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Doctors of "L’Esprit nouveau": Human Energetics and the Formation of the French Avant-garde
My PhD research considers the intersection of art and architectural practice within the milieu of the French periodical L’Esprit nouveau (19
The Liver in Egypt: Productions of an Organ through 20th-century Public Health and Political Economy
The Liver in Egypt chronicles the fate of Egyptian bodies, and specifically their livers, through a collection of epistemological, political, and
A Brief History of Black Holes
No 12
Late in 2018, the gravitational wave observatory, LIGO, announced that they had detected the most distant and massive source of ripples of spacetime ever monitored: waves triggered by pairs of black holes colliding in deep space.
Carla Rodrigues Almeida
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A Brief History of Black Holes
No 12
Late in 2018, the gravitational wave observatory, LIGO, announced that they had detected the most distant and massive source of ripples of spacetime ever monitored: waves triggered by pairs of black holes colliding in deep space.
Carla Rodrigues Almeida
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Direktorin Dagmar Schäfer über das Wissen chinesischer Bauern über das Kranzbergsche fünfte Gesetz
Zum ArtikelDagmar Schäfer writes for Society for the History of Technology on Kranzberg's fifth law of technology
Read ArticleDealing with Devil Has Long Been a Part of Medicine
No 13
Thirty children in Amsterdam began to show signs of a disturbing affliction in the winter of 1566. The symptoms would strike without warning: the children would at first be seized by a violent frenzy, then fall to the ground, their bodies wracked with painful convulsions. Once the fits had passed, the children reported no memory of them.
Laura Sumrall
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Dealing with Devil Has Long Been a Part of Medicine
No 13
Thirty children in Amsterdam began to show signs of a disturbing affliction in the winter of 1566. The symptoms would strike without warning: the children would at first be seized by a violent frenzy, then fall to the ground, their bodies wracked with painful convulsions. Once the fits had passed, the children reported no memory of them.
Laura Sumrall
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La colonisation du savoir: une histoire des plantes médicinales du "Nouveau Monde" (1492-1750)
Tabac, coca, quinquina, cacao, gaiac, peyotl, poisons, abortifs... De 1492 au milieu du XVIIIe siècle, les Européens s’approprient en Amérique d’innombrables plantes médicinales. Au moyen d’expéditions scientifiques et d’interrogatoires, ils collectent le savoir des Indiens ou des esclaves pour marchander des drogues, et élaborent avec elles les premières politiques de santé.
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Renormalization after 1950
A central problem with quantum field theory in its early days was the persistent appearance of divergences in the calculations of important physical q