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Daniel Kennefick, “No Shadow of Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse that Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Daniel Kennefick
No Shadow of Doubt
The 1919 Eclipse that Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
Princeton University Press, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network January 17, 2020 Daniel Kennefick

Daniel Kennefick talks about resistance to relativity theory in the early twentieth century and the huge challenges that faced British astronomers who wanted to test the theory during the solar eclipse of 1919. Kennefick is an associate professor of physics at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He’s the author of No... Read More
James Schwartz, “The Ethics of Space Exploration” (Springer, 2016)
James Schwartz
The Ethics of Space Exploration

Springer, 2016

New Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network January 16, 2020 John Danaher

The Ethics of Space Exploration (Springer, 2016), edited by James S. J. Schwartz and Tony Milligan, aims to contribute significantly to the understanding of issues of value (including the ultimate value of space-related activities) which repeatedly emerge in interdisciplinary discussions on space and society. Although a recurring feature of discussions... Read More
Angelina Callahan, “NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Angelina Callahan
NASA in the World
Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network December 27, 2019 Michael F. Robinson

Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project. While the launch of Vanguard 1 in 1958 was part of the Cold War “Space Race,” it also represented something more: a scientific platform for understanding the space environment as well as a test vehicle that would provide data for... Read More
Steve Fuller, “The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Steve Fuller
The Proactionary Imperative
A Foundation for Transhumanism
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

New Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network December 19, 2019 John Danaher

Steve Fuller and Veronika Lipinska‘s The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity’s privilege as a species, our capacity to ‘play God’, the idea that we might treat our genes as a capital investment, eugenics and... Read More
David Spiegelhalter, “The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data” (Basic, 2019)
David Spiegelhalter
The Art of Statistics
How to Learn from Data
Basic Books, 2019

New Books in MathematicsNew Books in MedicineNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network December 13, 2019 Colin Miller and Keith Mankin

Today’s guest is distinguished researcher and statistician, Sir David Spiegelhalter. A fellow of the Royal Society, he is currently Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge. He has dedicated his career, in his words to, “improving the way that quantitative evidence is... Read More
E. Jones-Imhotep and T. Adcock, “Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History” (UBC Press, 2018)
Edward Jones-Imhotep and Tina Adcock
Made Modern
Science and Technology in Canadian History
University of British Columbia Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network December 10, 2019 Carrie Lynn Evans

Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living in modern times. The book I’m looking at today, Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History (University of British Columbia Press, 2018) explores the complex interconnections between... Read More
Julian Havil, “Curves for the Mathematically Curious” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Julian Havil
Curves for the Mathematically Curious
An Anthology of the Unpredictable, Historical, Beautiful, and Romantic
Princeton University Press, 2019

New Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in MathematicsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network November 15, 2019 Jim Stein

Today I talked to Julian Havil about his latest book Curves for the Mathematically Curious: An Anthology of the Unpredictable, Historical, Beautiful, and Romantic (Princeton University Press, 2019). You don’t have to be mathematically curious to appreciate Julian’s talent for weaving mathematics and history together – but mathematical curiosity and... Read More
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