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Historian and philosopher of science, especially virology. New Zealand-American. Lover of antiquarian books, and verge pocket watches. Author of Cancer Virus Hunters (JHU Press, 2022) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RRkkWaYAAAAJ

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Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End Americaโ€™s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.

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01.08.2025 17:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Amazing frequency of lightning strikes in this July storm in South Dakota

28.07.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Massive blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, an ancient wonder, hauled up from the Mediterranean French and Egyptian researchers are making a "digital twin" of the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt after lifting its ancient submerged blocks out of the Mediterranean Sea.

Archaeologists recovered 22 blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, an ancient wonder. Using 3D scans, researchers aim to digitally reconstruct it, shedding light on its design and collapse. The blocks were found in the harbor off Alexandria.
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Steven Shapin ยท Through the Trapdoor: Roger Penroseโ€™s Puzzles Stephen Hawking may have been a genius, but โ€˜Roger Penroseโ€™s insights seem to stem from some superhuman life-form...

Meeting and talking with Roger Penrose in 1993 was one of the highlights of my undergraduate experience. Here is an excellent review of a recent biography:https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n11/steven-shapin/through-the-trapdoor

25.06.2025 14:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Books From now until July 10th, use code H4JUL25 for 40% off all books and free shipping on $75+ orders. From summer reads like "Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness" to titles on American history, presidents, and more, Hopkins Press has something for every reader.

Johns Hopkins University Press is having a book sale including on Cancer Virus Hunters. "From now until July 10th, use code H4JUL25 for 40% off all books and free shipping on $75+ orders." @JHUPress
www.press.jhu.edu/books

24.06.2025 13:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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APS Awards 2025 Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy of Science, largest book prize in Philosophy, to Dr. Alyssa Ney | American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society has awarded the 2025 Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy to Dr. Alyssa Ney for her book The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics (Oxford Univ...

Looking for a good book on the philosophy of quantum mechanics?
www.amphilsoc.org/news/aps-awa...

13.06.2025 13:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Spring 2025 End-of-Semester Address from President Nariman Farvardin
YouTube video by Stevens Institute of Technology Spring 2025 End-of-Semester Address from President Nariman Farvardin

youtu.be/aP3iZ28OA8U

12.06.2025 15:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Stevens Institute of Technology Commencement 2025: Prof Gregory Morgan as faculty marshall and Prof Carlos Alomar, music professor #stevens @FollowStevens @StevensNewsroom

09.06.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science ๐Ÿงช
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

08.06.2025 21:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1235    ๐Ÿ” 524    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 30
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China is catching the US on R&D spending

30.05.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) - Daily Nous Alasdair MacIntyre, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and Duke University, well-known for his work in moral and political philosophy, has died. Professor MacIntyre wrote...

The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has died
dailynous.com/2025/05/22/a...

22.05.2025 22:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines - a timely news explainer/reminder by @heidiledford.bsky.social

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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

08.04.2025 11:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 57    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
YouTube video by Boston University Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science

The philospher of science and Einstein scholar John Stachel has died at the age of 97
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBu4...

13.05.2025 23:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The view from Stevens Institute of Technology today

13.05.2025 02:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"Cancer Virus Hunters" by Gregory J. Morgan

Prof Larry Moran has a no nonsense blog on biological matters called Sandwalk. He is a biochemistry professor at University of Toronto. Here is his positive take on my book:
sandwalk.blogspot.com/2024/06/canc...

08.05.2025 17:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Global war against a common enemy: a paradigm for unifying against climate changeโ€“The path to a just sustainable future avoids claims of historical climate injustice Claims are heard that because the developed world has created the global warming problem through their invention and profiting from emissions-producinโ€ฆ

A few years ago one of our most accomplished alumni, Len Miller, a PhD with a long career on Wall street specializing in energy and finance, approached me wanting to write a joint paper on motivating global climate change policy. Here is the result:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

07.04.2025 17:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Scientific American and the Anti-Woke Bros โ€” John Horgan (The Science Writer) HOBOKEN, APRIL 3, 2025.   How can you practice science journalism under a regime hostile to science and journalism? I talked about this dilemma March 26 with Laura Helmuth, former editor-in-chief...

Former SciAmerican columnist John Horgan stirs the pot:
johnhorgan.org/cross-check/...

04.04.2025 03:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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OBITUARY: Elisabeth Vrba, the musketeer of macroevolution โ€“ Pikaia Curious, brilliant, and fiercely independentโ€”Elisabeth Vrba dedicated her life to understanding the great forces shaping the history of life. She passed away at 82, leaving behind a legacy that will i...

A great loss for evolutionary biology: Elizabeth Vrba passes away:
pikaia.eu/obituary-eli...

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Our town has foxes

19.02.2025 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

DeepSeek does a good job of describing my book:"Cancer Virus Hunters (2022) provides a comprehensive history of tumor virology. It highlights the groundbreaking work of scientists who discovered links between viruses and cancers, paving the way for advances in cancer research and molecular biology."

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The Trouble with Elon I didnโ€™t set out to become an enemy of the worldโ€™s richest man, but I seem to have managed it all the same.

samharris.substack.com/p/the-troubl...

17.01.2025 14:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Using lab-grown human mini-brains, scientists find links between head trauma, herpes, and Alzheimerโ€™s Research published Tuesday is the first to connect the dots between a common herpes virus, head injury, and Alzheimer's.

Mechanical herpesvirus reactivation from latency triggers aberrant inflammatory responses similar to those occurring in Alzheimerโ€™s. Viruses continue to amaze and terrify.

www.statnews.com/2025/01/07/a...

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In Memoriam: Larry Sklar | U-M LSA Philosophy Emeritus Faculty | 1938-2024

RIP Larry Sklar, philosopher of physics
lsa.umich.edu/philosophy/n...

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Hint. Somewhere in Scotland

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Where am I?

07.01.2025 20:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science | Skeptical Inquirer Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face todayโ€”a threat unlike any weโ€™ve witnesse ...

skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...

01.01.2025 04:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I see her as a philosopher of mind more than a philosopher of science even though those two categories overlap.

28.12.2024 16:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You should list a few

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5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know Philosophy has not given some of these exceptional women the attention and admiration they deserve. Itโ€™s time to remedy that!

5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
www.thecollector.com/women-philos...
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Ketsup and Tomato Sauce fighting it out in New Zealand supermarkets

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