Howard Markel

Jan 16, 2025 | daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills |Howard Markel |Alexandra Minna Stern

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. “At critical junctures in American history, immigrants have been stigmatized as the etiology of a wide variety of physical and societal ills,” write scholars Howard Markel and Alexandra Minna Stern.

Nov 2, 2024 | journalgazette.net | Rachel M. Lance |Howard Markel |Thomas R. Cech |Nicola Twilley

These works of science history are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever”by Rachel Lance This story of the men and women who provided invaluable submarine and underwater breathing reconnaissance that led to the Allies’ dramatic and history-making success on D-Day is based on top-secret documents only recently declassified.

Jun 25, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Howard Markel

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Jun 25, 2024 | lithub.com | Howard Markel

“Now and then, in the course of the century, a great man of science, like Darwin… has been able to isolate himself, to keep himself out of the clamorous claims of others, to stand “under the shelter of the wall,” as Plato puts it, and so to realize the perfection of what was in him, to his own incomparable gain, and to the incomparable and lasting gain of the whole world.” –Oscar Wilde, 1891 * Article continues below “There are two sides to every question; there are often half a dozen.”...

Jun 9, 2024 | nytimes.com | Howard Markel

ORIGIN STORY: The Trials of Charles Darwin, by Howard MarkelCharles Darwin was not a well man. He spent most of his adult life as a recluse, suffering from a whole host of symptoms: boils, rashes, ulcers, headaches, and bouts of vomiting and gas so painful that they often prostrated him. Modern doctors have retroactively diagnosed him with more than a dozen different ailments - lupus, narcolepsy, gout, pigeon allergies, etc. - without reaching any consensus.