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Behold the Woggles! (left) These real-time animations created through Project Oz filtered out into the cultural landscape of the 1990s.
How? Virtual pets! (e.g. Dogz & Catz, which pre-dated the Tamagotchi by a few years...)
#SIGCIS22
#ICYMI-The Oct. 2022 issue of Technology & Culture was just released, and the #PublicHistory section is devoted to @LindaHall_org's virtual #fellowships!
https://t.co/302guqiD0y
This writing project has been in the works for over a year. Here's a quick thread... (1/n)
#histSTM
Asking people to pick a favorite star could provoke a #Sirius controversy...
(Illustration of Canis Major & Lepus from @LindaHall_org's copy of Urania's Mirror, 1825: https://t.co/oVAURrgZ8Q)
#badpun #astronomy #constellations https://t.co/SRE7VgFbub
#ICYMI: @EdwinRose3 (2017-18 *and* 2022-23 LHL Fellow) received an @ahrcpress research grant to explore the relationship b/w politics & natural history during the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848).
Check out the project's @CambridgeHPS website: https://t.co/8H9rRCCwzN [8/16]
Anders Sparrman, Swedish naturalist and student of Linnaeus, is @Lindahall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
These ornithological illustrations are from @SILibraries' copy of Sparrman's Museum carlsonianum (1786-9).
https://t.co/LahjzbY9M1
#histSTM #sciart
#nathist #birds
The microscopic world is beautiful. Just look at all those Perty pictures!
Josef Anton Maximilian Perty, German naturalist who published an illustrated treatise on #protozoa in 1852, is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
https://t.co/lL28sRYIb7
#histSTM #biology #histbio
André Tacquet, a Flemish mathematician and Jesuit priest whose books are filled with emblematic imagery, is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
https://t.co/Nqm1VWwTQN
#histSTM #SillyPutti
#mathematics #math
@icpetrie Sometimes I wonder who would win in a fight between Cookie Jarvis and Waldo, the Lucky Charms Wizard...
https://t.co/ucnOeAQYBD
#ICYMI-Today's #GoogleDoodle celebrates Elijah McCoy (b. #OTD 1844), the Black Canadian-American engineer whose inventions improved the efficiency of locomotives & steam engines.
He is often cited as the inspiration for the expression, "The real McCoy"
#histSTM #BlackAndSTEM