journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37542785/why-barbie-and-not-oppenheimer-a-film-review-of-barbie-directed-by-greta-gerwig-warner-bros-pictures-2023
#21
REVIEW
Robert Luke Naylor
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
August 3, 2023: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37433703/garland-e-allen-iii-1936-2023-endeavour-editorial-board-member-historian-of-biology-activist-and-mentor
#22
EDITORIAL
Donald L Opitz
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
July 9, 2023: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37369607/telegraphic-code-for-fingerprints-how-justice-was-denied-to-the-innovator-who-helped-ameliorate-the-criminal-justice-system
#23
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jasjeet Kaur, Gurvinder S Sodhi
In the last decade of the nineteenth century, an Indian officer of the Bengal Police, sub-inspector Hem Chandra Bose (1867-1949) invented the telegraphic code system for fingerprints and published it in 1916. Sir Charles Stockley Collins of Scotland Yard, who is worldwide recognized as the originator of fingerprint telegraphic technique, published his findings in 1921-five years after Bose's publication. Likewise Bose devised the single digit fingerprint classification system three years prior to Harry Battley, also of the Scotland Yard...
June 25, 2023: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37217359/escaping-nazi-germany-jewish-refugee-dentists-and-their-post-emigration-careers-in-the-united-states-of-america
#24
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lena Norrman, Dominik Gross
This study is the first to examine the collective of dental lecturers and scientists who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the United States of America. We pay special attention to the socio-demographic characteristics, emigration journeys, and further professional development of these individuals in the country of immigration. The paper is based on primary sources from various German, Austrian, and United States archives and a systematic evaluation of the secondary literature on the persons concerned. We identified a total of eighteen male emigrants...
May 20, 2023: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37169651/spatio-temporal-patterns-in-the-history-of-colonial-botanical-exploration-in-india
#25
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rajasri Ray, Madhupreeta Muralidhar
A study of Indian botany during the colonial period provides us with an interdisciplinary sphere covering science, politics, sociology, economics, and other associated domains. The presentation of this rich legacy to general readers often restricts itself to the descriptive accounts of explorers with little analysis of the intermingling of socio-political dynamics, landscape, and geography. We attempt to revisit the colonial plant exploration history through spatio-temporal analyses to understand how explorers with divergent interests traversed the country in different periods and directions...
May 9, 2023: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36577222/francisco-s%C3%A3-nchez-and-the-quaestio-de-certitudine-mathematicarum-a-sceptical-approach
#26
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Helbert E Velilla-Jiménez
In this paper I analyse Francisco Sánchez's role in the Quaestio de certitudine mathematicarum debate. Despite some studies on the philosophical and medical scepticism of Sánchez and, his extant letter with Christopher Clavius, a participant in the debate, we have few analyses about Sánchez's position regarding the certainty of mathematics. Sánchez discussed some problems that Clavius analysed in his Prolegomena to propose an empirical basis for mathematics through a questioning of its certainty...
December 26, 2022: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36527932/editorial-endeavour-at-80
#27
EDITORIAL
(no author information available yet)
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
December 15, 2022: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36521301/rhythmic-history-towards-a-new-research-agenda-for-the-history-of-health-and-medicine
#28
REVIEW
Kristin D Hussey
Rhythm characterizes life on Earth. Daily physiological rhythms of eating and fasting, sleeping and waking, moving and resting, are common to almost all life forms which evolved under the solar light-dark cycle. Despite their ubiquity, historians of health and medicine have yet to grapple with the lived experiences of these daily rhythms in the past. This paper presents a potential new research agenda in 'rhythmic history' that understands rhythmicity as something which lies between biology and culture. Thinking with rhythms offers exciting opportunities to unite previously disparate historical studies of daily rhythms like eating and sleeping and opens up a new way to view the enmeshed connections between body and environment...
December 2022: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36194916/fake-cells-and-the-aura-of-life-a-philosophical-diagnostic-of-synthetic-life
#29
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Daphne Broeks, Yogi Hendlin, Hub Zwart
Synthetic biology is often seen as the engineering turn in biology. Philosophically speaking, entities created by synthetic biology, from synthetic cells to xenobots, challenge the ontological divide between the organic and inorganic, as well as between the natural and the artificial. Entities such as synthetic cells can be seen as hybrid or transitory objects, or neo-things. However, what has remained philosophically underexplored so far is the impact these hybrid neo-things will have on (our phenomenological experience of) the living world...
October 1, 2022: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36115311/the-foundations-of-israel-s-ongoing-love-affair-with-science
#30
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nurit Kirsh
During the last two decades, the history of science in Israel has attracted much scholarly attention. Historians of science, science and technology studies (STS) scholars, and Middle East/Israel studies experts have focused on specific scientific disciplines or periods, analyzing the uniqueness of science and technology in Israel. This article explores what characterized Israel's scientific activity precisely at the time of the state's birth, and examine how the perception of science as key to Israel's survival was constructed and reinforced in that formative phase...
September 14, 2022: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36113251/the-energy-glitch-speculative-histories-and-quantum-counterfactuals
#31
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Scott W Schwartz
Energy (in all its conceptualizations and connotations) is a glitch, a bug, an error. Energy is presented here as a roadblock in efforts to articulate and formulate a coherent physical model of the universe, as well as an impediment to achieving just and equitable social relations. Energy broke physics and broke society. This article traces conundrums and uncertainties that prevail in physics today, from the irreconcilability of quantum dynamics and gravitational spacetime to the unsatisfactory postulation of dark energy, and the profusion of probabilistic reasoning...
September 13, 2022: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36058025/public-history-personal-pseudohistory-and-virthstm
#32
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Edward Guimont, Megan Baumhammer
In summer 2021, the Virtual History of Science, Technology, and Medicine group hosted two online panels on pseudoscience topics including Flat Earth, Hollow Earth, geohistory, alternate evolution, and forgeries. The panels discussed the roles of such theories in the history of science, as well as the public's understanding of both history and science.
September 1, 2022: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36049347/engineering-the-public-use-reinforced-concrete-buildings-of-ankara-during-the-early-republic-of-turkey-1923-1938
#33
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gokhan Tunc, Tanfer Emin Tunc
Today, reinforced concrete (RC) is the most commonly used construction material in Turkey. It first emerged in Europe in the 1850s and was adopted in a number of Late Ottoman period structures, mostly in İstanbul, during the first two decades of the twentieth century. During the Early Turkish Republic (1923-1938), RC appeared in public-use buildings in Ankara, such as the Ethnographic Museum, which was the first in the new capital to feature RC elements, leading the way for many more structures to come. Despite the fact that Turkish and foreign civil engineers faced a series of economic, social, cultural, political, educational and technical challenges during the transition from masonry and timber construction to RC, its adoption was facilitated by the fact that as a European building technology, it became symbolically important to the new republic...
August 29, 2022: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35717339/microbes-before-microbiology-christian-gottfried-ehrenberg-and-berlin-s-infusoria
#34
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mathias Grote
Naturalist Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg pioneered research on living and fossil infusoria (including protists and bacteria) since the 1830s by collecting samples from all over the world, thus describing numerous microbes and discussing their effects for the planet and for humankind. This article introduces Ehrenberg as a natural historian of microbes and situates his work in the nineteenth century life sciences with respect to debates about cell theory, evolution, and concepts of disease. I argue that in spite of occurring before these major conceptual innovations of the life sciences, Ehrenberg's work on the diversity of microbes found in earth or air is more exciting than historiography has made it appear so far, especially in light of today's ecological microbiology...
June 15, 2022: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35667903/introducing-the-microbiome-interdisciplinary-perspectives
#35
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Davina Höll, Leonie N Bossert
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
June 3, 2022: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35635927/-love-is-a-microbe-too-microbiome-dialectics
#36
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hub Zwart
Whereas the Human Genome Project was an anthropocentric research endeavour, microbiome research entails a much more interactive and symbiotic view of human existence, seeing human beings as holobionts, a term coined by Lynn Margulis to emphasise the interconnectedness and multiplicity of organisms. In this paper, building on previous authors, a dialectical perspective on microbiome research will be adopted, striving to supersede the ontological divide between self and other, humans and microbes, and to incorporate the microbiome as a crucial dimension of human existence, not only corporally, but also in terms of mood and cognition...
May 27, 2022: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35606244/dis-ease-and-epidemics-shock-and-modern-era-perceptions-of-contagion
#37
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ian Morley
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
May 20, 2022: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35568617/corrigendum-to-the-moon-quivered-like-a-snake-a-medieval-chronicler-lunar-explosions-and-a-puzzle-for-modern-interpretation-endeavour-44-4-2020-100750
#38
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35606243/a-film-review-of-black-holes-the-edge-of-all-we-know-directed-by-peter-galison-collapsar-sandbox-films-2020
#39
REVIEW
Grace Field, Emilie Skulberg
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
April 22, 2022: Endeavour
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35469668/what-faces-reveal-hugh-diamond-s-photographic-representations-of-mental-illness
#40
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sara Wetzler
Hugh Diamond was a psychiatrist, antiquarian, and photographer, who was the first person to take photographs of female asylum patients. These photographs, using the newly invented technology of the camera, were intended to be objective and accurate visual indicators of mental illness. Considering Diamond's overlapping interests, his project must be understood within the larger cultural and historical context and the tensions inherent in medical photography and portraiture. Despite the goal of capturing "objective, scientific data," the photographs instead relied on traditional iconography dating back to the Greeks and Middle Ages and can be analyzed from an art historical perspective...
April 22, 2022: Endeavour
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