It is not known with any high degree of confidence whether the centaurs of London favoured pineapple and coconut based alcoholic beverages, frequented mock-Polynesian cocktail lounges, or sported immaculately maintained hairstyles, as did the more popularly known lycanthropes of that same city.
How do we read? How should we teach Children to read? How have the debates surrounding there questions contributed to the American culture wars and the rise of the anti-science movement? These are very important questions indeed, and ones that Prof. Adrian Johns takes up in discussing his new book “The Science of Reading” on the University of Chicago’s “Big Brains” podcast.
The New Books Network History of Science podcast channel recently released an interview by Dr. Morteza Hajizadeh of Dr. Laura R. Kremmel about her 2022 book “Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination; Morbid Anatomies.”
The New Books Network History of Science podcast channel recently released an interview by Dr. Morteza Hajizadeh of Prof. Al Coppola about his 2016 book “The Theater of Experiment; Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain.”