News tagged with historians
A spoonful of sugar or a bitter blocker?
Dr Hannah Newton, an historian of science with an interest in how previous generations coped with childhood illness, digs up some 17th century tips for making medicine taste better and finds evidence for common ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Behavior of parent organisms may influence genes passed on to next generation
Timing is everything, and if there was ever a scientist whose legacy was tarnished by bad timing, it was Jean Baptiste Lamarck. The French naturalist lived from 1744 to 1829 - and published his own evolutionary theory decades ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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MtDNA tests trace all modern horses back to single ancestor 140,000 years ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- For many years archeologists and other scientists have debated the origins of the domesticated horse. Nailing down a time frame is important because many historians view the relationship between ...
Jan 31, 2012 |
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African stats 'a numbers game' -- study
(PhysOrg.com) -- International development and aid groups are making decisions and distributing funds to African nations based on national statistics that are incomplete and untrustworthy, says Simon Fraser University economic ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Tobacco industry dying? Not so fast, says Stanford expert
The cigarette industry is not dying. It continues to reap unimaginable profits. It's still winning lawsuits. And cigarettes still kill millions every year.
Dec 13, 2011 |
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X-ray techniques help art historians verify Rembrandt sketch
(PhysOrg.com) -- Advanced imaging technology from the Brookhaven Labs and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble has revealed an authentic Rembrandt self-portrait in an art authenticity ...
Dec 04, 2011 |
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NASA's Apollo 13 checklist sells for $390,000
A checklist used to guide the wounded Apollo 13 spacecraft home after the explosion that led to the famed "Houston, we've had a problem" call sold at auction in Texas Wednesday for just under $390,000.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Computer scientist cracks mysterious 'Copiale Cipher'
The manuscript seems straight out of fiction: a strange handwritten message in abstract symbols and Roman letters meticulously covering 105 yellowing pages, hidden in the depths of an academic archive.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 25, 2011 |
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The true story behind William Wallace’s rising against the English
(PhysOrg.com) -- For centuries historians have believed that the spark that led to the popular Scottish uprising against Edward I in 1297 was William Wallace’s killing of the English Sheriff of Lanark, ...
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Marcus Garvey movement owes large debt to Caribbean expats, historian finds
Conventional wisdom has long held that Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, which advocated racial self-help and the unity of the African diaspora, grew out of the heady political and cultural environment ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Historian follows the guns
The geo-political map of the world changed many times through the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries but historian Brian DeLay sees a fresh narrative to help make sense of this transformation. At the center ...
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Did William Wallace aspire to be King of Scotland?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Historians from the University of Glasgow have found evidence to show that, as far as the English were concerned, Scots patriot and hero William Wallace aspired to be King of Scotland.
May 16, 2011 |
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Psychologists ask how well -- or badly -- we remember together
Several years ago, Suparna Rajaram noticed a strange sort of contagion in a couple she was close to. One partner acquired dementia -- and the other lost the nourishing pleasures of joint reminiscence. "When the other person ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 27, 2011 |
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Who was afraid of Prince Rupert's dog?: The enduring power of seventeenth-century propaganda
Research by an historian at the University of Southampton has revealed how modern scholars have been led astray by a 350-year-old propaganda campaign.
Apr 27, 2011 |
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A match of climate and history
Ancient Roman poetry and climate science may seem to have little in common, but a recent collaboration between a Harvard historian and European climate scientists highlights the potential for the two fields ...
Apr 08, 2011 |
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