The History of Science Santa is early this year: Giants’ Shoulders #54 “A Sleigh Load of History” is up.

December’s host Michelle Ziegler, the history of science Santa, has put together a massive sleigh load of #histsci goodies at her blog Contagions in Giants’ Shoulders #54 to see you through the holiday season. So when you’ve polished off the goose and the plum pudding settle back with that box of pralines and enjoy the fruits of the best history of science bloggage from the last month. By the way Michelle is celebrating her third bloggaversary with this edition of Giants’ Shoulders so go on over and congratulate her on three years of excellent #histmed blogging.

Lisa Smith (@historybeagle) will take the history of science blog carnival into the New Year with Giants’ Shoulders #55 hosted on her The Sloane Letters Blog (that’s Sir Hans Sloane founder of the British Museum) on 16^th January 2013. Always assuming that the apocalypse doesn’t take place next Friday. Submissions as always either direct to the host, or to Dr SkySkull at Skulls in the Stars or to me here at RM.

Giants’ Shoulders The Apocalypse Edition

Apparently the world is going to end on 21^st December, if this is the case you have just two days to submit those posts to the last ever history of science blog carnival Giants’ Shoulder # 54. Let’s close out the world with a super carnival, submissions to the host Michelle Ziegler at her Contagions blog or to me here at RM.

The Curious Edition of Giants’ Shoulders

Need some #histsci reading matter? Then pop on over to The Scicurios Brain at Scientific American Blogs where the one and only Scicurious has put together the 53^rd edition of Giants’ Shoulders the history of science blog carnival.

The 54^th edition will be hosted by Michelle Ziegler at her Contagions blog on 16^th December 2012. Submissions as always by the 15^th of the month either direct to the host, to me here at The Renaissance Mathematicus or to Dr SkySkull at Skulls in the Stars.

Also, as always, Giants’ Shoulders is looking for new hosts beginning in February 2013. If you would like to host the best history of science blog in cyberspace then get in touch with me here. I look forward to hearing from you.

The Giant’s Shoulders #53 is out!

The 53rd edition of The Giant’s Shoulders history of science blog carnival has appeared at The Scicurious Brain!  In this edition, you can read about:

• How politics and hurricanes have collided as far back as the 1600s,
• The historical “invasion of the body snatchers” epidemic!
• THE HORRIFIC CARNIVOROUS MASTODON (that never existed),
• and much more!

Many thanks to Scicurious for putting together an excellent and lovely edition of the carnival!

The next edition will be posted on December 16th at the Contagions blog, and as always entries can be submitted to the carnival organizers (Skulls in the Stars or Renaissance Mathematicus) or directly to the carnival host.

Just three days left to submit those #HistSci gems!

You only have three days left to submit your history of science blog posts for Giants Shoulders #53 the one and only history of science blog carnival, which will be hosted by Scicurious at her blog The Scicurious Brain on the 16th of November.

Submissions can be made either direct to me here at The Renaissance Mathematicus or to the host at her blog. Get those #histsci, #histtech & #histmed submission in: Giants’ Shoulders need you and you #histsci posts.

The Heroic #52 Edition of Giants’ Shoulders is up.

Heroes, Anti-heroes, No more heroes, “Loads More Heroes” the heroic #52 edition of The Giants’ Shoulders history of science blog carnival has been posted by Mr. “Friends of Darwin” himself, Richard Carter at his The Friends of Charles Darwin blog.

Go and find what heroic acts of bloggage have been perpetrated in the Intertubes in the last thirty days. Read about alchemical distillation in cookbooks, the astrological causes of syphilis, petrified legs, villains of biology and much, much more from the annals of history of science.

The next history of science blog carnival Giants’ Shoulders #53 will be hosted by Scicurious at her The Scicurious Brain blog on 16^th November, submission as always by the 15^th of the month. Submission can be made directly to the host or to me here at the Renaissance Mathematicus or Dr. SkySkull at Skull in the Stars.

Giants’ Shoulders scores a first!

We have a first! The Giants’ Shoulders history of science blog carnival for September is on The Scientific American Blog Network for the first time ever. The Internet’s best historian of geology, David Bressan, has hosted Giants’ Shoulders #51 on his History of Geology Blog at SciAm. So go over there and enjoy the best histsci bloggage from the last month.

Next month Giants’ Shoulders #52 will be hosted by the Internet’s best friend of Darwin, Richard Carter at The Friends of Charles Darwin Blog on 16^th October. Submission, as usual by 15^th October, either direct to the host or to me here or to Dr Skyskull at Skulls in the Stars.

 

The Giant’s Shoulders #51 is out! Tales of Patriotic Science-Nerds, Vortex Cannons and Nuking the Goat

The 51st edition of The Giant’s Shoulders is up at the History of Geology blog!  As its title suggests, within the carnival you can read about:

• Patriotic science nerd Thomas Jefferson, who defended America’s biological honor with a moose,
• A very old physics demonstration which has led to some unusual possible applications: the vortex cannon,
• The role of neurotic goats as test subjects in early nuclear testing,
• And much more!

Many thanks to David Bressan for taking the time to host and put together an excellent history of science blog carnival!

The next edition will be hosted on October 16 at the Friends of Darwin blog.  Entries can be submitted to the carnival managers, myself (Dr. SkySkull) or ThonyC via email, or directly to the carnival host, by the 15th of October.

The Giants’ Shoulders turns fifty.

History of aural medicine blogger Jai Virdi has put together the fiftieth edition of the history of science blog carnival The Giants’ Shoulders and a real humdinger it is too. If you want to read the very best in #histsci #histmed and #histtech bloggage from the last month then hurry on over to Jai’s blog From the Hands of Quacks and get stuck in but take plenty of time with you because she created a cornucopia of history of science goodness.

The Giants’ Shoulders #51 will be hosted by historian of geology David Bressan at his History of Geology blog at Scientific American Blogs on the 16^th September 2012. Submissions either direct to the host or to me here at The Renaissance Mathematicus or to Dr SkySkull at Skulls in the Stars by the 15^th of September at the latest.

The future of The Giants’ Shoulders is secured for the rest of this year and into the next with Richard Carter hosting at his Friends of Darwin blog in October, Scicurious hosting at her blog at Scientific American in November, Michelle Ziegler hosting at Contagions in December and Lisa Smith The History Beagle bringing in the New Year in January. However if it is to continue The Giants’ Shoulders will need new hosts in the months that follow so if you blog about the history of science or technology or medicine or have a blog and are just interested in these fields you too could host a carnival. If you are willing and able then please contact me, Thony C, here at The Renaissance Mathematicus and let see if we can fill the other half-century!

Just six days left to make those submissions for Giants’ Shoulders #50

The half-century edition of Giants’ Shoulders the history of science blog carnival will be hosted by Jai Virdi at From the Hands of Quacks on 16^th August. This means that you have just six days to submit the best of histsci, histmed and histtech bloggage from the last month. You can either make your submissions to me here or direct to Jai. Help to make this a special celebration history of science on the Internet.