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Google says some Googlebooks have better Android app support than others, and here's why
The first Googlebooks are finally here, but Google has confirmed to Android Authority that some models might have Android app issues.
Downtown Urbana entertainment venue/restaurant seeks extension on opening date
While an official opening date for Fernieโs High Horse has yet to be announced, at least two concerts are already booked for late 2026: Emo brand TRSH on Dec. 4
'I Play Rocky' review: Can this crowd-pleaser be an Oscar contender?
"Green Book" director Peter Farrelly offers Oscar bait. But can it topple "The Odyssey"?
From floating saunas to clinical trials: How heat might help mental health
Many people are turning to sauna because of its benefits for their mental health. While scientists have a decent understanding of how sauna โ and other forms of heat exposure โ exercises our cardiovascular system, they know relatively little about its impact on depression, anxiety and mood. But more studies are being done to understand this connection and why heat appears to act as a powerful antidepressant. NPR's Will Stone visits a "floating sauna village" in Oslo where a husband-wife team are conducting one of the first trials on the link between sauna and mental health โ and talks to one of the leading researchers in the U.S about her efforts to study this. Morning Edition consumer health segment for October 5
Strawberries in February: The Cyclospora outbreak and the cost of convenience
The 2026 outbreak reveals strains on farmworkers, food inspections and disease tracking in a system where consumers demand fresh produce year-round.
Driving Community Health: Bristol Myers Squibb, Emirates Thalassemia Society and Dubai Science Park Host the 6th 'Help Save a Life' Blood Donation Drive
/PRNewswire/ -- For patients living with chronic blood disorders, access to safe and reliable blood supplies is fundamental to their care journey. Marking the...
Driving Community Health: Bristol Myers Squibb, Emirates Thalassemia Society and Dubai Science Park Host the 6th 'Help Save a Life' Blood Donation Drive
/PRNewswire/ -- For patients living with chronic blood disorders, access to safe and reliable blood supplies is fundamental to their care journey. Marking the...
Whole Fruits vs. Juice? Study Finds Differences in Heart Health
Whether you slice fruit into your cereal or drink a glass of juice apparently makes a difference for the heart. A large U.S. study shows that adults with high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, or ...
Kit Chapman wins 2026 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize
Kit Chapman has won the 2026 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize for The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry (Profile Books).
Adaptation delivers bookโs tone, forgets some important details
For every novel, there must be an equal or opposite adaptation โ thatโs how the rule goes, right? Author Ali Hazelwoodโs latest film, โThe Love Hypothesis,โ is Hollywoodโs most recent
True Food Kitchen Initiates Voluntary Chapter 11 Proceedings to Position Business for Long-Term Success
/PRNewswire/ -- True Food Kitchen (the "Company") today announced that it and certain affiliates have filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of...
George Kittle now ranks fourth in 49ers all-time TDs
George Kittle keeps moving up the 49ers record books.
MacBook Pro With OLED Display Rumored to Be 'Significantly Lighter'
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman today said the new MacBook Pro models with OLED displays will be "significantly lighter" than the existing MacBook Pro models. "Apple has reengineered the machine's interior, miniaturizing parts and rearranging components to make the computer much easier to carry," he said, in his Power On newsletter. Currently, the MacBook Pro weighs up to 4.7 pounds, while the MacBook Air weighs up to 3.3 pounds and the MacBook Neo weighs 2.7 pounds.
On Violence in Fighting Occupation: The Case of Palestine
In this new postscript to various translations of his book on the Gaza genocide, Achcar addresses the role of violence in anti-occupation struggles.
Apple MacBook Pro Release Schedule: What To Expect When
Apple plans an M6 MacBook Pro for late October, holding its OLED redesign to 2027 to protect iPhone sales under new CEO John Ternus.
2TB MicroSD Express card leaks, providing Switch 2 storage for 100+ games
With some Switch 2 games creating a storage dilemma, help is on the way. Suneast is marketing a 2TB MicroSD Express card without a release date or price. Amid the memory shortage, 1TB cards already cost Nintendo supporters over $300.
The reason the Mac mini is cheaper than a MacBook
Is it better to buy a Mac mini or a MacBook? If you already have a display, mouse and keyboard, the mini makes sense. If you don't, a MacBook might be smarter.
You should avoid using a screen protector on your MacBook
Screen protectors can do more harm than good.
Oldtone Music Festival returned to Hillsdale
Oldtone Music Festival drew bands, dancing and workshops at Cool Whisper Farm, celebrating roots music and traditional folkways.
Township of Ocean Announces Annual Pumpkin Decorating Contest for Local Youth
Ocean Township opens youth pumpkin decorating contest, with Amazon gift cards for top entries in two age divisions.
The Upcoming Touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro Is Reportedly 'Significantly Lighter'
The high-end laptop is still expected to make its debut by next month.
Amazon Dumps the MacBook Air (M5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) Before Prime Day, 1TB Models Marked Down Too
Apple won't discount the new MacBook Air, so Amazon did it first.
Lina Khan says AI companies shouldn't follow Big Tech's playbook
Former FTC chair Lina Khan cautioned against AI companies regulating themselves during an interview on ABC's "This Week."
Booked, busy and really pregnant: 'Verity' star Anne Hathaway's nonstop year of blockbusters
Hathaway's Instagram bio โ a casual list of the five films she's starred in this year โ is further proof of how busy she's been.
Amazon Launches Early Prime Day Discounts on AirPods, iPad, MacBook Air, and More
Earlier this week, we began tracking early Prime Day deals on Apple-related accessories, and today Amazon has introduced major early deals on Apple products as well. This includes AirPods, iPads, MacBooks, and more, all available at some of the lowest prices of the year so far. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.
Paly students combine science, compassion in childrenโs book
A group of Palo Alto High School students recently published a picture book โ โThe Brave Fuzzyโ โ that is geared toward getting young children excited for science.
Redesigned MacBook Pro with OLED to feature 'significantly lighter' design: report
Appleโs major MacBook Pro overhaul is just around the corner, and should debut within a month or so. Itโll be...
Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra: (Slightly) faster charging and potentially fewer camera artifacts
While industry insiders are currently focused on the starting mass production of some Galaxy S27 series components like the Exynos 2700, leakers are sharing more details about battery and camera improvements that could matter to end users.
Book review: How one coach built a college golf dynasty
Jim McLean details how coach Dave Williams transformed the University of Houston into a college golf powerhouse.
The MacBook Air M5 is $200 off for the first time in months
Save some cash on Appleโs midrange laptop.
Shirt of the Week: โJeremiah Smith: Are You Not Entertained?โ
On Saturday, Jeremiah Smith cemented his name in Ohio State record books with another thrilling performance. Now, you can celebrate the historic accomplishment with this brand new design from BreakingT.
Politics chat: Midterm polls, Senate races, Trump in Texas
As polls come out with increasing frequency closer to the midterm election, how much credence should voters give them? Meanwhile, President Trump continues campaigning for GOP candidates.
The forgotten Chromebook that started it all
On Version History: Marques Brownlee and Nilay Patel relive the release of the Cr-48, Googleโs prototype laptop.
Beshear teases 2028 run, shares message of healing at Nashville stop
Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear fueled speculation of a 2028 presidential bid while visiting Nashville for a fundraiser and book event.
Jason Bourne author, more celebrities died in SW Florida: Exclusive
Robert Ludlum wrote three Bourne books, including \
โAnd I beat them:โ Former U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston on โa politically motivated prosecutionโ
The former top leader in the U.S. House talks about his new book, Trump, and partisanship in Congress.
โAnd I beat them:โ Former U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston on โa politically motivated prosecutionโ
The former top leader in the U.S. House talks about his new book, Trump, and partisanship in Congress.
โAnd I beat them:โ Former U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston on โa politically motivated prosecutionโ
The former top leader in the U.S. House talks about his new book, Trump, and partisanship in Congress.
A tale of two AAA games: Control Resonant shows what gaming can be, Marvelโs Wolverine shows what it is becoming
News, Reviews and other Informations about Laptops
Editorial: Why shopping local matters
For fans of 1998's โYouโve Got Mailโ and perhaps anyone who has owned a brick-and-mortar small business, thereโs nothing more heartbreaking than watching Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) shutting off all the lights, and locking the doors to her independent childrenโs bookshop...
Baubles & Brews brings women-owned businesses together in Pottsville
Candles, pottery, books, and skincare filled tables at Arrow Studio & Events on Saturday as 23 small businesses came together for Baubles & Brews, a fall market centered on women entrepreneurs and the community they have built. Forโฆ
New Flomaton bookstore aims to spark downtown growth amid vacant storefronts
FLOMATON, Ala. -- The town of flomaton's business landscape grew.With a population of just over 14-hundred people, it's downtown landscape is changing.Its done
From saunas to psychedelics, how a health reporter sorts science from hype
A reporting trip to a sauna conference in Oslo found NPR's Will Stone in a sauna with his clothes and recording gear. In this reporter's notebook, he explains how he investigates the science behind wellness claims.
From saunas to psychedelics, how a health reporter sorts science from hype
A reporting trip to a sauna conference in Oslo found NPR's Will Stone in a sauna with his clothes and recording gear. In this reporter's notebook, he explains how he investigates the science behind wellness claims.
AI Made StarCraft Bot Swaps In Human Made Bot In Tournament
In a showdown between AI generated Brood War bots and human made ones, OpenAIโs champion resorted to its natural playbook: lie, cheat and steal
OLED MacBook Pro to Release This Year
Apple is expected to announce a 16- and 14-inch MacBook Pro with an OLED display and touch-screen capabilities this month or the next. Apple is trying out ...
Kramers bookstore marksย 50 years ofย books, bites andย DC history
Kramers โ a bookstore, restaurant and D.C. icon โ is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, largely due to their commitment to authenticity.
John Green revisits the movie business at โHollywood, Endingโ author event
โHollywood, Ending,โ released Sept. 22, debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list and USA Todayโs Best-selling Booklist.
Goddess Empire Entertainment proudly presents EARTHA... I'M STILL HERE!
STARRING THOMASINA GROSS THOMASINA GROSS HEADLINES SOLD OUT / SRO ACCLAIMED EARTHA KITT TOUR-DE-FORCE
Apple iPhone 18 Pro Max gaming test shows up to 69% less performance loss than iPhone 17 Pro Max
I think itโs safe to say that the iPhone 18 Pro Maxโs sustained thermal performance is pretty nice.
Apple MacBook Pro Release Schedule: What To Expect When
Apple plans an M6 MacBook Pro for late October, holding its OLED redesign to 2027 to protect iPhone sales under new CEO John Ternus.
โNo brainerโ: Growing trend of Chinese tourists booking business-class flights
Chinese holidaymakers are increasingly upgrading to โpremium travelโ to make their well-earned leisure time more pleasurable, say insiders.
What to remember before reading 'ACOTAR' book 6 by Sarah J. Maas
Sarah J. Maas' new book, "A Court of Splintered Harmony," will continue storylines from "A Court of Thorns and Roses" and "Crescent City."
Apple weekend deals: MacBook Pro $500 off, AirTag 2, Prime Day HomeKit discounts, MagSafe chargers, more
While we are still awaiting some of the big fall Prime Day deals on some Apple products, there are already...
Week in Politics: Inflation pressure; war in Iran and effect on midterm elections
We look at how some concerning economic indicators as well as the ongoing war in Iran might affect the midterm elections.
Saturday Sports: Major League Baseball playoff time; WNBA
NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant discuss the WNBA and MLB playoffs.
'Fall in Love With Science" Will Be Oct. 3 in Lincoln Park
โFall in Love with Scienceโ will take place Saturday, 3 to 5 p.m., in Oleans Lincoln Park Pavilion.
Business moves in and around downtown
The Railyard changes hands, books replace flowers, and Bus Stop moves across the street.
JPMorgan lays out the investing playbook for 2026 midterm elections
Gridlock tends to be a benign election outcome for markets, as investors don't have to grapple with the potential for sweeping policy changes.
Google AI Plus and free users are losing access to Gemini models, and it's happening very soon
The more advanced tiers aren't seeing any changes.
Artists remember veteran concert producer Susan Lim and her decades in entertainment
Photo from Facebook/@susan.o.lim Artists and colleagues are remembering veteran concert producer Susan Lim for a career that spanned Philippine productions and overseas tours for Filipino performers. Lim died Sept. 14. Pops Fernandez, Martin Nievera and Roderick Paulate were among those who later shared public tributes, recalling both her work in entertainment and their longtime friendships with her. Lim had been active inโฆ
Football Frenzy 10/02
NORTHEAST KANSAS (KSNT) โ Week 5 of the high school football season is in the books. Send final scores to Kole.Emplit@ksnt.com and Sydney.Clark@ksnt.com. 6A 5A 4A 3A 2A 1A 8-Man For more sports news, click here. Keep up with the latest breaking news in northeast Kansas by downloading our mobile app and by signing up for [โฆ]
Juan Luis Arsuaga, paleontologist: โCorruption is very Paleolithic, very chimpanzee-likeโ
The co-director of the Atapuerca archaeological site shares with EL PAรS the key points of his new book, โThe Answer,โ a luminous text that exudes admiration for our own species and love for nature
โTinder Swindlerโ romance fraudster promises โsafeโ dating app โ using intel from con man playbook
Shimon Hayut, the notorious 'Tinder Swindler' also known as Simon Leviev, says his new Safe Love dating app will use identity verification to prevent the fraud he once committed.
Healthcare Has Normalized The Abnormal. Raj Panjabiโs New Book Explains Why.
A new book from former Biden official Raj Panjabi unpacks the notion of โnormalcy bias.โ It may help explain how we have come to accept our countryโs underperforming healthcare system.
Book Talk: Curl up with one of 2026โs thrilling mysteries
As Denton enters spooky season, Book Talk columnist Jean Greenlaw rounds up mysteries and thrillers from this year.
LA County Extends East LA Small Business Grant Deadline
Los Angeles County officials announced Friday that the application deadline for a grant program assisting small businesses affected by the Lineage Fire and East Los Angeles Oil Spill has been extended by one week, to Oct. 9. The Small Business Recovery Grant provides up to $3,000 to eligible brick-and-mortar businesses and up to $1,000 to [โฆ]
Man used Facebook Marketplace to advertise business selling magic mushrooms: HCSO
A Riverview man was arrested on Friday after authorities said he was running a business selling hallucinogens on Facebook Marketplace.
Stage 12 West opens in downtown Mesa
Stage 12 West, a new restaurant that doubles as a live entertainment venue, opened its doors in downtown Mesa on Friday morning.
Delta Expo celebrates regional business, culture, entertainment
From live music and Delta food to shopping, stepping, books, and small-business showcases, Pine Bluff buzzed Sept. 25-26 as the first-of-its-kind Delta Expo brought businesses, entrepreneurs, artists, and community members together at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. Presented by the Pine Bluff Black Chamber of Commerce and visionary president and CEO Joni Alexander-Robinson, the two-day [โฆ]
Delta Expo celebrates regional business, culture, entertainment
From live music and Delta food to shopping, stepping, books, and small-business showcases, Pine Bluff buzzed Sept. 25-26 as the first-of-its-kind Delta Expo brought businesses, entrepreneurs, artists, and community members together at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. Presented by the Pine Bluff Black Chamber of Commerce and visionary president and CEO Joni Alexander-Robinson, the two-day [โฆ]
Fox News Entertainment newsletter: Charles, William โfuriousโ over book; Harry, Meghanโs motives unclear
The Fox News Entertainment Newsletter brings you the latest Hollywood headlines, celebrity interviews and stories from Los Angeles and beyond.
Texas Tenors set to open Entertainment Series at the Whatley Center on October 20
September 29, 2026 Three powerhouse voices spanning country, classical, Broadway and pop will take the Whatley Center stage when The Texas Tenors perform Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. The Texas Tenors โ JC Fisher, Marcus Collins and John Hagen โ first gained national attention as finalists on NBCโs Americaโs Got Talent in 2009. Since then,โฆ
Studying Science in an Anti-Scientific Time
This Chronicle Review Deep Cut was first published in 2025. By Julianne Werlin Thanks for reading The Chronicle Review! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe The last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the โscience warsโ of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science โ who had long argued that science had to be understood in its human context โ were encountering the funhouse-mirror version of their own views in right-wing critiques of climate scientists. It was enough to give some prominent scholars pause. โWas I wrong to participate in the invention of this field known as science studies?โ asked Bruno Latour, the most famous sociologist of science in the world, in 2003. โShould we apologize for having been wrong all along? Or should we rather bring the sword of criticism to criticism itself and do a bit of soul-searching here: What were we really after when we were so intent on showing the social construction of scientific facts?โ In response, Latour proposed a change of method and attitude. Science studies, now chastened and contrite, would no longer seek to strip facts of their authority, but to enrich and enhance them. What this meant in practice was never fully clear. But his diagnosis of problems resonated, even if his solutions did not. Latourโs exercise in public hand-wringing signaled a shift in mood. By 2016, with the first election of Donald Trump, the idea that skepticism of science was a right-wing position, not a left-wing one, had become a commonplace, discussed eagerly in The New York Times. For liberals, vaccine denial during the Covid era and Trumpโs second-term attacks on the funding of scientific research, covered extensively in these pages, added a new urgency to the defense of science on both practical and principled grounds. There was little appetite for a sociology or philosophy of science that emphasized the messiness and missteps of the scientific process rather than its integrity and triumphs. The distinguished historian of science Peter Dearโs new book, The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science (Princeton University Press, 2025), which seeks to tell the story of 18th- and 19th-century science for a general public, may seem comfortably remote from these bitter contests. In its 16 short chapters, Dear draws swift, sure sketches of major discoveries from Newton to Einstein, ably guiding the reader through debates on stellar nebulae, animal taxonomy, atomic chemistry, evolution, and other flashpoints in the history of science. But though a work of history, Dearโs book must still negotiate our polarized present. In a blurb on its back cover, the historian of biology Lynn K. Nyhart alludes to the โpresent moment, when scientific knowledge is being swamped by misinformation and its institutions are under siege.โ Dear himself, in his conclusion, refers to the โyard signsโ and โbumper stickersโ that proclaim โScience Is Real.โ One antidote to both anti-science propaganda and to reductive slogans in scienceโs defense is a robust history and philosophy of science: exactly what Dearโs scholarship has long offered. But his new book illustrates how difficult such work has become. Dear, an emeritus professor of history at Cornell University, is best known as a creative and philosophically minded historian of the Scientific Revolution. His edited volume The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument (1991) analyzed the rhetoric of Galileoโs thought experiments to brilliant effect. Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution (1995) was a major contribution to the analysis of scientific experiments in early modern Europe and beyond, while Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge in Transition, 1500-1700 (2001), now in its third edition, remains one of the best overviews of the profound epistemological upheavals of 16th- and 17th-century science. But Dear has also ventured into later periods. Nearly two decades ago, in The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World (2006), he turned to the 18th and 19th centuries to sketch a history and theory of scientific knowledge. Aimed at a generalist audience, Dearโs simple prose belied serious philosophical ambitions. Science, Dear argued, has two aspects: โnatural philosophy,โ the quest to understand the true nature of the universe, and โinstrumentality,โ the applied skills and technologies that allow us to manipulate the world for human advantage. Both strands are ancient, but the innovation of the phenomenon we call โscienceโ was to yoke them together. As Francis Bacon wrote, โHuman knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known, the effect cannot be produced,โ an insight typically abridged to โknowledge is power.โ Or, in Bertrand Russellโs characteristically blunt phrase, science has two functions, โ1. to enable us to know things, and 2., to enable us to do things.โ So far, so conventional. But Dear took issue with this familiar story in one respect. Baconโs formula implied that theory and practice could be fused in a single method. In fact, Dear argued, the quest to understand nature and the desire to manipulate it were coupled only loosely. They could come together, but they could also pull apart. Focusing on natural philosophy, the โknowingโ half of the scientific circle, he used a series of case studies from cosmology, taxonomy, chemistry, electromagnetism, and quantum theory to show how theories changed over time, in dialogue with practice, but never reducible to it. Take the case of matter, the basic substrate of the physical world. In the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists not only disagreed about what it was, but also about how well it could be known. In 1789, the chemist Antoine Lavoisier dismissed speculation about the atomic composition of chemicals as โdiscussions entirely of a metaphysical nature,โ as he sought to orient chemistry away from philosophical abstraction and toward laboratory results. But in the 19th century, atoms returned with a vengeance in the atomic chemistry of John Dalton, who wanted to explain the underlying structure of nature. It was not just that Dalton and Lavoisier had a different set of experimental results, or even a different theory, Dear showed. What counted as an explanation had changed. In arguing that scientific theories depended on their intelligibility to human beings with complex arrays of beliefs and commitments, Dear was in sympathy with science studies. Key figures such as the sociologist Steven Shapin emphasized the importance of psychological mechanisms like trust in the formation and acceptance of scientific ideas. But in focusing on the scientific pursuit of knowledge, not its politics or economics, Dear resisted the more cynical perspective of some of his colleagues. The Intelligibility of Nature strikes a very different note than Shapinโs collection of a few years later, Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People With Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority (2010), to name just one example. Walking a very fine line, Dear depicted science as driven at once by complex social dynamics and by the intellectual power of real discoveries. It was a testament not only to his own acumen but also to the vitality of the field that he was able to do so. Nearly two decades later, The World as We Know It returns to the questions broached in The Intelligibility of Nature. Like Dearโs earlier study, it begins with the Newtonian cosmos and ends with debates between Einstein and Bohr on quantum physics. Beyond its terminal figures, many of the same characters appear in both studies, including the naturalists John Ray and the Comte de Buffon; the chemists รtienne Franรงois Geoffroy, Antoine Lavoisier, and John Dalton; as well as Charles Darwin and Michael Faraday, among others. Its subject is nearly identical: As in The Intelligibility of Nature, The World as We Know It considers natural philosophy as opposed to instrumentality, here defined as the โdesire to create a picture of what the world is really like โ the world as God knows it โ rather than simply having instrumental or operational control over it.โ The two books also overlap in insights โ and sometimes even in language. The reader who has learned in The Intelligibility of Nature that Buffonโs method of classifying animals โreflected his belief in the importance of the senses and empiricism in learning about nature (a doctrine associated with Newton and the philosopher John Locke)โ will experience a sense of dรฉjร vu on reading, in The World as We Know It, that the classification โreflects Buffonโs commitment to the epistemological stance of Newton and his philosophical underlaborer John Locke, who stressed the role of the senses in creating natural knowledge.โ Later in the passage, we read that, โbecause of its stress on understanding the ways of life of animals in their environments, Bu๏ฌonโs approach could almost be labeled (anachronistically) as โecological.โโ And again, โan anachronistic way of putting it would be to say that Buffon recommends an ecological mode of understanding.โ Likewise, in The Intelligibility of Nature we read of Dalton that he was initially drawn to meteorology, and that: He did a bit of experimental work on these things, especially having to do with the water-holding capacity of gases, but his real interest lay in understanding what, at an underlying natural-philosophical level, was really going on physically.โ Whereas, in The World as We Know It: He did experimental work on these things, especially concerning the water-holding capacity of gases โ although not at a very refined level quantitatively โ but he was continually trying to develop a theoretical conception of what was happening physically. The final full chapter of each book closes on the same resigned note. Intelligibility: These days, most serious work on the natural philosophical underpinnings and implications of quantum mechanics is performed not by physicists but by philosophers of science. Among scientific practitioners themselves, Bohrโs attempt to use instrumentality as su๏ฌcient grounds for a respectable science has met with a high degree of success. And again, in The World as We Know It: Bohrโs and Einsteinโs concerns are now questions that are mostly discussed by philosophers of science rather than by physicists themselves. The marginalization of these sorts of questions amounts to the demise of natural philosophy, at least in physics, in the 20th century. Quantum mechanics โworks,โ and thatโs good enough for most scientists who encounter it. Examples could be multiplied. When handling the same subject matter, some echoes are inevitable. Scholars should not feel that because they have written โIsaac Newton died in 1727โ in one book, in the next they must describe him as perishing, expiring, or meeting his maker. But the repetitions of language and arguments (not to mention six reproduced images) threaded throughout The World as We Know It are more extensive than that. They should have been caught by Princeton University Press or its reviewers, and revised. Because the two books have so much in common, it is easy to see where they diverge. The World as We Know It is a less theoretical work than its predecessor. The sociology of knowledge that organized The Intelligibility of Nature has been reduced in scale and folded into readings and examples. The taut interplay between history and theory, which gave the earlier study so much interest, is there, but it is subtle. In the earlier book, the case studies demonstrated theoretical claims about the character and development of science. In the later work, each narrative of discovery is an end in itself. Insights emerge from the history, but they do not control the organization of the study. With the theory muted, it can be hard to understand the logic uniting Dearโs sprawling history of more than two centuries of scientific knowledge. The 16 brisk chapters cover an enormous amount of material. But the closer the volume edges to comprehensiveness, the more obvious the missing elements become. A chapter on โInstitutions and Pedagogy,โ describing the birth of the research university, illustrates the problem. Inserted roughly halfway through the book, the unnumbered chapter is designed as an โentrโacte,โ in acknowledgement that it does not fit the studyโs organization around scientific discoveries. Yet as Dear is well aware, no general history of the development of modern science can bracket its 19th-century institutionalization and professionalization. It was the 19th-century university, after all, that gave us the โscientist,โ a term coined by the Cambridge philosopher William Whewell. Dearโs history of scientific discoveries implies a wider social and institutional history, but it remains largely subterranean, only occasionally extruded under the pressure of the narrative. It must be said that the balance is not all on the side of the earlier study. There are some advantages to the more historical, less theoretical organization of The World as We Know It. Dearโs accounts of paradigm shifts are remarkably lucid, no small accomplishment given that they span fields and centuries. He makes excellent use of the wealth of new scholarship on Darwin and his influences, to which he has himself contributed. It is satisfying to see puzzle pieces from Buffonโs natural history, Georges Cuvierโs animal taxonomy, Thomas Robert Malthusโs demography, and Charles Lyellโs geology recombined seamlessly in the Darwinian jigsaw. Likewise, Dearโs discussion of stellar nebulae, divided between chapters two and 15, shows vividly how Newton, Kant, Herschel, and Hubble reimagined insights and observations as they sought to discover whether the diffuse light that filtered through early telescopes was a glowing, gaseous substance or discrete but distant stars. Yet despite such pleasures, the book remains a more modest work than The Intelligibility of Nature. Dear has clearly not changed his views about the history of science. But in the two decades that have elapsed, the discipline and the world around it have changed, making it harder to write a sociologically and philosophically ambitious history of science for the general reader. That is a shame, because in the age of Silicon Valley and biotechnology, both the reciprocity and the tensions Dear identified between the epistemological and instrumental ambitions of science are more evident than ever. In recent years, some of the most exciting new books on the history of science in early modernity have focused precisely on this pressure point. Important studies such as Pamela H. Smithโs From Lived Experience to the Written Word (2022), James Poskettโs Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science (2022), and Vera Kellerโs The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge (2023) all shed new light on how early modern science negotiated the relationship between its instrumental and epistemological ambitions, or in Russellโs phrase, knowing and doing. There is every opportunity for a philosophically informed approach to draw new insights from this wealth of material. Dear, unfortunately, has not done so in The World as We Know It. But for future scholars of the history of science, his body of work over nearly four decades may provide just the model. Julianne Werlin is an associate professor of English at Duke University. 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Africa Business and Human Rights Forum Concludes in Dakar with Call for Stronger Action on Human Rights and the Environment
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As billionaires become a popular political target, a new book urges Washington not to lose sight of a much larger, and quieter, group of wealthy business owners.
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Ten bucks says youโll love this community science project
Today marks the first day of Rut Watch 2026 With another season of Deer Spy in the books thanks to community scientists like you, biologists are now on a mission to pinpoint the peak of the white-tailed deer breeding season in Maine. Every observation of deer breeding behavior and sign helps define the timing of the rut, and this project uses the power of community science to collect deer data all fall long. Hunters, hikers, and wildlife watchers - Rut Watch pairs well with any outdoor adventure you have planned this season. Itโs a perfect excuse to slow down and connect with nature as you look for clues. So get outside, rack up that deer data and submit rut reports from now through December 1. The online form is science made simple: Location Date and time Breeding behavior observed Submit a Rut Report What to watch for Active Breeding The most obvious breeding behavior to observe is a buck mounting a doe, but that is a rare sight as it only lasts a moment. You are more likely to witness a buck โtendingโ a doe, following closely, chasing, nuzzling, or pawing at her rump until she is receptive. Sparring After bucks shed their velvet, sparring helps sort out who is who in the dominance hierarchy. Early season matches are often less intense than later season matches between similar sized bucks. Most sparring is complete by the time breeding begins. Rubs Donโt just look for deer, pay attention to the trees. Rubs are marks made by bucks when they rub their antlers on trees, removing bark and leaving their scent calling card in the process. Scrapes Look to the forest floor for this sign of breeding season behavior. Scrapes consist of two parts - a licking branch, and a patch of cleared earth. Bucks break a low branch around head height, then paw at the leaves below to expose the dirt. Covered in scent, a scrape tells does and other bucks, โIโm here!โ Learn More More information Whatโs next for deer community science: Northern Maine Wintering Deer Survey Other active community science projects: Fish Tag Reporting Maine Golden Eagle Study Maine Amphibian & Reptile Atlas Project Maine Deer Management: Maineโs Big Game Management Plan Game Species Conservation & Management Report The Benefits of Hunting: Supporting Wildlife, Conservation, and Community Subscribe Share Leave a comment
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