Jonathan Swinton (self-parody)
jonathan229.bsky.social
Jonathan Swinton (self-parody)
@jonathan229.bsky.social
Even less frivolously, most of these other suggestions, though marvellous to us, would have been just toys for rulers. But in 1525 a hand grinder for turning smallpox scabs into vaccine would have had quite impressive effects on the fate of the Aztecs.
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
An actual time machine would be hard to beat for making an impression. (Plus you can go back and stop the parents meeting of whoever who want to burn you.) Slightly less frivolously, take a 300 year old chronometer, solve the longitude problem and impress by the size of your trade routes.
December 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I think Evelyn Fox Keller's _Making Sense of Life_ is superb anf thought-provoking not just on Leduc but the whole program of theoretical and synthetic biology. Lots of 'yes!' moments. I don't know why it isn't better known, though I have known people mistake it for a self-help book...
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Now I want to know about Thackeray and the 'Letters four do form his name' man.
September 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
An uncropped unlabelled image is at conexion.cinvestav.mx/multimedia/G... . It looks as though it comes from the Cinvestav archives so I would guess UNAM. Really doubt this is Macy (and Mead is not one normally to be found in the back row...)
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August 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Post a warning.
March 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Post a warning, again.
March 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Post a warning, proleptic edition.
March 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It's an amazing venue and I had great fun... Thanks for coming Niall.
February 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Dr Allen found it bloody heavy to carry from Somerset. I know this is not funny for geologists. But I'm not a geologist.
November 14, 2024 at 1:24 PM
November 12, 2024 at 7:16 PM
But do you have class discussions of mathematical authority? How do they go and can you point your students to good critique of that?
October 16, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Veronika Douchová 2016. My instinct was the same as yours, but actually there is an overlap with Gestalt theory which has, I'd say, been successfully absorbed into current theories of cognition.
October 16, 2024 at 11:42 AM