Peter Galison
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Enquête aux limites de l’Univers
| Documentaires science 2020 Vidéo 1 h 34 min Tous publics Disponible jusqu'au 30/05/2027 Deux équipes scientifiques tentent de percer les secrets des trous noirs. L’une travaille à la mise au point d’un télescope pour capter la première image d’un trou noir. L’autre, qui fut menée par Stephen Hawking, plonge au cœur de la physique théorique.
Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science - Nature Human Behaviour
Big STEM collaborations, however, do not operate in isolation but are part of an interconnected web of social institutions, relations and values. Part of this involves recognizing that science often comes with complex effects on the world around it, not all of which are immediately obvious — advances in renewable energy technology, for example, are reliant upon metals that are often mined in regions with lax labour and environmental regulations that endanger workers and surrounding communities1.
How Experiments End
9780226279152 "Galison provides excellent histories of three experimental episodes: the measurement of the gyromagnetic ratio of the electron, the discovery of the mu meson, or muon, and the discovery of weak neutral currents. These studies of actual experiments will provide valuable material for both philosophers and historians of science and Galison’s own thoughts on the nature of experiment are extremely important. . . . Galison has given both philosophers and historians much to think about.
How Industry Weaponizes Science to Serve Themselves
Robert Proctor & Peter Galison MIT Press Reader November 10, 2021 AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli We may think of science as our foremost producer of knowledge, but for the past decade, science has also been studied as an important source of ignorance. The historian of science Robert Proctor has coined the term agnotology to refer to the study of ignorance, and much of the ignorance studied in this new area is produced by science. Read Full Article »
How Industry Weaponizes Science and Sows Doubt to Serve Their Agenda
BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. We may think of science as our foremost producer of knowledge, but for the past decade, science has also been studied as an important source of ignorance. The historian of science Robert Proctor has coined the term agnotology to refer to the study of ignorance, and much of the ignorance studied in this new area is produced by science.
When Birds Migrated to the Moon
From the ancient Greeks to the 17th century, a terrestrial phenomenon baffled scientists: Where did the birds go in winter? Unlike the stars, the moon is close enough for people to envision traveling there. My favorite method of space travel was devised by French writer Cyrano de Bergerac. In his satirical work “A Voyage to the Moon,” published in 1657, he used impeccable logic.
The Classification of Humankind, and the Birth of Population Science
Only after new methods emerged for assessing statistics did the previously invisible entity now called ‘population’ become a target for objective investigation. BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. It was Thomas Malthus — the British cleric and political economist, often railed against, rarely actually read — who cast a long shadow over thinking about our future.
10 mind-bending books on the nature of time
Despite being immersed in it and inexorably propelled by it, we don't really understand time all that well. Fortunately, we can rely on the minds of our smartest writers to give us a good understanding of the one thing we all can't get enough of. This list of books on time ranges from the complicated to the straightforward, the historical to the speculative, the scientific to the literary, and more.
The Harvard Crimson
Advertisement None By Peter L. Galison June 7, 2007 Allston is the hope and promise of Harvard’s long-term future. Getting it right will shape the character of the University for generations. But we could easily get it wrong. Here’s one entirely imaginable dystopic future that Harvard could build, all too easily, by laying down entirely rational paving stones one-by-one.
How Do You Photograph a Black Hole?
On April 10, 2019, at 9:07 a.m. Eastern time, the first-ever picture of a black hole burst onto oversized screens in six cities around the world, from Taipei and Tokyo, through Santiago, Mexico, and Washington, DC, to Brussels and Madrid. It had taken years for the global Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration—then more than 200 scientists—along with a planet-size instrument, to produce that image.
Objectivity
By Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific atlases—a story of how lofty epistemic ideals fuse with workaday practices. Distributed for Zone Books Overview Author(s) Praise Summary The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific atlases—a story of how lofty epistemic ideals fuse with workaday practices.
King Corn Full Film | Video | Independent Lens | PBS
expiredpublic14124http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/king-corn-full-film/2365906548cove14124S9 Ep20: King CornWatch this film until August 1s.Two recent college graduates plant a single acre of the nation's most powerful crop--corn--and set out to follow it on its journey from a seed to the dinner plate.2008-04-15 08:00:00expired2017-08-02 02:59:59August 2, 2017disabledhidefalse14896SEED: The Untold Story - Botanical Explorer Joe - ClipSEED: The Untold Story premieres on PBS’s...
So, what does Stephen Hawking's The Grand Design tell us about God?
Religious conflict rolls across the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia. A tiny, loony sect threatens to burn the Quran, and the world's leaders respond. You might not think there could possibly be any room in the headlines for a debate about the divine stirred up by a mere physics book. Think again.
Film as a force | Harvard Gazette
On Sunday, millions of viewers will tune in to the Academy Awards for a chance to see their favorite stars in designer dresses and to learn who will take home the movie industry’s highest honor, gold-plated, 13-and-a-half-inch statuettes fondly known as Oscars. Three anxious documentarians in the audience who hope to hear their names called have deep roots in a longstanding Harvard program.
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