The challenge from skullsinthestars is up - pick up a very old, classic science paper and write a blog post about it. Put it in a proper historical, theoretical, methodological and philosophical context. You can always go back to blogging about the latest research or latest creationist idiocy tomorrow.
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As Blake put it. It may even go into the Basic Concepts list afterwards, just tell John Wilkins.
How old? Any guidelines?
The original challenge says "before WWII", but I think it all depends on the discipline, whenever the key classic papers were written.
Coturnix: Thanks for mentioning the "challenge"! You're absolutely right: I said "before WWII", but it's clearly discipline dependent. My personal goal was to seek out research that formed the foundations of a field, before the important concepts were taken for granted.
What a great idea. Wish I had time to work up an entry. I'll be cheering from the sidelines.
Oh, man, what a very neat idea! There is a paper (actually, an original paper and then one that was more like a commentary on the first from the same author) that I have always loved. Perfect for this challenge. And I can't believe it, but I found it available in PDF--I think. If I could find a copy of my thesis I could be sure. But I'm not quite sure where that is these days....
Is there a date for this? I work better with deadlines :)
Mary: I just posted a semi-official 'end of May' deadline for entries, just to keep people motivated! (I should have planned this at the beginning, but I wasn't necessarily expecting anyone to do the challenge...)
@gg: gotcha! I'm gonna do it. I found the paper I was remembering. Has lines like this:
I had forgotten how much I loved this paper; this post is practically coming out of my head fully formed. Thanks so much for the inspiration.
Update: the deadline is end of May.
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There's a very sad note on a classic neural crest paper by Raven and Kloos, from the mid-1940s, indicating that Kloos had been shot and killed by the Gestapo. I make the point with the grad students that it's important to maintain perspective, even when things seem really rough.
I feel compelled to write a post on a favorite classic avian neurodevelopment paper from the 1930s, however...might have to be "neural connections week" on my blog.