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MPIWG-Ausstellungen bei der Wissensstadt Berlin 2021: Ein Rückblick
MPIWG-Ausstellungen bei der Wissensstadt Berlin 2021: Ein Rückblick
Nov 12, 2021Anatomy of a Hybrid: The Entangled History of Biology and Silk in Modern Japan
This project examines how endeavors in Japan to produce and export mass quantities of raw silk generated new biological knowledge about the domesticat
Animals and Entangled Epistemologies in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Epistemological change in early modern Europe has long been told as an internalist story. Even with the Iberian and global “turns” in the history of s
The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way out of a Climate Crisis
Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption—a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view, we can barely imagine
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Testing Chemicals and Validating Tests: Regulatory Practices and Politics
From the 1960s to the 1980s, cancer was regarded by many scientists and government agencies as an environmental disease, one that could be controlled
Concepts as Technologies: On the Use of Concepts in Biomedical Practice
Concepts have often been described as or in analogy with technologies. Expressions such as technical term, term of art, conceptual tools, or, more rec
The Chinese Past (and Future?) of Natural Sciences (in German)
MoreDie chinesische Vergangenheit (und Zukunft?) der Naturwissenschaften
MoreOptical Cultures of Fibers and Viruses, 1916–1984
The visualization and imagination of biological structures at sub-microscopic scales is one of the defining features of modern biology. Our sense of t
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The Body of Animals
Animals have been central to humans in their attempts to understand their world and in revealing the secrets of nature. The theme "The Body of Animals