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#205 Why Green Activism Must Turn Blue | WeAreSTS

Students come into university with strong visions of activism and improvement. They know the planet needs their help. But how? What can STS (in the form of degrees like “Sociology and Politics of Science BSc” […]

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 […]

Karl Pearson, 1910, University College London

Student Satire Aimed at Karl Pearson’s 1904 Eugenics Lecture

Historians of eugenics have been slow to research criticisms of eugenics from within research and learning communities. A notable exception is Ewa Barbara Luczak’s (2022) Mocking Eugenics: American Culture Against Scientific Hatred. (Also look for […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Year: 2025

Karl Pearson in rare media interview about eugenics in Public Opinion

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

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

Student Satire Aimed at Karl Pearson’s 1904 Eugenics Lecture