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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD
@node801.bsky.social
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Professor of Social Science & Cultural Studies
Dept. Social Science & Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute.
https://sciences.social/@NODE801
#HistSTM #CriticalTheory #soundscapes
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Simon's Rock College '78-'82
Scientia et honor.
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Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, W. H. (William Home) Lizars, and Thomas Carnegy. 1821. Elements of the Philosophy of Plants : Containing the Principles of Scientific Botany, Nomenclature, Theory of Classification, ....
#HistSTM #HistSci
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September 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Field Bindweed Convolvulus arvensis
#FtTryonParkNYCbiodiversity #NYC #WaHi
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
via Fort Tryon Park: #Biodiversity and Ecology #iNaturalist Project.
www.inaturalist.org/projects/for...
September 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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William Lawrence. 1819. Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man: Delivered at the Royal College ... Callow.
#HistSTM #HistSci
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185933
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"The temple of science has not been raised to its present commanding height, or decorated with its beautiful proportions and embellishments, by the exertions of any one country. If we obstinately shut our eyes to all that other nations have contributed, we shall survey only a few columns of the majestic fabric, and never rise to an adequate conception of the grandeur and beauty of the whole. Our insular situation, by restricting intercourse, has contributed to generate a contempt of foreigners, and an unreasonable notion of our own importance, which is often ludicrous; always to be regretted; and in many cases strong enough to resist all the weapons of reason and ridicule.... Science requires an expanded mind, a view that embraces the universe. Instead of shutting himself up in an island, and abusing all the rest of mankind, the philosopher should make the world his country; and should trample beneath his feet those prejudices, which the vulgar so fondly hug to their bosoms"
September 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Butler, Samuel A. 1818. A Sketch of Modern and Ancient Geography for the Use of Schools. #HistSTM #HistSci #geography archive.org/details/Butl...
September 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Millar, James. 1818. A Guide to Botany, or, A Familiar Illustration of the Principles of the Linnaean Classification. #HistSTM #HistSci #Botany
archive.org/details/guid...
September 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Macloc, J., and Benjamin Mayo. 1818. New, Complete and Universal Natural History of All the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects in the Known World : Illustrative of Their Natures, Manners, Dispositions, Habits, &c. #HistSTM #HistSci
archive.org/details/newc...
September 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Johnson, Adayshia (2022). “Ibn Khaldun’s Views on Race: Influences by Early Life/Childhood, Climate, Geography, and Geographic Segmentation.” The Macksey Journal: Volume 3, Article
95. #HistSTM #HistSci #Sociology
mackseyjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/5565...
September 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins, “The End of Natural History?,” Capitalism Nature Socialism 7, no. 1, (1996): 95–98.
#HistSTM #HistSci
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
September 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Ferruginous Carpenter Ant Camponotus chromaiodes
(feasting on excretions from Spotted Lanternflys on the Tree Of Heaven a couple of feet away)
#FtTryonParkNYCbiodiversity #NYC #WaHi
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
via Fort Tryon Park: #Biodiversity and Ecology #iNaturalist Project.
September 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Bernard Lightman, “The ‘History’ of Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Huxley, Spencer and the ‘End’ of Natural History,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: 58 (2016): 17–23.
#HistSTM #HistSci
doi.org/10.1016/j.sh...
Abstract As part of their defence of evolutionary theory, T. H. Huxley and Herbert Spencer argued that natural history was no longer a legitimate scientific discipline. They outlined a secularized concept of life from biology to argue for the validity of naturalism. Despite their support for naturalism, they offered two different responses to the decline of natural history. Whereas Huxley emphasized the creation of a biological discipline, and all that that entailed, Spencer was more concerned with constructing an entire intellectual system based on the idea of evolution. In effect, Spencer wanted to create a new scientific worldview based on evolutionary theory. This had consequences for their understanding of human history, especially of how science had evolved through the ages. It affected their conceptions of human agency, contingency, and directionality in history. Examining Huxley's and Spencer's responses to the “end” of natural history reveals some of the deep divisions within scientific naturalism and the inherent problems of naturalism in general. Whereas Huxley chose to separate the natural and the historical, Spencer opted to fuse them into a single system.
September 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Lavater, Johann Caspar. 1817. "Resemblance between Man and the Monkey" from The pocket Lavater, or, The science of physiognomy: to which is added, an inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomy, from the Italian of Porta
#HistSTM #HistSci
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Resemblance between Man and the Monkey. Aristotle disapproved of very small eyes. Galen says that very small eyes, such as monkeys have, are a sure mark of pusillanimity, which may be readily discovered in the manners of the possessor. Polemon and Adamantius represent the miser with such eyes. Turtles have small eyes, and are extremely sly and cunning. He who has a flat nose, says Aristotle to Alexander, is impetuous; but the ancient translation from that author is incorrect: it should have been rendered lascivious: otherwise, he has contradicted himself; for in his treatise on Physiognomy he compares the man with a flat nose to the stag, which has one similar, and this animal is so lustful, that in the time of rutting he becomes crazy. A nose both short and flat, says Polemon, denotes a thievish disposition. Small ears, according: to Aristotie, are common to such men as are naturally dull, and addicted to thieving, as is the monkey. Polemon and Adamantius are of opinion, that they are peculiar to the cunning and malignant man; and according to Albert, they generally belong to the thief. Adamantius asserts that a small face designates the sly and flattering man; to which Rhases and Conciliator add timorous and covetous.
September 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Bowyer, Robert, James Montgomery, James Grahame, and E. (Elizabeth) Benger. 1809. Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade. London, Printed for R. Bowyer by T. Bensley.
#Slavery #InternetArchive
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August 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (France). (1802). Annales du Muséum d’histoire naturelle (Vol. 1). G. Dufour, et Ed. d’Ocagne.
#HistSTM #HistSci #Biodiversity @biodivlibrary.bsky.social
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/189419
Plan du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle
August 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Illustration from Polito, S. (1803). Description and Natural History of S. Polito’s Collection of Living Beasts and Birds (p. 26). #HistSTM #HistSci #BioDivLibrary @biodivlibrary.bsky.social
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50545967
August 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Zoos Could Be a Zone for High Impact Soundscape Research
Experts call for greater collaboration between bioacoustics researchers and zoos to boost impact and aid conservation
#Biodiversity #Soundscapes #SoundscapeEcology
www.technologynetworks.com/tn/articles/...
Dr. Rebecca Lewis setting up a recording device in the tropical realm area of Chester Zoo, which houses free-flying birds. Credit: Chester Zoo.
August 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Confederacy group [i.e., supporters/descendants of slavers and traitors] sues Georgia state park over exhibit on slavery, white supremacy; argue that a planned exhibit "violates a state law that requires preserving the site as a Confederate memorial"
#CivilWar #Slavery
www.npr.org/2025/07/14/n...
Stone Mountain State Park.
August 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Phrenology and IQ tests: the far-right revival of discredited race science
Resurging interest in theories of racial exceptionalism is turbocharged amid nuance-light world of social media
#HistSTM #HistSci #Slavery
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
August 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The Guardian view on the legacies of slavery: the response to Edinburgh’s report must go beyond academia
#HistSTM #HistSci #Slavery
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A phrenology model used by the slave owner Dr Charles Caldwell, held by the university. ‘Edinburgh’s report points to the university’s historic role as a “haven” for racist thinkers.’ Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/The Guardian
August 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Edinburgh University’s slavery and colonialism inquiry
including George Combe "One of the most prominent advocates of the racist science of phrenology" and who sold thousands more copies of his book than Darwin's Origin of Species #HistSTM #HistSci #Slavery www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Portrait of George Combe. "A trust from George Combe’s estate continues to fund a visiting fellowship. Photograph: Hodgetts, RM/The University of Edinburgh"
August 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Dog breeds & human races: critique of a false analogy, by Jerry Phillips
#HistSTM #HistSci
www.animals24-7.org/2025/07/04/d...
August 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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“Enormous wrongdoings” of slave traders tackled by City of London project
#Slavery #USslavery
Guildhall statues of two men enriched by slavery have been reinterpreted with input from Caribbean writers to expose the city’s historical ties to the trade
www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...
A plaque condemning slave traders is attached to the statue of William Beckford at London’s Guildhall (Pic: City of London Corporation)
August 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds
"one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories"
#HistSTM #HistSci #Slavery
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
August 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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As if the National Socialists built a beer-hall at Versailles
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Guardian: Trump is a wrecking ball’: behind the president’s $200m plan to build a White House ballroom
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The White House released renderings of the ballroom with white and gold walls and trim. Illustration: McCrery Architects/White House
August 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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August 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Darlington, S.C.
That it might have been arson is particular disturbing, if not very surprising. It was organized during Reconstruction on August 18, 1869. #SouthCarolina #BlackSky
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Photo of Pleasant Grove church on fire. Photo of Pleasant Grove church on fire. Photo of Pleasant Grove church before the fire. The extension on the left side was built by my Dad and my Uncle's construction/ church renovation company.
July 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM