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Wednesday’s Book Review: “Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Culture”
Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Culture. By Daniel Patrick Thurs. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007, paperback reprint 2008. Vii + 237 pgs., acknowledgments, introduction, notes, index. ISBN: 978-0-8135-4420-5, $27.95 paperback. Science is one element of … Continue reading
Wednesday’s Book Review: “Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century”
Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Alexander C.T. Geppert. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Hardcover. 393 pp. Color plates, notes, index. ISBN 978-0-230-23172-6. US $105.00. In 1997 Howard E. McCurdy published the path-breaking Space and … Continue reading
Wednesday’s Book Review: “Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles”
Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles.By David Darlington. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1997. Area 51, the highly classified military installation at Groom Lake in the Nevada desert about 90 miles north of Las Vegas, may be more a state … Continue reading
Conspiracy Theories in Aerospace History: A Lesson in Critical Thinking for the Internet Age
Check out the educational webinar that I participated in on Friday, October 28. “Conspiracy Theories in Aerospace History: A Lesson in Critical Thinking for the Internet Age” brought together several curators from the National Air and Space Museum, an educator … Continue reading
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