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Pedro Albizu Campos Digital Resource Collection

 Pedro Albizu Campos Digital Resource Collection. The digital resource collection includes images of all of Pedro Albizu Campos’ archival documents from his early years at the University of Vermont,...

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Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty

Source: Nature Emilia Jarochowska joined Twitter in 2016 in the hope that it might help to enhance her career. She was finishing her PhD in palaeontology at the time, and felt that the platform would...

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Hughes Prize Shortlisting

Source: British Society for the History of Science (BSHS)   The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) has unveiled the shortlist for its Hughes Prize. Six exceptional books will now be...

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In the footsteps of Alexander von Humboldt

Source: NewScientist Alexander von Humboldt was a geographer, explorer and naturalist. Some consider him to be the first ecologist. He altered the way that scientists see the natural world by finding...

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Asua, Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750–1960) (2022)

Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750–1960) A Study on Scientific Culture, Religion, and Secularisation in Latin America Miguel de Asúa De Gruyter, 2022 Science and Catholicism in Argentina...

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Walsh, The Religion of Life (2022)

The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile Sarah Walsh University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022 The Religion of Life examines the interconnections and relationship between Catholicism...

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American Scientists Bringing Animals Back From Extinction

Source: Ancient Origins   In a world where the delicate balance of nature is threatened by human activities, a group of American scientists has taken on an extraordinary mission. Hidden away within...

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Las revoluciones políticas y la ciencia en México

Fuente: Foro Consultivo   El libro Las revoluciones políticas y la ciencia en México, de Juan José Saldaña González realiza una indagación histórica sobre uno de los rasgos estructurales de la...

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La historia de la ciencia: el largo camino por recorrer

Fuente: Juan José Saldaña González    La historia de la ciencia no es un adorno para la erudición. Tiene tareas esenciales para México que es necesario desarrollar. Entre ellas está su función en la...

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Sensible fallecimiento del Dr. Juan José Saldaña González

Fuente: UNAM A la comunidad y amigos del Posgrado en Historia de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México El Programa de Maestría y Doctorado en Historia lamenta el sensible fallecimiento del Dr....

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Preguntas sobre la historia de la ciencia en Puerto Rico a ChatGPT

Preguntas sobre la historia de la ciencia en Puerto Rico a ChatGPT Enlace: https://chat-gpt.org/chat   1) You who was the first scientist in puerto rico? ChatGPT The first known scientist in Puerto...

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Preguntas sobre la difusión de la Revolución Científica en América Latina a ChatGPT

Preguntas sobre la difusión de la Revolución Científica en América Latina a ChatGPT Enlace: https://chat-gpt.org/chat 1) You was gravitational theory of sir isaac newton discussed in latin america...

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How Latin American researchers suffer in science

Source: Nature As female researchers from Latin American countries (one of us now works in the United States, the other in Argentina), we’re used to career obstacles. These range from limited funding...

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Open-access publishing fees deter researchers in the global south

Source: Nature Open-access papers have drastically fewer lead authors from low-income regions than do paywalled articles, an analysis of tens of thousands of articles shows. The findings suggest that...

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Massive open index of scholarly papers launches

Source: Nature   An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and research topics, has been launched. The index,...

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New dangers? Computers uncover 100,000 novel viruses in old genetic data

Source: Science Magazine It took just one virus to cripple the world’s economy and kill millions of people; yet virologists estimate that trillions of still-unknown viruses exist, many of which might...

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Argentina: país modelo para descolonizar la paleontología

Fuente: SciDev   Para enfrentar el colonialismo que impera en la paleontología de América Latina, es necesario fortalecer regulaciones y comunidades científicas locales, pero también propiciar que la...

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Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity

Source: Nature   Sampling biases in the fossil record distort estimates of past biodiversity. However, these biases not only reflect the geological and spatial aspects of the fossil record, but also...

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Omicron leads to fresh wave of scientific meeting cancellations

Source: Science Magazine In a near rerun of early 2020, when dozens of meetings were canceled on short notice because of the pandemic, a handful of scientific societies are once again canceling their...

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Zero-point Hubris: Science, Race, and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-century Latin America

By Santiago Castro-Gómez · Rowman & Littlefield, 2021 Operating within the framework of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory, this important work starts from the assumption that the...

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The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

By Michael Strevens Liveright, 2020   During the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution, a small handful of radical thinkers, among them Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton, hit upon a way of...

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José Gregorio Paredes (1778-1839) : científico, político y creador del Escudo Nacional

  Alberto Varillas Montenegro Lima : Fondo Editorial del Congreso del Perú : Instituto Riva-Agüero : Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2019   Primera parte: José Gregorio Paredes, hombre de...

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Antes de la ciencia : filosofía natural en Popayán (1767-1808)

  William Jiménez Escobar Bogotá : Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, 2020 Colección: Cuadernos Coloniales Páginas: 203 A partir de un recorrido por colecciones bibliográficas de una...

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Brazil’s scientists face 90% budget cut

Source: Nature   A proposal to shrink Brazil’s federal science budget by more than 90% has now been approved by our president. The immediate future of all ongoing projects, including thousands of...

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Centers, Peripheries and Subordination. A View on Latin American Science

Science and Society in Latin America. Peripheral Modernities, by P. Kreimer, New York and London: Routledge, 2019, 270 p., $48.95 (pbk)/$160 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-03209326-0     There has been a renewed...

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