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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.
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Category: Blogospheric science
Here are some of the thoughts and questions that stayed with me from this session. (Here are my tweets from the session and the session's wiki page.) The session was led by John McKay and Eric Michael Johnson. John posted...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:03 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Astronomy/astrophysics
Here in the Northern Hemisphere (of Earth), today marks the Winter Solstice. Most people have some understanding that this means today is the day of minimum sunlight, or the longest night of the year. Fewer people, I think, have a...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:59 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Thursday, October 8, at 8 pm, the Firebird Ensemble will be performing The Origin Cycle, eight selections from Charles Darwin's work Origin of Species set to music. The performance will be at Stanford University's Campbell Recital Hall, and tickets are...
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Category: Curricular issues
In my philosophy of science class yesterday, we talked about Semmelweis and his efforts to figure out how to cut the rates of childbed fever in Vienna General Hospital in the 1840s. Before we dug into the details, I mentioned...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:11 AM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book review
Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics by Renée Bergland Boston: Beacon Press 2008 What is it like to be a woman scientist? In a society where being a woman is somehow a...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:58 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: History of science
Why would a Luddite celebrate the world's first computer programmer?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:33 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It turns out that the session on electronic scholarship I mentioned didn't really get into the defining characteristics of electronic scholarship, nor how it might differ from "digital media". (Part of this had to do with trying to fit spiels...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:12 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Spinning hypotheses about why female science geniuses of yore might be more likely to be mothers than contemporary women scientists.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:47 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Following up on the earlier discussion here and at Chad's about the "fundamental difference" between chemistry and physics, I wanted to have a look at a historical moment that might provide some insight into the mood along the border between...
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Category: History of science
... Page 3.14 shares the transcript. Go read what we said when Ben Cohen and I shot the cyberbreeze about Karl Popper and the allure he holds for scientists. I can't promise it will leave you ROTFLYAO, but it might...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:16 PM • 4 Comments •
