I’ve posted some archival document finds that show John Prescott (RIP) in interesting lights over on the bluer, less musky site. Join me there!
In Merida, Yucatán, Mexico, for the HSS annual big meeting.
Arrived on the brand new Tren Maya. Station is still being built.
But it turns out you ** CAN ** build a fast train that goes roughly the distance between London and Manchester
Last week at @stsucl History of Science Reading Group we had a good discussion of Warwick Anderson's 'Hybridity, Race, and Science: the Voyage of the Zaca, 1934–1935'. Was scientific anti-racism made in the South Pacific? doi.org/10.1086/666354
Today at @stsucl History of Science Reading Group we are discussing Michael Bycroft's 'A neo-positivist theory of scientific change', BJHS Themes, an argument that if we become neo-positivists we can heal our discipline and help save the humanities bit.ly/3XaF3Xd
Today at @stsucl History of Science Reading Group we’re discussing Daniel Immerwahr’s ‘All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States’, Past & Present (2024). Looking forward to it. It’s a superb paper doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtad01…
Jon Agar retweeted
A century ago Henry Ford showed you could be a genius at business, and a brilliant pioneer in engineering, but a dangerous fool in relation to politics, admiring and admired by all the wrong people. Elon Musk is following in his footsteps – this week giving $75m to the campaign of a man, who according to the head of the military when he was President, is ‘fascist to the core’. I can't tell whether Musk is wholly cynical or a political fool. Luckily Ford’s politics had little impact in the US. But in that respect I fear history won’t repeat itself.
