Performed and produced by Christopher Last, Casey Walruth & Jeffrey Tucker, this podcast constitutes a dramatic interpretation of Steven Shapin’s book ‘The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation.’ Intended as a parody of Charles Dicken’s literary classic ‘A Christmas Carol,’ Last, Walruth & Tucker tell the story of Ebeneezer Scrooge, a miserly old scientist who embarks on a mystical journey to learn the true-meaning of science. Visitations by the Ghosts of Science Past, Present & Future help Scrooge to see that the scientific life is not exactly what he thought it to be, and that scientists themselves are as human as the next man. Dramatic acting, excellent scripting and good-natured humor make this a presentation not to be missed.
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This is an interview with Harry Collins about the science wars and his book the one culture?: A Conversation About Science
Harry Collins is perhaps the most well-known sociologist of scientific knowledge in the world and is the author of a dozen books, including the famous Golem series, and over one-hundred peer-reviewed articles. The interview and script were prepared and conducted by Jeffrey Tucker and Rochelle Meyers.
Harry Collins
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This is a podcast about Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch golden Age by Harold J. Cook. Written by Denis Clayson, Emmett Florence, Greg Frangia, jeff Hawkins, Deon Humes and Scott Senior.
Harold J. Cook
Matters of Exchange
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This is an interview with Peter R. Saulson about his role in the “science wars” and his contributions to the one culture? “Peter R. Saulson is a physicist Who has worked on gravitational wave detection since 1981. He is the author of Fundamentals of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors (1994). On the faculty at Syracuse University since 1991, he spent 2000 helping commission the LIGO interferometer at Livingston, Lousiana.”
Peter R. Saulson
Fundamentals of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
Dr. Saulson’s publications
Syracuse University Gravitational Wave Group
Interview by students of Dr. Michael MacKay
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This is a podcast and interview of Jay A. Labinger about his book “the one culture?” that claims to have signified the end of the “science wars”. He “is a chemist by training and continues to be active in research in catalysis and organometallic chemistry. In the last eight years or so he has also become involved in areas encompassing broader issues of science and has written articles and spoken at meetings on science and literature, sociology of science, and history of science. His current position is administrator of the Beckman Institute at Caltech.”
For the one culture? http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=3613474
For Labinger: http://directory.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/search.cgi?searchtext=labinger
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This podcast places Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer in the boxing ring with Cassandra Pinnick to discuss to The Leviathan and the Air-Pump.
For Steven Shapin see http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/bios/shapin.html
For Simon Schaffer see http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/dept/schaffer.html
For Cassandra Pinnick see http://www.wku.edu/~cassandra.pinnick/
For The Leviathon and the Air-Pump see H-Net review http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=3996
and Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_and_the_Air-Pump
sounds by www.soundjay.com and www.audiosparx.com
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