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“Science books have grown up.” Is an INSANE thing to say in a book that examines science communication as a broad field throughout history. We can pretend that we exist in a “grown up” phrase all we want, but we are just another dot on the timeline that will continue to extend forward. “I’m grown up,” says the 7 yr old in her mother’s heels, says the 12 yr old sipping coffee, the 20 yr old with rent
— Nov 28, 2024 05:23PM
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Grace
is on page 240 of 272
“…it’s transformation of the popular science market has enabled far more effective books to published” typo!!! Missing “be” following the “to”
— Nov 28, 2024 07:30PM
Grace
is on page 232 of 272
“Richard Feynman observed that it was so accurate it was like predicting the distance from New York to Los Angeles to the width of a human hair.” Brother. Brother. Vocabulary terms. Omg.
— Nov 28, 2024 05:42PM
Grace
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“[Rosalind Franklin and DNA] was published in 1975 — though [it] has been criticized by Franklin’s sister for overstating the level of sexism she faced.” Hey. Hey Clegg. Why would you include this detail hm? What’s your point. What’s the angle you’re trying to emphasize with that detail on that page. Did you have something to say perhaps.
— Nov 28, 2024 04:16PM
Grace
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The stance on DDT— hot take. I won’t say it’s a wholly bad take per se, I do see the logic, but it sure is.. interesting. In the Silent Spring discussion, the author skews dangerously pro-DDT/anti-DDT broadband ban.
— Nov 28, 2024 04:04PM
Grace
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Darwin to Caroline Kennard, 1881: “I certainly think that women though generally superior to men [in] moral qualities are inferior intellectually, and there seems to me to be a great difficulty from the laws of inheritance, (if I understand those laws rightly) in their becoming intellectual equals of man.’” Do you ever just want to go feral
— Nov 28, 2024 03:45PM
Grace
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“Wegner’s (literally) groundbreaking title setting out the concept of continental drift” okay this is funny. This one really got me. I love me a good geology pun.
— Nov 28, 2024 03:41PM
Grace
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“natural, and, under the circumstances, inevitable. For a power which influences, so mightily the intellectual and material action of the age, cannot fail to arrest attention and challenge imagination..” extracted from John Tyndall’s 1867 lectures. Note the focus on making the material “interesting” to audiences. 2/2
— Nov 28, 2024 03:31PM
Grace
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“In the following pages I have tried to render the science of Acoustics interesting to all intelligent persons, including those who do not possess any special scientific culture.… There is a growing desire for scientific culture throughout the civilized world. The feeling is…” 1/2
— Nov 28, 2024 03:30PM
Grace
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Mmmmm this is losing me a bit. I’m hanging on for you, 24 books in 2024 challenge. I’m doing this for you.
— Nov 13, 2024 03:03PM
