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Book Review: Weinberg, Steven. “To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science”. 2015 [Final Draft, May 9, 2017]

• May 9, 2017 • Leave a Comment

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Anthropocene Annotated

• May 1, 2017 • Leave a Comment

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Reflection: Buchanan, Mark. “Lost in Translation”. Nature. Volume 7. October 28, 2011. Page 667 Bergh, Sidney. “The Curious Case of Lemaitre’s Equation No. 24”. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Volume 105. August 2011. Page 151. Block, David. “Georges Lemaitre and Stigler’s Law of Eponymy”. In Holder, Rodney and Mitton, Simon. Georges Lemaitre: Life, Science and Legacy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Volume 395. October 4, 2012. Pages 89-96. Bieri, Lydia and Nussbaumer, Harry. “Who Discovered the Expansion of the Universe?” The Observatory. Volume 131. December 2011. Pages 394-398.

• April 25, 2017 • Leave a Comment

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Book Review: Walker, Brett. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan, University of Washington, 2010. 352 Pages. Part II: Preface-Chapter 2, Pages X-16

• March 25, 2017 • Leave a Comment

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Book Review: Weinberg, Steven. “To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science”. 2015 [Draft 1, March 24, 2017]

• March 24, 2017 • Leave a Comment

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Crossing the Line—Or Erasing the Border?

• March 16, 2017 • Leave a Comment

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Book Review: Walker, Brett. “Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan”, University of Washington, 2010. 352 Pages. Part I: Chapters 1-4, Pages 38-228

• March 14, 2017 • Leave a Comment

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Book Review: Sachs, Aaron. The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth Century and the Roots of American Environmentalism. Viking Penguin. August 2006. Part Four: “North: George Wallace Melville and John Muir”. Chapters 8-10, Pages 273-353

• March 7, 2017 • Leave a Comment

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Book Review: Sachs, Aaron. “The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth Century and the Roots of American Environmentalism”. Viking Penguin. August 2006. Part I: East: Humboldt and the Influence of Europe. Chapters 2-3, Pages 41-108

• March 2, 2017 • Leave a Comment

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The Darwinian Revolution

• December 12, 2016 • Leave a Comment

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