a concise yet wide-ranging tour of the flash points of Read More ›Source| Books – Discovery Institute
Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines tells the story of Michael Behe’s transformation from mild-mannered biochemist to orthodoxy-challenging revolutionary through the publication of his path-breaking book challenging Darwinian evolution, Darwin’s Black Box. It also explores the rise of the broader intelligent design movement in biology, the attempt to silence supporters of intelligent design in federal court, and the eventual Read More ›Source| Books – Discovery Institute
An excerpt from Philip Ball's new book, Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science| Yale University Press
It’s no secret that the early twentieth century was a great time to make progress in fundamental physics. On one level, it was an era when huge swaths of our understanding of the world were being rewritten, with relativity and quantum mechanics just being explored. It was a time when a bright student could guide […]| 4 gravitons
A classic critique shows how creationists’ calls for “equal time” in classrooms blurred the line between legitimate scientific debate and intellectual imposture.| The MIT Press Reader
There is a classicist named Ammon Hillman (a.k.a. David Hillman) who wrote a decent dissertation on ancient pharmacology and then went on to make absurd claims about the Gospels and early Christianity that verge into pedophilia and an obsession with genitals. And yes, your intuition is working here: all his weird theories about this are […]| Richard Carrier Blogs
In his book, The History of the Barometer (The Johns Hopkins Press, 1964), W. E. Knowles Middleton whilst discussing the contact between Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637) and René Descarte…| The Renaissance Mathematicus
A literal banana has published a method for volunteer investigators of suspicious science, this month in the Journal of Lexical Crime. From the abstract: Fact checking of scientific claims by lay volunteers, also known as recreational hostile fact checking or community-based science policing, is a growing hobby. A method for the evaluation of scientific claims … Continue reading "The Extended Sniff Test"| Carcinisation
Instead of accepting Galileo’s theory of heliocentrism, Romans punished him for it. What if things had been different?| Fancy Comma, LLC
Today we look at the life and work of the physicist and mathematician, Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), who is the second member of what I have termed the Galilei-Castelli school of mathema…| The Renaissance Mathematicus
In California’s southeastern desert, the Salton Sea stretches across a wide, shimmering basin, a lake where there shouldn’t be one. At about 340 square miles, it’s the state’s largest lake. But it wasn’t created by natural forces. It was the result of a major engineering failure. I’ve long been fascinated with the place: its contradictions, … Continue reading The Salton Sea Was California’s Strangest Catastrophe→| California Curated
The Meselson-Stahl experiment didn’t just prove a point. It told a story about how knowledge is built: carefully, creatively, and with a precision that leaves no room for doubt. It became a model f…| California Curated
Not only are the cuts to science in the United States extreme, but the specific cuts are often profoundly wasteful| Of Particular Significance
During the paleobiological revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, the status of paleontology as an evolutionary discipline was attempted to be established by a number of paleontologists. From 16th to 19th October 1980, the Field Museum of Natural History held the Macroevolution Conference, a historic event that challenged the four-decade-long dominance of the Modern Synthesis. […]| Letters from Gondwana.
One lesson we can learn from a fresh look at our historical sources is that leaders of modern sciences have been hopelessly polarized in their views on the empirical evidence for ‘occult’ phenomena. In my last post, I addressed this by noting deep disagreements among founding figures of modern psychology and psychiatry regarding the marvels ... Read more The post Clash of the Titans: William James vs. Alfred Russel Wallace first appeared on Forbidden Histories.| Forbidden Histories
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The history of the incandescent electric light bulb goes way back to 1800, when Alessandro Volta invented an early form of battery called the Voltaic pile. This device produced continuous direct current, and it was soon discovered that when passed through conductive materials the current was capable of producing heat and, under certain circumstances, light. […]| carnotcycle
This Earth Month, Yale University Press authors reflect on the biggest threat to climate change mitigation while proposing new ways forward. Experts in ecology, weather patterns, climate technology, and even... READ MORE| Yale University Press
[PROLOGUE – EVERYBODY WANTS A ROCK][PART I – THERMOSTAT][PART II – MOTIVATION][PART III – PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES][PART IV – LEARNING][PART V – DEPRESSION AND OTHER DIAGNOSES][PART V…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Every once in a while I come across an off-hand comment that immediately makes me need to know more. Recently, I’ve been researching the history of light polarizers, and turned to a paper1 by…| Skulls in the Stars
We who have nothing to “wind string around” are lost in the wilderness. But those who deny this need are “burning our playhouse down.” If you put quotes around certain words it sounds more like a m…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
On 10 February 1825, Gideon Algernon Mantell’s paper “Notice on the Iguanodon, a newly discovered fossil reptile from the sandstone of Tilgate Forest” was read by Davies Gilbert MP at a meeting of the Royal Society of London. In the paper, Mantell gives a brief description of the characteristics of the sandstones of Tilgate […]| Letters from Gondwana.
In 2025, a quantum centenary, I'll tackle quantum questions. To start: the (in)famous double-slit experiment, examined with very great care.| Of Particular Significance
This essay is reproduced here as it appeared in the print edition of the original Science for the People magazine. These web-formatted archives are preserved complete with typographical errors and available for reference and educational and activist use. Scanned PDFs of the back issues can be browsed by headline at the website for the 2014 SftP conference held at UMass-Amherst. For more information or to support the project, email sftp.publishing@gmail.com| Science for the People Archives
Hubble and Einsten are often credited, but the real heroes of the Big Bang revolution are the Russian Alexander Friedmann and Belgian priest Georges Lemaître. The Big Bang Revolutionaries amends the…| Discovery Institute
Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus found by Mary Anning. From: W D Conybeare, 1824 Mary Anning was born in Lyme Regis on May 21, 1799. Her father was a carpenter and an amateur fossil collector who died wh…| Letters from Gondwana.
At the turn of the 20th century, the Swiss were plagued by strange, interlinked medical conditions, which existed...| London Review of Books
