The most recent iteration of The Atlantic brings us a fantastic look into how one scientist felt about the new work presented by some rabble-rouser named Charles Darwin.
Isn’t perspective a fine thing?
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The Political Animal by Robert Pinsonneault
Where the science bear goes through the political buckwheat
Interesting. I’ll take a look at the full article later, but my eyebrows were raised by the phrase “The scientific reading in which we indulge as a relaxation from severer studies”. I wonder, was that a general attitude at the time amongst learned people – that science is a recreational, easy subject?