John Levi Martin [pictured here], sociologist at the University of Chicago offers his “Reflections on Sociology as a science“: I am often asked to give my opinion as to whether and how sociology should be a science, provoking the following reflections on science as an enterprise. Basically, I have to say that science has let me […]
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He gave them the finger(s): A “Martyr to X-ray”
The March 25, 1925 issue of the New York Evening Post features this article about Dr. Frederick H. Baetjer, who gave his finger — actually eight of his fingers — to science: (Thanks to investigator Earle Spamer for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: A few years later someone requested his autograph, prompting this letter from the good, […]
‘The night Dublin dissected an elephant’
Mary Mulvihill did a five-minute talk about ‘The night Dublin dissected an elephant’. It (the night Dublin dissected an elephant — not Mulvihill’s talk!) was was a big, smelly moment in the history of science. Here’s video of her talk: Allen Mullin did the dissection, way back when, in 1681. He described it in a […]
How to Begin a Scientific Report: Headless, Topless
Here’s one way to begin a scientific report. Grab the reader’s attention: “Real faces, real emotions: perceiving facial expressions in naturalistic contexts of voices, bodies and scenes,” Beatrice de Gelder [pictured here] and Jan Van den Stock, in A.J. Calder, G. Rhodes, J.V. Haxby & M.H. Johnson (Eds.), The handbook of face perception. Oxford: Oxford […]