The Giant's Shoulders

A Bumper Crop: Giants’ Shoulders #59

thonyc — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:12:26 +0000

After a long and, at times, bitter winter spring has finally sprung in the northern hemisphere. Everywhere plants, trees and bushes are exploding into bloom and the birds and the bees are doing their fertility dances in the sparkling sunshine.

The last month has also produced a bumper crop of history of science, technology and medicine goodies that ane pixestos has harvested for you and presented in appetising form on her Something by Virtue of Nothing blog. The Whitsuntide holiday is coming up so settle back click on a link and enjoy the best in STEM history that the Internet has to offer in the Giants’ Shoulders #59 blog carnival.

Next month Giants’ Shoulders completes five years of collecting and presenting the best of Internet STEM history bloggage for your delectation. To celebrate I shall be hosting Giants’ Shoulders #60 here at The Renaissance Mathematicus on 16 June 2013. Submission should be made to me here at RM or to @rmathematicus on Twitter by 15 June at the latest.

If you would like to help Giants’ Shoulders to continue into a sixth year of existence we need, as always, willing blog owners to act as hosts. If you would like to host a future edition of the greatest STEM history blog carnival this side of Alpha Centauri then contact me as above.

Get those submission in for Giant’s Shoulders #59!

thonyc — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:50:15 +0000

Time flies! It seems to me that we have only just finished perusing the excellent Giant’s Shoulders #58 at Asylum Science and now there are only three days left to submit those history of science, history of technology and history of medicine post for this month’s history of science blog carnival Giant’s Shoulders #59.

Giant’s Shoulders #59 is being hosted at Something by Virtue of Nothing and submission can be made either direct to the host or to me here at the Renaissance Mathematicus.

Giant’s Shoulders #58

thonyc — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:35:45 +0000

The good folks at Asylum Science, Mike Finn (@theselflessmeme) and Jen Wallis, have put together a truly excellent selection of the month’s best history of science, technology and medicine bloggage for the fifty-eighth edition of the Giants’ Shoulders blog carnival. So why don’t you go on over and read your fill?

Next month’s history of science, technology and medicine post will be collected for Giant’s Shoulders #59 by Kata Pushin on her Something by Virtue of Nothing blog on 16th May 2013. So submit those world-changing posts by 15th May at the latest either directly to the host or to me here at The Renaissance Mathematicus or to Dr SkySkull at Skull in the Stars.

As always Giant’s Shoulders is on the lookout for bloggers eager to host the world’s one and only history of science blog carnival so if you think you are up to the job then please contact me here. Let’s see if we can fill 2013!

Giants’ Shoulders #57 conquers the Science Museum

thonyc — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:29:40 +0000

The history of science blog carnival “From blazing skies to bogus shamrock Giants’ Shoulders #57” has been posted by this month’s host Alison Boyle (@ali_boyle) on the Science Museum Blog. As the title suggest we have, as always, a wide spectrum of the best of the last months #histsci bloggage so pop on over and enjoy.

Next months history of science blog carnival Giants’ Shoulders #58 will be hosted by Mike Finn and Jen Wallis at the Asylum Science Blog on 16^th April. Submissions, as always, either direct to the hosts or to me here at the Renaissance Mathematicus till the 15th April.

Just three days left for that killer #histsci post!

thonyc — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:42:44 +0000

Some guys with purple hats in a locked room with a painted ceiling are nominating a man whose gonna wear red shoes, we’re looking for the best history of science bloggage from the last month.

You have just three days to submit your favourite #histsci posts for Giants’ Shoulders #57 the history of science blog carnival hosted by Ali Boyle (@ali_boyle) at the Science Museum Blog on 16^th March 2013.

You can make your submissions either direct to the host or to me here at the Renaissance Mathematicus until the 15^th March.

Giants’ Shoulders #56 The Giant Edition

thonyc — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:20:11 +0000

Michael Barton (@darwinsbulldog) has posted a positively gigantic edition of Giants’ Shoulders the history of science blog carnival on his blog The Dispersal of Darwin. It contains enough good bloggage to keep you reading until the next Giants’ Shoulders appears in a month’s time.

Giants’ Shoulders #57 will be hosted by Alison Boyle (@ali_boyle) on the Science Museum Blog on 16^th March. Submission should as always be made direct to the host or to me here at The Renaissance Mathematicus or to Dr SkySkull at Skull in the Stars by 15^th March at the latest.

We have a host for April but after that Giants’ Shoulders will again be an orphan searching for a kindly host on a friendly blog. If you can offer the best history of science blog carnival a home for a month then please contact me here.

The Giant’s Shoulders #56 is out!

skullsinthestars — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 01:30:06 +0000

The 56th edition of the history of science blog carnival, The Giant’s Shoulders, is up at The Dispersal of Darwin! In this edition, you can read about:

How a (sort of) believer in ancient astronauts almost became U.S. President,
The searchers of the dead: the unappreciated 16th people who collected and inspected the bodies of plague victims,
Forgeries, lies, and deception in history,
Charles Darwin’s geological studies,
Macaque and dagger in the simian space race: how espionage and science crossed paths in early space exploration,
and much more!

Many thanks to Michael Barton for putting together a really interesting and large carnival!

We’re still looking for more hosts for the carnival, but next month I will host The Giant’s Shoulders at my home blog Skulls in the Stars, posting on the 16th! Submissions can be sent directly to me via email, blog comment, or twitter.

Carnivals

thonyc — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:36:09 +0000

Giants’ Shoulders #56 the history of science blog carnival is being hosted by Michael Barton @darwinsbulldog at The Dispersal of Darwin on 16^th February. Submit your favourite #histsci, #histtech & #histmed post to the host or @drskyskull or to me here at RM by the 15^th February.

As always Giants’ Shoulders needs new hosts. If you have a blog and want to host the best history of science blog carnival since the beginning of time then contact me here at RM.

I’m stepping out of my self-imposed boundaries on March 9^th and am hosting Carnivalesque the interdisciplinary blog carnival dedicated to pre-modern history (to c. 1800 C.E.) here at The Renaissance Mathematicus. If you have an interesting history post for Carnivalesque then you can submit it here.

Curiosities, Utilities and Authority – Giants’ Shoulders #55

thonyc — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:40:18 +0000

The 55^th edition of the history of science blog carnival Giants’ Shoulders, “Curiosities, Utilities and Authority”, has been posted by this month’s host Lisa Smith (@historybeagle) at The Sloanes Letters Blog. So mosey on over and read Lisa’s selection of the last month’s best history of science, history of medicine and history of technology bloggage. It’s really worth your while.

Next month’s Giants’ Shoulders #56 will be hosted by Michael Barton (@darwinsbulldog) at his The Dispersal of Darwin blog on 16 February. Submissions as usual either direct to the host or to me here at RM by 15 February.

As always Giants’ Shoulders NEEDS YOU! If you would like the honour of hosting a future edition of the universe’s numero uno history of science blog carnival then please contact me here at RM.

Giants Shoulders #55: Three Days Left!

thonyc — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:26:07 +0000

You have just three days to submit those #histsci, #histmed and #histtech blog posts to the history of science blog carnival Giants Shoulders’ #55 which will be hosted by Lisa Smith (@historybeagle) at The Sloane Letters Blog on 16^th January.

You can make your submission either directly to the host or to me here at the Renaissance Mathematicus.

Giants Shoulders’, as always needs future hosts. If you desire to host the world’s one and only history of science blog carnival then contact me here.