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Public Opinion newspaper front page 08 July 1912

Karl Pearson in rare media interview about eugenics in Public Opinion

Professor Karl Pearson rarely took media interviews. It was a point of principle. It also was a point of privilege. He hated criticism, and he had an extremely fragile personality. He deliberately insulated his work […]

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#204 Power of Standards: How to Gain Influence in Global Technology Innovation | WeAreSTS

Standard rule over us. We’re affected every day by decisions someone has made about standards. They determine the shape of our electrical plugs, the quality of our water, the signals used by our phones, and […]

Otter diorama in James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2013.

Newton Horace Winchell’s History of Geological Surveys in Minnesota (1889)

Newton Horace Winchell (1939-1914) had a profound effect on the size and shape of geological surveys in the American midwest. His 1889 History of Geological Surveys in Minnesota provides a good synopsis of, and some […]