Joule’s Great Paddlewheel Experiment
About Joule, the American Physical Society says in “December 1840: Joule’s abstract on converting mechanical power into heat” (This Month in History in the APS …
History
CCERP Podcast Episode 31 Historian Tim Seiter on Local Native American History
Also available on many, many podcast apps, as well as free on Audible, Amazon, and YouTube. Show description: “In this episode, Tim discusses:-his background-the importance, …
Afternotes From a Meeting (23Jan2022)
1. I recommend reading and analyzing The Soul of a Horse by Joe Camp for its structure, for the thinking skills and logic implicit in it, for …
Reckless
Wow. What a horse. She was promoted to Staff Sergeant, earned two Purple Hearts, and more. In “She wasn’t a horse – She was a …
The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American Aviation by Quentin Reynolds
This book does a good job of showing — in a general, introductory way — the inductions the Wright Brothers made and the skills they …
Scurvy: An Example of Science vs. the Scientific Community
In “Scott and Scurvy” (Idle Words, 6 March 2010), Maciej Cegłowski writes: One of the most striking features of the disease is the disproportion between …