MIT Press’s New Environmental History book: The Contamination of the Earth
A History of Pollutions in the Industrial AgeCredit: The MIT Press Through the centuries, the march of economic progress has ...
Tag: History
UMD researcher highlights trends in consolidation of US agriculture with 35 years of data
Data show a steady shift to fewer and larger farming operations across crops, dairy, and livestockCredit: Edwin Remsberg, University of ...
5,000 years of history of domestic cats in Central Europe
Interdisciplinary studies in paleogenetics and archeozoologyCredit: Magdalena Krajcarz A loner and a hunter with highly developed territorial instincts, a cruel ...
Spinach on the ceiling
An autobiography by Martin Karplus, nobel laureate in chemistry (with over 200 illustrations)Credit: World Scientific Escaping war and living as ...
A loving ‘outsider’s’ bird’s eye-view of China’s transformation
World Scientific publishes 'China's Millennium Transformation, the Belt and Road Initiative,' an unusual book by Da Hsuan FengCredit: World Scientific ...
Disability history scholar’s new book tells story of ‘money, marriage, and madness’
Ms. Magazine included the book on its list of 'June 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us.'Credit: The University of ...
Beyond Singapore’s bicentennial
We need to do more than reminiscence historyCredit: World Scientific "This is a timely publication, which commenced as Singapore was ...
Biology in art: Genetic detectives ID microbes suspected of slowly ruining humanity’s treasures
DNA science may help restore, preserve historic works, unmask counterfeits; The trait elite baseball hitters share with Leonardo da Vinci: ...
Tomography studies of coins shed light on the history of Volga Bulgaria
Kazanites teamed up with nuclear researchers from Dubna to publish their resultsCredit: Kazan Federal University Kazan Federal University, Joint Institute ...
More than ‘Just Another (Chinese) City’
Architectural professor describes urban resilience as a critical study of developmentCredit: Eunice Seng How then does one write the spatial ...
Learning from history to fight against COVID-19
Grant awarded to MU researchers looks for similarities, differences between 1918 flu pandemic and COVID-19 pandemicCredit: Image courtesy of The ...
Radiocarbon dating pins date for construction of Uyghur complex to the year 777
Credit: Andrei Panin Dating archaeological objects precisely is difficult, even when using techniques such as radiocarbon dating. Using a recently ...
Childhood trauma affects the timing of motherhood
Credit: Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive Women who have experienced childhood trauma become mothers earlier than those with a more stable ...
Information technology played key role in growth of ancient civilizations
Credit: WSU When it comes to the great civilizations of human history, the pen really might have been mightier than ...
Female Gulf War combat veterans have persistent symptoms more than 25 years later
Credit: Augusta University photographer Kim Ratliff AUGUSTA, Ga. (May 25, 2020) - More than a quarter century after the Gulf ...
Carl Linnaeus’s household laid the foundation for his scientific work
Credit: Mikael Wallerstedt Without a wife and a well-functioning household, Carl Linnaeus would have had difficulty becoming the prominent scientist ...
Fulbright Board selects TTUHSC faculty member for scholar program
Prestigious award will allow Queen to make second trip to LatviaCredit: TTUHSC Courtney Queen, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the ...
Madagascar copal: New dating for an Antropocene ancient resin
This material is not a semi-fossilized resinCredit: Xavier Delclòs (UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA-IRBio) The known Madagascar copal is a more recent ...
Beads made of boa bones identified in lesser Antilles
The first identifications of Boa on Martinique, Basse-Terre and La Désirade islands point to the snake's significance for pre-Columbian AmerindiansCredit: ...
Cahokia’s rise parallels onset of corn agriculture
Credit: Graphic by Diana Yates CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Corn cultivation spread from Mesoamerica to what is now the American Southwest ...