Category Archives: Odds and Ends
The Renaissance Mathematicus Roadshow
Next week the Renaissance Mathematicus will be undertaking a mini-tour of Berlin to hold two semi-popular public lectures, in German. Actually it’s the same lecture on the history of the calendar and the calendar reform held twice. On Tuesday I … Continue reading
Filed under Autobiographical, Odds and Ends
A change in terminology
A public service announcement: Effective as of today The Hordes of Pharyngula will henceforth be known as The Gnu Model Army: Defenders of the Faith of Scientific Puritanism (F.D. Sci-Pu) H/T The ever erudite and effervescently witty Ian … Continue reading
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Only nine blogging days to GS #27
I have been neglecting my duties as newly appointed junior Giants’ Shoulders slave. There remain just NINE shopping days till Christmas days for all of you historians of science to formulate, file and finish your masterpieces on “fools, failures and … Continue reading
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Not only the press!
The Plato/Pythagoras paper, the press reports on which I criticised yesterday was written by Dr. John Bernard Kennedy of Manchester University who according to his own description has pretty impressive credentials: I studied mathematics and computers at Princeton. My doctorate … Continue reading
Filed under History of science, Odds and Ends
Don’t you just love journalists?
Heterodoxology an essential blog for anyone interested in the occult sciences in the Early Modern Period has an interesting first report on a paper from the Manchester University researcher J. B. Kennedy claiming to have found a Pythagorean sub-text in … Continue reading
Filed under Myths of Science, Odds and Ends
Justifying my existence.
Jennifer Rohn at Mind the Gap has a post that using a modern example illustrates the raison d’être for a large number of the things that I write about and post here. The little guys also matter. H/t to the … Continue reading
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Thank God for experts
During a roundtable discussion on German television (ARD) one of the so-called football experts in answer to the question why the top South American teams have been performing so much better than their European opposite numbers suggested that it was … Continue reading
Filed under Odds and Ends
Take a trip to London
The regular readers of Strange Maps and Time to Eat the Dogs, and if you are not already you should be, and those who enjoy my occasional posts on cartography or related subjects should all take a trip to London … Continue reading
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Giant’s Shoulders #24
Jost a Mon has shouldered a wonderful collection of delights from the history of science for the 24th edition of Giant’s Shoulders
Filed under Odds and Ends
A Life on the Ocean Waves.
The latest edition of The Giant’s Shoulders has emerged above the waves at Deep-Sea News under the special edition title of Leviathan’s Shoulders. Swim over and dive in.
Filed under History of science, Odds and Ends, Uncategorized
