Will Thomas
@williamthomas.bsky.social
Director of Research in History, Policy, and Culture at the American Institute of Physics. Author of Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940-1960. Views expressed are my own.
I don't condone it, but what do you expect, going outside in 10 degrees without a hat and a silly haircut, spouting off like that?
January 18, 2026 at 12:14 AM
I don't condone it, but what do you expect, going outside in 10 degrees without a hat and a silly haircut, spouting off like that?
It looks great. I really want to read it!
January 17, 2026 at 4:05 AM
It looks great. I really want to read it!
Reposted by Will Thomas
Shameless Flamsteed/Royal Observatory plug, this talk by @hillemmalouise.bsky.social and I: youtu.be/Hn6FeZ2UlZo?...
After Hours with Flamsteed's Burned Star Atlas
YouTube video by Linda Hall Library
youtu.be
January 9, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Shameless Flamsteed/Royal Observatory plug, this talk by @hillemmalouise.bsky.social and I: youtu.be/Hn6FeZ2UlZo?...
That story is a piece of his new book on nuclear arms and disarmament policy www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Strange Stability — Harvard University Press
An eye-opening reconsideration of the Cold War arms control movement, showing how scientists who presented themselves as independent-minded opponents of the arms race in fact functioned as agents of t...
www.hup.harvard.edu
January 7, 2026 at 1:16 PM
That story is a piece of his new book on nuclear arms and disarmament policy www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
It's hard to get the head right. Just ask Jeremy Bentham!
January 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
It's hard to get the head right. Just ask Jeremy Bentham!
You're probably OK. Google seems to only not want users to commercialize scans of public domain images. HathiTrust has some Google-specific guidance here that distinguishes "scholarly" from "commercial" use: www.hathitrust.org/the-collecti...
www.hathitrust.org
January 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
You're probably OK. Google seems to only not want users to commercialize scans of public domain images. HathiTrust has some Google-specific guidance here that distinguishes "scholarly" from "commercial" use: www.hathitrust.org/the-collecti...
That old? Public domain worldwide. The only possible restriction would be if you were directly lifting somebody's proprietary digitizations, but there can be no restriction on the content of the tables regardless of how you accessed it.
January 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM
That old? Public domain worldwide. The only possible restriction would be if you were directly lifting somebody's proprietary digitizations, but there can be no restriction on the content of the tables regardless of how you accessed it.