And now for something completely new to this blog, though not to me. The first in a series of articles about debates about scientific progress in the two hundred years…
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“Why I left academia” stories have flooded the academic press and internet (see below), along with a cottage industry facilitating such moves. Most are told by graduate students, junior faculty…
Read moreDiplomats and the Rise of “Foodism” in the 1960s and 1970s
For some years, I’ve thought about posting an intermittent series of blog posts under the heading “questions and wild speculations.” As long as wild speculation is acknowledged for what it…
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