Peter Barker

The national missile defense fantasy—again The only way to eliminate the threat of nuclear-armed missiles is to negotiate their elimination—not pretend some magic shield can protect against them.

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Please add me to your starter pack if you still have room. I am interested in early modern women in the sciences (broadly understood) but also the Safavid and early Mughal empires.

Thanks so much for this list. I’d love to be added.

Interview: Science historian Naomi Oreskes schools the Supreme Court on climate change When the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970, scientists and lawmakers already knew that carbon dioxide was warming the planet, and that regulating emissions could have wide-ranging economic impacts.

Truth, Science and the Supreme Court

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What a great story to be able to add to my undergraduate lectures - Rutherford’s first student was a woman, and they discovered Radon together!