Byline: Maura Burke
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On Trying: An Interview with Peter Galison
Peter Galison: I’m Peter Galison. I am a professor at Harvard University, where I’ve been for quite a while, and before that I taught at Stanford for about ten years. I grew up in New York City, and spent a year at École Polytechnique in Paris in a physics lab before I went to college.…
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Shells and Pebbles Summer Travel Tips
“It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.” – Henry James As this academic year comes to a close, our team of editors wanted to cultivate a tradition started last year of sending our readers off into the summer with something more personal. Last year, we offered recommendations for your…
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An Interview with Federica Russo: Integrated HPS in Practice
This is the second in our series of interviews with current historians and philosophers of science. In these interviews, our guests are asked to reflect on the current status of the field, how we might contribute to contemporary debates, what their own research interests are, and how these interests inform their worldview. In this interview…
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An Interview with Paul Ziche: History of Science Today
This is the first in our series of interviews with current historians and philosophers of science. In these interviews, our guests are asked to reflect on the current status of the field, how we might be able to contribute to contemporary debates, what their own research interests are, and how these interests inform their worldview.…
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Who needs 1500 words as a means of science communication?
If there is one thing that we, as a community of historians and philosophers of science and the humanities, are acutely aware of, it is that scientific practices are often intertwined with other practices such as artisanal or artistic practices. For many of us, the recognition of this intertwinement forms an important reference point in…
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Turning Tides: Flow
Dear readers, We are very happy to introduce ourselves as the new editorial team of Shells and Pebbles! With great enthusiasm we will be taking over from Jeroen, Iris, Jorrit and Sjang. First of all, we would like to thank the outgoing editors. We appreciate their work enormously and hope to carry on their legacy…