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Internal memo from the pharmaceutical manufacturer Upjohn & Company (1962), brainstorming ideas about how to improve company relationship with the FDA

Among my favorite ideas:

-"understand the law"
- "spy"
- "tell the truth"
- "extorition and blackmail"
- "smile more"

#histsci #histech #histstm

Ok folks, I just started a #PublicHistory starter pack that I am certain missed a lot of people. So, share widely and share your recommended adds. TIA.

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Following on from my first #starterpack on Historians in Britain, I've now started another, which is a collection of STEM writers/journalists and medical/science historians! Please give me a shout if I've missed you, or you would like to be added to this list: go.bsky.app/3DuVT6Z

On this week's Chatter, @shaneharris.bsky.social spoke to @resobscura.bsky.social about his new book, Tripping on Utopia, on how Margaret Mead launched a movement to expand human consciousness, a story that includes the WWII-era OSS, a shady cast of CIA agents, & the pioneers of the Information Age.

Mindscape 267 | Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...

Heads up

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Just a note to say that a new Res Obscura post about everyone's favorite Hurrian horse trainer will be published tomorrow morning on Substack. This one is inspired by teaching UCSC's world history survey this fall. open.substack.com/pub/resobscu...

Such a fun and useful resource: text search in maps from the David Rumsey collection. Here are the results for "incognita" and "ruins": www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...