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Secular Damnation: Thomas Jefferson And The Imperative Of Race, Robert Forbes
Secular Damnation: Thomas Jefferson And The Imperative Of Race, Robert Forbes
Robert P Forbes
Race, we are told, is a “social construction.” If this is so, Thomas Jefferson was its principal architect. Jefferson consciously framed his only published book, Notes on the State of Virginia, to check the rising status of Africans and to combat growing critiques of slavery from America’s European friends. Jefferson did this by importing the slaveholder’s sense of slaves as chattel into an Enlightenment world view, providing a metaphysical foundation for prejudice by transmuting the traditional Christian concept of the saved vs. the damned into material and aesthetic terms. Recasting in quasi-scientific language the ancient doctrine of the mark …
The University Of Massachusetts Medical School, A History: Integrating Primary Care And Biomedical Research, Ellen S. More
The University Of Massachusetts Medical School, A History: Integrating Primary Care And Biomedical Research, Ellen S. More
Ellen S. More
The University of Massachusetts Medical School was chartered in 1962 and opened in 1970, one of the cohort of medical schools founded in response to fears of a physician shortage. In Massachusetts, this translated into a call for more opportunities for the state’s students to attend an affordable school where, it was hoped, they would deliver primary care to the people of their home state. Yet, the original dean and faculty, most of whom were recruited from Boston medical schools, were equally devoted to basic research and tertiary care medicine. This book tells the story of the school’s successful efforts …
Early Continental Philosophy Of Science, Babette Babich
Early Continental Philosophy Of Science, Babette Babich
Babette Babich
No abstract provided.
Joseph B. Cooke Safety Lamp, James A. Van Fleet
Joseph B. Cooke Safety Lamp, James A. Van Fleet
James A. Van Fleet
No abstract provided.
A Coal Mining Song, James A. Van Fleet
A Healthy Mania For The Macabre, Stephen Asma
A Healthy Mania For The Macabre, Stephen Asma
Stephen T Asma
The article discusses the fascination with death in art in response to several exhibits which display preserved human bodies, such as the "Body Worlds" traveling exhibit which features human bodies preserved with silicon after an acetone bath, a technique discovered by medical scientist Gunther von Hagens. The author looks at human curiosity with morbidity and artists such as Damien Hirst that use it as the focus of their work. Topics include comments by Richard Harris, creator of "Morbid Curiosity" exhibition in Chicago, Illinois, art historian Paul Koudounaris, and the beauty of death and morbidity according to New York artist and …
Review Of Asbestos And Fire: Technological Tradeoffs And The Body At Risk., Mark Tebeau
Review Of Asbestos And Fire: Technological Tradeoffs And The Body At Risk., Mark Tebeau
Mark Tebeau
Book review of Asbestos and Fire: Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk by Rachel Maines.
George Gilbert Pond And The Preservation Of Priestley House, Kristen A. Yarmey, Anthony Cianchetta
George Gilbert Pond And The Preservation Of Priestley House, Kristen A. Yarmey, Anthony Cianchetta
Kristen A. Yarmey
Display prepared for the Friends of Priestley House. George Gilbert Pond, a longtime and legendary professor of chemistry at Penn State, saved Priestley House from destruction by purchasing it at an auction in 1919. Since then, Penn State chemists have played a role in ensuring its long term preservation. Graphic design by Anthony Cianchetta. Photos courtesy of the Penn State University Archives and the Friends of Priestley House.
Sweating Bullets: Notes About Inventing Powerpoint, Robert Gaskins
Sweating Bullets: Notes About Inventing Powerpoint, Robert Gaskins
Robert Gaskins
PowerPoint was invented to be the first presentation software specifically for Macintosh and Windows personal computers. During its design and development as a Silicon Valley startup it received the first venture capital investment ever made by Apple. PowerPoint 1.0 was shipped in 1987 as a Mac program to make black-and-white overhead presentations. Soon thereafter it became the first significant acquisition ever made by Microsoft, who set up a new Graphics Business Unit in Silicon Valley to develop it further. A color version, adding features to also make 35mm slide presentations, was shipped for Mac in 1988 and for Windows in …
Paul Revere's Last Ride: The Road To Rolling Copper, Robert Martello
Paul Revere's Last Ride: The Road To Rolling Copper, Robert Martello
Robert Martello
An immigrant's son, a heroic revolutionary rider, and an eminent silversmith, Paul Revere seems to epitomize the American Dream. He has been justifiably lauded as a hardworking, practical, and ambitious patriot-citizen, yet this portrait is incomplete. Paul Revere's greatest ride, truly earning him his place in history, was his successful quest to become the first American to master the technique of rolling copper.
John Goodricke, Edward Pigott, And Their Work On Variable Stars, Linda French
John Goodricke, Edward Pigott, And Their Work On Variable Stars, Linda French
Linda French
John Goodricke and Edward Pigott, working in York, England, between 1781 and 1786, determined the periods of variation of eclipsing binaries such as b Persei (Algol) and b Lyrae and speculated that the eclipses of Algol might be caused by a “dark body,” perhaps even a planet. They also determined the periods of variation of the first two known Cepheid variables, the stars whose period-luminosity relation today enables astronomers to determine distances to distant galaxies. Goodricke holds special interest because he was completely deaf and because he died at the age of 21. The lives and work of these two …
Review Of "Isaac's Eye," By Lucas Hnath, Ensemble Studio Theater, Karen Gevirtz
Review Of "Isaac's Eye," By Lucas Hnath, Ensemble Studio Theater, Karen Gevirtz
Karen Bloom Gevirtz
No abstract provided.
Affective Neuroscience And The Philosophy Of Self, Stephen Asma
Affective Neuroscience And The Philosophy Of Self, Stephen Asma
Stephen T Asma
The nature of self awareness and the origin and persistence of personal identity still loom large in contemporary philosophy of mind. Many philosophers have been wooed by the computational approach to consciousness, and they attempt to find the self amidst the phenomenon of neocortical information processing. Affective neuroscience offers another pathway to understanding the evolution and nature of self. This paper explores how affective neuroscience acts as a positive game-changer in the philosophical pursuit of self. In particular, we focus on connecting 'mammalian agency' to (a) subjective awareness, and (b) identity through time.
Big History: First Year Experience (Panel Presentation), Lynn Sondag
Big History: First Year Experience (Panel Presentation), Lynn Sondag
Lynn Sondag
No abstract provided.
A War Of Worlds: Becoming “Early Modern” And The Challenge Of Comparison, Ayesha Ramachandran
A War Of Worlds: Becoming “Early Modern” And The Challenge Of Comparison, Ayesha Ramachandran
Ayesha Ramachandran
No abstract provided.
The Birth Of The Sperm Bank, Kara Swanson
The Role Of Optimality In Aristotle's Natural Science, Devin Henry
The Role Of Optimality In Aristotle's Natural Science, Devin Henry
Devin Henry
In this paper I examine the role of optimality reasoning in Aristotle’s natural science. By “optimality reasoning” I mean reasoning that appeals to some conception of “what is best” in order to explain why things are the way they are. We are first introduced to this pattern of reasoning in the famous passage at Phaedo 97b8-98a2, where (Plato’s) Socrates invokes “what is best” as a cause (aitia) of things in nature. This passage can be seen as the intellectual ancestor of Aristotle’s own principle, expressed by the famous dictum “nature does nothing in vain but always what is best for …
Curiosities Or Science In The National Museum Of Victoria: Procurement Networks And The Purpose Of A Museum, Gareth Knapman
Curiosities Or Science In The National Museum Of Victoria: Procurement Networks And The Purpose Of A Museum, Gareth Knapman
Gareth Knapman
No abstract provided.
George Engelmann’S Barometer: Measuring Civil War America From St. Louis, Adam Arenson
George Engelmann’S Barometer: Measuring Civil War America From St. Louis, Adam Arenson
Adam Arenson
In the Civil War Era, German-American botanist George Engelmann regularly measured St. Louis's pressure and temperature--both literally, as a scientist, and figuratively, in his observations on the nation's politics. This essay uses this doubling to explore the place of St. Louis within Civil War America.
The Royal College Of Physicians Survey Of Savannah, 1829, Arthur Mitchell Fraas
The Royal College Of Physicians Survey Of Savannah, 1829, Arthur Mitchell Fraas
Arthur Mitchell Fraas
This article presents the annotated text of an 1829 survey of the state of medicine and health in Savannah Georgia as completed by the British consul in that city.