Vol. 41, No. 1, January 2012
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From the HSS President: History of Science Unbound
The history of science is everywhere. It is in the names of street signs and in currency adorned with portraits of national scientific heroes. It is in inspirational stories that children learn about men and women who have advanced fundamental knowledge of nature, or who have contributed to improvements in health and technology.
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Notes from the Inside
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News from the Profession
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Search for a New Society Editor
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Upcoming Conferences
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Job and Fellowship Announcements
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Member News
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From the HSS President: History of Science Unbound
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Learning Another Language
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Pox and the City
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Tennis and the Scientific Revolution
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New San Francisco Foundation Is Telling the Story of Biotechnology
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Reflections from Cleveland and the 2011 Annual Meeting
Notes from the Inside
Society Executive Director Jay Malone discusses the relationship between the NSF and the HSS.
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News
News from the History of Science.
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Member News
News from members of the History of Science Society.
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Upcoming Conferences
Upcoming History of Science conferences and reports from recently concluded conferences.
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New San Francisco Foundation is Telling the Story of Biotechnology
The Life Sciences Foundation (LSF) is a San Francisco-based public charity established in 2010 by historian of science Arnold Thackray, founder and Chancellor Emeritus of the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
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Learning Another Language: Goals and Challenges
In recent years language programs in the United States have been closed, and the federal government has reduced its support for language education. Because of the fundamental importance of language learning, it is urgent to resist these cutbacks.
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Search for a New Society Editor: Hercules meets ISIS
According to Greek mythology, Atlas, one of the Titans, was condemned by Zeus to hold up the heavens for siding with the other Titans against the Olympians. He is sometimes depicted in sculptures as holding the earth on his shoulders.
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Tennis and the Scientific Revolution: Watson Seminar on the Material and Visual History of Science 2012
In the autumn of 1463 in the town of Orvieto, the German philosopher and astronomer Nicolò Cusano completed his treatise De ludo globi, in which he used the rules of a novel game played with a ball to describe a new vision of the universe.
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Pox and the City: A Digital Role Playing Game in the History of Medicine
We are currently embarked on an exciting enterprise, boldly going where no one has gone before: creating a 3rd person, isomorphic digital role playing game (RPG) for the history of medicine. Affectionately known as Pox and the City, and funded with a Digital Start-Up Grant from the Office of Digital Humanities, a division of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the game is set in early 19th century Edinburgh.
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Reflections from Cleveland and the 2011 Annual Meeting
Thanks from Nuria Valverde and a post–meeting survey by Society Coordinator Greg Macklem.
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Job and Fellowship Announcements
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