B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science

BY B.R. Cohen

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Science and scientists are funnily or strangely charming, besides being strictly adverbial. The Annals of Science—whose beta-test name was The Fanciful Annals of Science, to evoke a 6/8 metric feel—is all you could ask for, if you’re asking for the intersection of science, history, and dry charm.

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Vol. XIII: The Ecology of Squish and Crunch (7/30/2007)

Vol. XII: Galileo Was Right About the Stars (2/16/2007)

Vol. XI: I Got Your Theory of Everything Right Here, Engineer Fred (6/14/2006)

Vol. X: On Chickens, Peas, Rib Eyes, and Dolls (2/14/2006)

Vol. IX: Little Charlie Darwin, God Bless Him (10/11/2005)

Vol. VIII: Nothing Phallic Going On Here (6/2/2005)

Vol. VII: The Myth of Fingerprints; or, The Case of Duplicate Toe Jam (2/18/2005)

Vol. VI: Pascalian Tidbits of Biography (12/17/2004)

Vol. V: Einstein, Eddington, and the Greatest Desert-Island Album (9/28/2004)

Vol. IV: The Salad Days of Genetics (7/9/2004)

Vol III: Substance Abusers Are Scientists Too: Vignettes on Auto-Experimentation (3/16/2004)

Vol. II: The Milk Man Cometh: Pasteur v. Toussaint (12/2/2003)

Vol I: Newton, Leibniz, and Calculus; or, How to Put the Beat Down on a Rival in the 17th Century and Lavoisier, Priestley, and Oxygen; or, The Tyranny of Purity (10/3/2003)

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