Deringer’s first book, Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age (Harvard University Press, 2018) was selected as the winner of the 2019 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize from the…
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Questions are swirling over a mysterious nuclear accident in northern Russia on August 8. Seven people, including five nuclear scientists, died in an explosion, which…
By Janet Burns
In 2010, a pair of researchers published a controversial economics paper. It was cited by UK politicians to justify austerity measures that sparked economic and employment crises, and…
Prof. David Kaiser, co-authored with Patrick McCray, published an article in Science marking the 50th anniversaries of Woodstock and the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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Kate Brown, MIT historian of science, has traveled to Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia to research the health and death toll from the Chernobyl accident. She’s interviewed by @BBC_Future in this informative…
Protecting children: the American turn from polio to cancer vaccines
Robin Wolfe Scheffler
CMAJ July 02, 2019 191 (26) E739-E741; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.181630
From 1964 through 1978, the United States poured billions…
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“Albert Michelson was a Polish immigrant who grew up in the hard-scrabble atmosphere of the California gold rush. He relied on an appeal to then-President Ulysses Grant…
5 Questions for Robin Wolfe Scheffler, author of “A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine”
May 16, 2019
By Carrie Adams
In his…