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Toward a Quantitative History of Data
The twenty-first century is a century of data. Our lives are tangled in webs of data, and tools for creating, storing, communicating, and manipulating
A Cultural History of Heredity
This project centered on the scientific and technological practices in which knowledge of heredity was materially entrenched and in which it unfolded
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Gastwissenschaftler Dieter Hoffmann in Das Blättchen über den Physiker Hans-Jürgen Treder
Zum ArtikelVisiting Scholar Dieter Hoffmann in Das Blättchen on physicist Hans-Jürgen Treder
Read ArticleStigma and Cure: Challenge of Proof in HIV Cure Research
Over the past decade, research towards a cure for HIV infection has expanded and accelerated, leading to conceptual friction between biomedical and bi
Circuit Stories: Resonant Circuitry at the Interface of Music and Media
This project examines several episodes in the history of researching and utilizing electric and electronic oscillations, connecting narratives from th
Rationality of Noise: Gathering Acoustic Information during the Cold War
This project focuses on a historical moment when noise was a political concern. During its first decades, the 1950s and 1960s, Radio Free Europe (RFE)
State, Mining, and Transfer of Innovation in Early Modern Europe
In a comparative way, my project attempts to analyze particular channels and personae involved in the transfer of practical, scientific and administra
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Wefts of Innovation in Premodern China (13th–17th Century)
“Cloths are for all (衣被群生)” declared the Chinese statesman Ouyang Xiu歐陽修(1007–1071) once in a memorandum to the throne. Although Ouyang did not s
Gottfried Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant (1672–1679)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was a German polymath, mathematician, linguist, courtier, diplomat, theologian, jurist, and, most famously perha