Émilie du Châtelet - An Essay On Heat - 1739 - #1 In 1739 the Paris Academy of Sciences proposed a question: what is fire?  A prize was offered for the best response. Entries were to be…

Science, history and a little detective work?  Yes, please!   Tony Lupo, professor and department chair of atmospheric sciences at the University of Missouri, and Mike Madden, a meteorology…

Other Suns, Other Colors     It seems to be a law of universal application that if a task is boring and low paid, it should be given to a woman.  Many of the women given such…

A Frael of Figs - or -A Handful of History If history consisted only in lists of the dates when "important people" did earth-shattering things such as kicking the bucket from a surfeit of…

The Posthumous Memoir of Ignaz Venetz #3 ... the voice of a faithful disciple of science is entitled to be heard. My continuing researches on the discovery of climate change show that prior to Ignaz…

The Posthumous Memoir of Ignaz Venetz This memoir was published by the Swiss Natural Sciences Society, shortly after the death of Ignaz Venetz, to honor his great contribution to science. For…

The Posthumous Memoir of Ignaz Venetz My  three part article on Venetz's prize-winning 1821 paper began with some facts tending to prove that he was the first person to discuss climate change…

Ignaz Venetz - Climate Change Pioneer - #3 There is no such thing as a perfect translation. En effet, on peut être utile sans atteindre à la perfection; Agenda, ou tableau général des Observations et…

The synthesis of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and biology, pursued in fits and starts over the years by an eccentric cast of thinkers, has produced a few scientific red herrings, but the overall…

As I wrote in Like Freedom? Thank A Scientist - How Science Made America Possible, during the meetings of the the Continental Congress during independence discussions, Thomas Jefferson noted the…