Pauling Collections Inspire Research on Nuclear History
The Oregon State University research magazine Terra carries an article by undergraduate student Ingrid Ockert, discussing the research of one of our advanced doctoral students, Linda Richards. “Nothing could have prepared Linda Richards for her visit to the Navajo Nation in 1986. The landscape was littered with piles of uranium debris. Signs warning of radioactive […]
Finley challenges the science of Maximum Sustainable Yield
Congratulations to Carmel Finley, who has published a new book that calls into question one of the longest standing concepts in fisheries and marine science. The book, All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management (Chicago, 2011), is the first sustained historical treatment of MSY in the United […]
Is it Wrong to Analyze Culture with Google Books?
Oregon State University’s Horning Professor in the Humanities, Anita Guerrini, levels a critique at recent work in the “digital humanities.” She writes, “Discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 million volumes of the Google Books project sure is amusing — but this pursuit dubbed ‘culturomics’ is not the same as being an […]
