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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-06-14

  Times of Transience

While bookended by extended periods of unity and peace, the Period of Division in China was shaped by wars, displacement, and instability. Spanning nearly four centuries – from 280 to 589 AD to be exact – China fragmented into more than two dozen kingd...
  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - MPIWG author
2024-02-14

  09 - How Alchemy Helped Feed Early Modern Europe

In the early modern era, European agriculture was in crisis. Soils had become depleted, crops grew smaller and fewer in number, and the growing seasons were shorter and cooler. Food production could no longer keep pace with population growth. To find s...
  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - MPIWG author
2024-01-25

  08 - Leon Rosenfeld and the Quest for Unification

Leon Rosenfeld conducted groundbreaking research in physics. He is also barely known. Together, host Stephanie Hood and historian of physics Bernadette Lessel go on a search for clues throughout Rosenfeld's life: What made his research so important, du...
  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - MPIWG author
2023-08-28

  Special Episode: There Is No One History of Science (But It’s All Interconnected)

What is truth? When does a pandemic “end”? What decisions do we want to leave to artificial intelligence… and which would we rather not? These are some of the questions “that keep them up at night,” as science journalist Pakinam Amer puts it. “They” a...
  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - MPIWG author
2021-06-11

  07 - Leonardo's Intellectual Cosmos

Leonardo da Vinci is commonly known as the great inventor of creative machines, the artist of the famous drawing of the Vitruvian Man. But Leonardo was also an avid reader: his personal library contained nearly 200 books on science and technology, lite...
  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - MPIWG author
2021-05-03

  06 - Grasping the Invisible

Analogies have been used throughout history as a means of explaining the world, and of grasping phenomena that could not otherwise be understood. In this episode of the "Science Social" podcast series, host Stephanie Hood and Postdoctoral Fellow Hannah...
  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - MPIWG author
2021-04-26

  05 - The Discovery of Black Holes

Over the past century, physicists and astronomers have brought to light one of the most elusive and powerful phenomena in our universe: black holes. Unobservable to the human eye, even their sheer existence has been contested until recently. The breath...
  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - MPIWG author
2021-03-18

  04 - "The 'How' of 'How-To?'"

Some people use them as doorstops, a few even for weightlifting, and others actually read them! In this podcast episode we talk about books—or specifically, handbooks and manuals. From cooking to chemistry, these seemingly simple objects provide knowle...
  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - MPIWG author
2020-12-09

  03 - LoGaRT: History 4.0

Digitization has changed our present lives in many unexpected ways—also for historical research. So what happens if we look at the past through a digital lens? Scholars Shih-Pei Chen and Joseph Dennis use LoGaRT, a set of online digital tools for inve...
  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - MPIWG author
2020-10-29

  02 - The Mask—Arrayed

It seems straightforward: we wear a mask because it protects us from pollution, from a contagious virus. Yet the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us that this seemingly simple object can also become a powerful symbol—one that can divide or unite us, silenc...
  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - MPIWG author