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This was a collaborative lecture between the Linnean Society and Oak Spring Garden Foundation. The talk explores a masterpiece of scientific illustration from one of natural history’s great female…

Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages

Since the later part of the twentieth century, ethnographic museums have come under increasing scrutiny, and many have reflected on and changed their presentation as they questioned collections so oft...

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Five years after a devastating fire, the Paris cathedral has finally reopened, with the help of a vast team of researchers

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Cardboard’s ubiquity rests on simple claims: I can hold that, and I can go there. But cardboard boxes hold a world of meaning — a global anatomy of commerce, consumption, disposal, and reuse.

The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annually awards the John Desmond Bernal Prize to one or more individuals who have made distinguished contribution...

Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.

Data & Society's Tamara Kneese explains her organization's support for the Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impacts Act of 2024.

Faculty and staff at the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge are operating under the assumption that they will be shut down.

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