The deadline for your entries for the first edition of The Giant's Shoulders is the end of July 15th (deadline is midnight EDT). Your posts should cover one of the following:
Classic Papers - your blog post should describe what is in a paper that is considered to be a classical paper, or explanation why you think the paper should be considered classical, or foundational, or monumental, or seminal, or mind-boggling/earth-shaking/paradigm-shifting, or just plain cool. Then place the work in some kind of context: historical, philosophical, theoretical, technological, political, social. Try to persuade the readers that the paper is fascinating and really important. The paper cannot be younger than 10 years (thus, a moving target if this carnival lives a long time).People - analyze the importance of a person in the historical development of science. Most people will cover the famous - Darwin, Newton, Linnaeus, etc. - but it is really cool if you dig out someone more obscure who nonetheless did something really important and we can see the importance from the present perspective.
Concepts - track the development and evolution of an historically important scientific concept and how the attitudes and understanding by the scientists (or lay audience) changed over time due to new discoveries.
The carnival will be posted here on July 16th. Keep track of the news about this carnival at its homepage. And also, please volunteer to host future editions.
As this is the inaugural edition of the carnival, you are free to send multiple entries and it is fine to send in old posts as long as they fit the above description. Send your entries to: Coturnix AT gmail DOT com.
Humanities & Social Science
Comments
I am wondering if we'll get entries from Jennifer, Sage, or Tom....?
Posted by: Coturnix | July 14, 2008 4:02 PM