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Self Aggrandizement Alert: More cool Newton and the Counterfeiter talk: Chris Lydon/RadioOpenSource edition1 comment

Tom wrote 3 months ago: Old friend and former WGBH-mate Chris Lydon, now the creative intelligence behind one of the web … more →

Tags: self-aggrandizement, Big Ideas, Newton and the Counterfeiter

Friday Isaac Newton Blogging: How nice it is to be wrong, Newton and the South Sea Bubble Edition4 comments

Tom wrote 4 months ago: One of the great pleasures of the writing life is the stuff you learn.  There is the material that y … more →

Tags: History, Isaac Newton, History of Science, Newton and the Counterfeiter

Another Newton and the Counterfeiter note: I like Carl Zimmer's taste in books/Nature department2 comments

Tom wrote 4 months ago: Nothing is as satisfying as the praise of one’s colleagues — especially the really good … more →

Tags: Good Books, Isaac Newton, good public communication of science, self-aggrandizement, Good Writing, Newton and the Counterfeiter

Diary of Trade Book (Newton and the Counterfeiter) 12.0: Publicity in the post MSM era3 comments

Tom wrote 5 months ago: (Editor’s note:  Go here for the last entry in this diary, and search “diary” in t … more →

Tags: Good Books, Isaac Newton, self-aggrandizement, Newton and the Counterfeiter

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verticalclimax wrote 5 months ago: “Nu poți să primești totul fără să dai nimic înapoi …” este exact replica prin car … more →

Tags: Recomandările medicului, film, DOCUMENTAR, Teoría, echilibrului, echilibru, Lege, legea, conservarii

For a Good Time in Second Life....1 comment

Tom wrote 5 months ago: Go to the Nature Publishing Group Island in Second Life where, at 10 Pacific Time, 1 Eastern Time, I … more →

Tags: self-aggrandizement, Cool Tech, Newton and the Counterfeiter, Second-Life

Diary of a Trade Book (Newton and the Counterfeiter) 9.1: Voices in my head, or why Neal Stephenson has to stop talking to me.

Tom wrote 6 months ago: Just a little story here.  Last post I talked about getting blurbs from busy and very accomplished f … more →

Tags: Good Books, Isaac Newton, writing, History of Science, Good Writing, Newton and the Counterfeiter, Neal Stephenson, Baroque Cycle

What I Said -- but from someone who knows what he's talking about: Isaac Newton and Money Manias edition4 comments

Tom wrote 6 months ago: Readers of this blog may have noticed that I recently published a book (ya’ think? –ed.) … more →

Tags: History, Isaac Newton, self-aggrandizement, Economic follies, Newton and the Counterfeiter, Economics, Paul Samuelson, bubbles, South Sea

Sighting: Newton and the Counterfeiter Second Review4 comments

Tom wrote 7 months ago: A few days ago I had happy occasion to tout the first review of my upcoming Newton and the Counterfe … more →

Tags: science writing, Good Books, Isaac Newton, writing, Scientific Revolution, History of Science, self-aggrandizement

Sighting: Newton and the Countefeiter First Review 4 comments

Tom wrote 8 months ago: As readers of this blog no doubt know too well by this point, I’m on the verge of publishing a … more →

Tags: science writing, Good Books, Isaac Newton, writing, self-aggrandizement

Friday Isaac Newton Blogging: Nick Montfort Cell Phone Fiction Edition

Tom wrote 8 months ago: Nick Montfort, my prolific colleague in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT, is pre … more →

Tags: Art and Science, Isaac Newton, Big Ideas, Good Writing, Nick Montfort, New Writing, Good Stuff, mobile phone art

Friday (Isaac) Newton blogging: Monday/Newton+Darwin Edition

Tom wrote 10 months ago: Cross posted at So Simple A Beginning. Up to now, we’ve been talking around the edges of what Darwin … more →

Tags: Evolution, Isaac Newton, History of Science, Darwin

Friday (Isaac) Newton Blogging: Monday Cosmology Edition.6 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: Update:  See correction below.** (Cross-posted at Cosmic Variance.) Let me just admit up front that … more →

Tags: astronomy, Isaac Newton, Cosmology, good public communication of science, History of Science, Big Ideas, Physics, John Locke, Edmond Halley

Friday (Isaac) Newton Blogging: Newton -- gourmand.

Tom wrote 1 year ago: Apologies to all for the hiatus in this blog feature. The reason, beyond the normal clutter of late … more →

Tags: Isaac Newton, History of Science, Food, newton, gluttony

Friday (Isaac) Newton blogging (Monday edition): Isaac solves the subprime mess.1 comment

Tom wrote 1 year ago: We are in a mess. How bad is it? I don’t know — but when the Fed et al. race to make sur … more →

Tags: Who thought that was a good idea?, History, Isaac Newton, quis custodiet ipsos custodes, Scientific Revolution, History of Science, Economic follies, newton, mortgage crisis

Friday (Isaac) Newton blogging: How Mean Was He?3 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: March 22, 1699 offered Londoners one of their favorite entertainments: execution day, the carnival h … more →

Tags: Crime, History, History of Science, Isaac Newton, punishment, Scientific Revolution, Torture, burning, Capital Punishment

Friday (Isaac) Newton blogging: "On the Shoulders of Giants" or, Revenge is a Dish Best Eaten Cold Edition.4 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: On March 3, 1703, a very short giant died, and a greater one of average height may well have laughed … more →

Tags: unsportmanlike conduct, astronomy, History, Isaac Newton, Scientific Revolution, History of Science, professoriat follies, Hooke, newton

Friday (Isaac) Newton blogging: Valentine's Day edition.2 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: Sir Isaac Newton lived a prodigiously long life for his day — not bad for ours either. He died … more →

Tags: Isaac Newton, Love, Fame!, Genius

Friday (Isaac) Newton blogging: February 8. Mark the day ...4 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: …because if modern science has a birthday, this could be it. (Think of February 8 as the analo … more →

Tags: Physics, Isaac Newton, History of Science, Science, History, Optics, Telescopes


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