Edward Guimont

My friend Patrick Prominski and I are working on an edited volume on how now-discredited ideas involving biology (widely construed) were used in scientific fiction from c. 1825-1925. If you have any ideas for anything even broadly along those lines, please pitch them, we'd love to see them!

I'm behind on sharing some of the articles from the latest issue of Endeavour! First is Zyg Furmaniuk's fascinating look at Stephen Jay Gould's lifelong engagement with comics, including a collaboration with Marvel that never came to pass: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My (and Jean's) take on the Physics Nobel announcement last week: #histsci #envhist #envhum #STS #Antarctica theconversation.com/physics-nobe...

Tuesday Motivation

For @talkingpointsmemo.com, I wrote about how America's three biggest fringe radio personalities reacted to the 9/11 attacks in real time. In the process, they laid the foundation for the day's most widely-believed conspiracy theories talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/on-9-11...

At long last, eight years after the first idea for it began to develop, it’s finally arrived!

Provoked by the new book about flat-earthery by Edward Guimont (@eguimont.bsky.social), I consider "A Flat-Earth Preacher's Understandable Silence about the Scopes Trial" at Righting America.

Antarctic Materialities, edited by Daniella McCahey @farsouthhistory.bsky.social and Maria Ximena Senatore has now been published! Find out more here: bit.ly/4fLeijY #Archaeology #EnvironmentalStudies #CulturalStudies

We did see that coming.

Sad to report that most Democrats haven't just turned their backs on student debtors, they're actively making the system even more predatory. Read this piece by my comrade Braxton Brewington and then join @debtcollective.bsky.social. Without mass action debtors are going to continue to be crushed.

@eguimont.bsky.social and I just did a little interview to mark our new term at Endeavour. Get in touch if you're interested in the journal and what we do!

Up in Elmira for the Twain Quadrennial and what a treat to get to hear grad colleague and @contingent-mag.bsky.social star @eguimont.bsky.social talk about Twain and astronomy and weird 19th century cranks.

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social looks at a new article by Gabriela Rădulescu that draws links between Iosif Shklovsky's ideas about an evolutionary cosmos and support in the USSR for work on interstellar communication.

Fall River Public Library tribute for the tenth anniversary of Michael and Us. @willsloanesq.bsky.social

Just got off the phone with Lindsey Graham. Had a 20 minute talk. He assures me he's doing well and was very amused to hear that people think he's dead.

The term “climate change denier” was never associated with Holocaust denial until Michael Crichton created that myth in 2003. Maybe he was prescient. www.boslough.us/blog/michael...

It's out! Get a copy or have your local/school library order a copy today! link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Audi doing a Flat Earth ad: youtu.be/grqHAQGNRvU?...

Is the Telepathy Tapes a cult? Is it made up of cults, plural? And is it a racket? Join us tomorrow, 12 PST, on Weirds Reads with Emily Louise as we dig into the All-American subject of money making cults and mega-fandom! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxlh...

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

Yuri Gagarin with Che Guevara.

We are happy to announce the official return of the ArchaeoGaming Conference hosted by the ArchaeoGaming Collective. This is a 100% virtual event that is free to attend. We are currently accepting presentation submissions until August 16. For more details: archaeogameco.weebly.com/coninfo.html

The long-awaited second issue of the world's finest Three Stooges zine, THE JOURNAL OF STOOGEOLOGICAL STUDIES, goes on sale next week. TORONTO: Come to the official launch event on June 30 at Eyesore Cinema. Featuring 16mm Three Stooges films! Reserve a spot: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-journa...

First issue of Endeavour under the purview of @sarahmpicks.bsky.social and myself is up! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ende...

Did not know about this grant before but what an opportunity!

The system is old and broken... We need New ideas and New leadership in the AZ Governor office. Watch New Amato's full Announcement video and learn more about the Campaign at newgovaz.com.

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

March 16th is the 100th anniversary of the launch of a liquid fueled rocket by Robert Goddard, from his Aunt Effie's farm in Massachusetts. But who was Aunt Effie? What was her full name? Why did she support her cousin in his ambitions? She is part of space heritage too. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

We are 1 day away from Oscar.

Read an amazing book on British Studies in the post 1800 period? Consider nominating the book for the Stansky Book Prize! 📅Nominations due May 15 More info and how to nominate here: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...

@eguimont.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the latest Spotlight article for Endeavour: “Creation science as culture: South Korean antievolutionists’ international practices in four countries.” Free to read until June 30! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ende...

Excited to say that the website and publication date for my Flat Earth book is out. Mark your calendars for August 23! link.springer.com/book/9783032...

My article about the Rocky Mountain Martian hoax of 1864-5. A real hoot! www.historycolorado.org/story/2025/0...

Yesterday was crazy, so you might have missed my newest Patreon piece, on Alex Jones and the early days of QAnon. This one is free, but subscriptions are always welcome! www.patreon.com/posts/151479...

My next book getting closer to being released. www.routledge.com/Darwin-and-t...

Ha ha Hancock! Things keep getting redacted... Two papers related to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis by the Comet Research Group have been retracted after the journal editors found fundamental problems with the core evidence and interpretation.

Our inaugural episode of Science Counterpunch with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and @michaelemann.bsky.social is out now: www.protagonist-science.com/p/science-un... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4PF... Apple podcast: podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/s... Full convo 🔽 Some highlights below: 1/

Auchincloss is below-replacement-level. A smart guy who somehow can't think his way out of a paper bag. #mapoli

The moment many have been waiting for has arrived as the fantastic documentary 'Saucers, Spooks, and Kooks,' based on Adam Gorightly's excellent book of the same name, is now available to rent or buy. Check it out! saucersspooksandkooks.vhx.tv

This week on BoA: The Revival, writer Robert Skvarla joins us for an enlightening conversation about Havana Syndrome, a wild story involving the CIA and Credence Clearwater Revival, conspiracy culture, paranormal conventions, and a whole bunch more. open.spotify.com/episode/4p6T...

There's an old saying from Ron Paul - I know it's in Lenin, probably in Ron Paul - that says there are decades where weeks...uh... and there are weeks where, uh...it's happening

please allow us to share one our all time fave bits of Crystal Palace Dinosaur art: “Jurassic Park 1854”, by the amazing @jedtaylorartist.bsky.social back then, Richard Owen wrote that Megolasaurus “probably waged a deadly war against its less destructively endowed congeners and contemporaries”

Just published a paper on the complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir meme, the decade-old tumblr in-joke that continues to impact the public understanding of the ancient world. Paywalled but email me if you want a copy. 🏺

New in my library: The book chapter from 1930 that gave rise to the modern myth of living pterosaurs hiding in the American West, now public domain and published online for the first time. www.jasoncolavito.com/living-ptero...

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