One October night in 1537, an army surgeon ran out of the boiling oil he was supposed to pour into gunshot wounds. He improvised with egg yolk, rose oil, and turpentine. Ambroise Paré, surgeon to four French kings, spent fifty years being gentle. https://oddlet.com/p/f1y #HistSci #history #SciComm
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For #spacetober_challenge day 11 prompt crew or cargo spacecraft, my portrait of mathematician, aeronautical engineer, philanthropist and Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008). 👩🏻🔬🎢🔭🧪🐡 #histsci Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead
サイエンス・フィクション 空想科学小説 ショートストーリー 短編小説 The Face At The Window & Other Stories Rated 4.5 stars on Amazon. A science fiction collection. 9 stories, from the beginning of human history to the end of the world. www.amazon.co.jp/Face-Window-... #booksky #sciencefiction #readersky #books
reading james burnham tell leon trotsky, who he was formerly friends with, that he needs to touch grass and read actual science/math instead of dialectics and i am weeping for our present reactionaries and how fall they've fallen www.marxists.org/history/etol...
Jack said “we should talk” and so we do Wending Circles is a space for Dear Readers to extend a love of music, culture, and art into the larger context of history, science, and geopolitics If your research pushes the bounds or you want to expand your breadth, this is the place for you
I'm thinking my next book should be on the Byzantine Empire. I mean, I mean I have a PhD so I think i'm qualified to write it and I don't think i've heard of anyone else doing any work on it. #envhist #envhum #histsci
Expelled from a Trappist monastery with tuberculosis, he built a cathedral alone for sixty years — pillars cast in oil drums, arches pressed around tires, a dome raised with bicycle-wheel pulleys. Justo Gallego, patron saint of factory rejects. https://oddlet.com/p/z7w #HistSci #history #SciComm
I recently started working on the history of peatland restoration science in Finland, with a focus on forestry-drained #peatlands. Here are some beautiful peatland landscapes from this week's field trip, for y'all. #histsci #envhist #peatlandrestoration #moss
#OTD October 10, 1980 The Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico was dedicated. VLA is an "aperture synthesis" instrument using 27 antennas arranged in a "Y" pattern to gain the resolving power of an antenna 36 km in diameter. #histtech #space
Five new Darwin books: thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2026/10/09/f... #HPS #histsci @princetonupress.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social