Science Explainers in the Age of Covid
Recently I wrote for GESIS on the history of science communication and popularized science. It’s an interesting question when the practice started. As wit...
Recently I wrote for GESIS on the history of science communication and popularized science. It’s an interesting question when the practice started. As wit...
Recently, I put together a few Twitter threads on my experience with teaching online. (You can find general thoughts here, and a longer thread on the technical ...
“There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss” begins a memorable passage...
Morgens die Pressekonferenz des Robert Koch-Instituts, mittags Nachrichten mit allerlei gesammelten Statements aus Ministerien, Ländern, Städten. Am Abend spric...
In August, I posted a long thread on Twitter regarding the problem of bad-faith distortions of history. It was set off by an especially egregious statement by D...
Tom There’s writers in there like Pynchon. But if he were a realist. There’s thorough knowledge of American history and the people who wrote it down...
The future would be brilliant, glowing, and rich in color. The future would be lifelike on the screen as much as off. The future, Hollywood attempted – and atte...
Easter saw me returning from a trip across Europe for two back-to-back conferences, the biannual conference of the International Association of Inter-American S...
You may have landed here because you were looking for me on the internet. If you looked for me on Facebook, you may have noticed I’m not there. I’ve...
Lutz Becker and Gunnar Sohn of #KönigVonDeutschland, a podcast about the many sides of, and issues related to the concept of utopia, recently spoke with me. The...