Evan Hepler-Smith

Historian of science and technology @ Duke

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@ConorHBroderick @rebecca_altman Thanks, @ConorHBroderick (and thanks for the plug, @rebecca_altman!)

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@LiatSpiro @samgrinsell @pashulman @gustavelester Adam Romero’s new book discusses paraffin as pest control https://t.co/vQFYHNCTvt

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@GordinMichael @cwellmon @alexcsiszar @timelfen I am reminded here of Hannah Landecker piece on early 20th c. "industrial" biochemistry studies of metabolism (it's all about energy transfers) and later "post-industrial" metabolism studies (it's all about signaling).

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@GordinMichael @cwellmon @alexcsiszar @timelfen This would seem to be a model of progress rather more in keeping with science funding and professional evaluation policies just using publication numbers as a metric.

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@epopppp @MBarany @kevinbaker @Ethnography911 @davidcrespo @MaxLiboiron Like was Captain Planet even about the environment, really? It was just evil people, mostly weird-looking, doing terrible stuff involving brightly colored fluids for no reason. There's a Slums of Aspen style take on Captain Planet waiting to be written (American Studies thesis!)

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@epopppp @MBarany @kevinbaker @Ethnography911 @davidcrespo @MaxLiboiron I also wonder -- no joke -- about Captain Planet and the influence of toxic substances / toxic waste environmentalism as a go-to language for generalized good-and-evil moral characterization of stuff for early millennials.

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@ABalayannis Yes! There a way of reading much of the long-term history of chemistry as a story of ways of "oeconomic" valorization and circulation of waste. See among others https://t.co/M7LLfHecqO, https://t.co/yX8icFNpIL, https://t.co/aAhQmk0f4s, https://t.co/SNELD04Zz3

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My first history of science course in grad school and second history of science course ever! Brings me back to good times w/ @aAcciavatti_sc and @mmfajardoh and others. Can't wait to see the final verdict on when & how we're allowed to call historical figures "charlatans."