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Observing and Making the Effects of Pollution Explicit
Unless exceptional events cause effects directly visible to the naked eye, air, and water pollution remain mostly imperceptible. The frequent absence
Publication
Gramaglia, C. 2005. "River Sentinels: Finding a Mouth for the Lot River." In B. Latour & P. Weibel (eds), Making Things Public. Atm
Getupfte Bienen
Nr 5
Wissenschaftshistorikerin Tania Munz untersucht Karl von Frischs Studien zu den Honigbienen über fünf Jahrzehnte und spürt dem Übergang der Biene zu einem kulturellen und wissenschaftlichen Objekt nach.
Numbering Bees
Nr 5
Historian of science Tania Munz examines Karl von Frisch’s work on honeybees over five decades and traces the transition of the bee as a cultural and scientific object.
Klimatologie kartieren
Nr 44
In seinem Projekt untersucht Philipp Lehmann mit Hilfe digitaler Kartierung die koloniale Vergangenheit der Klimawissenschaft.
Mapping Climatology
Nr 44
In a new project, Philipp Lehmann studies the colonial past of climate science with the help of digital maps.
Brownian Motion and Microphysical Reality c. 1900
In the years around 1900 scientific research became increasingly concerned with sub-microscopic entities, including atoms, molecules, ions, bacteria,
Animal Models of Human Behavior: Cultures of Observation
Natural and social scientists have long been fascinated by the biological basis of human behavior. By anthropomorphizing animal behavior, biologists f
Atomic Food for Peace?—Materializing a Radiant Idea in a Transnational Network of Research and Development
As a title for her project, “Atomic Food for Peace” is Karin Zachmann's invention. As a concept, however, it clearly existed in the mid-1950s. The ide
Aging Research in Nineteenth-century Biology
Humans have learned from experience that time is a factor that reveals change. In combination with the conception that an individual’s life is limited
Funding Institutions, The Max Planck International Research Network on Aging (MaxNetAging)
Being Brains
In the context of the collaborative project “The Cerebral Subject: Brain and Self in Contemporary Culture,” Fernando Vidal and Francisco Javier Guerre