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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Array is taking up most of my time now, but in spare moments I’m working my way through Richard Staley’s well-crafted Einstein’s Generation<\/em>, which I’ll profile here as soon as I’m finished.\u00a0 In the meantime, some big-name science studies people (Schaffer, Shapin, Galison, Daston, Ian Hacking, Bruno Latour, Andy Pickering, Brian Wynne, Evelyn Fox Keller) plus scientists and other thinkers, were interviewed by CBC’s David Cayley<\/a> at some point in the not-too-distant past as part of CBC’s Ideas <\/em>program.\u00a0 I just recently ran across it.\u00a0 It’s called “How to Think about Science”.\u00a0 As I’ve mentioned before, especially here<\/a>, I’m not a fan of this framing of science studies, because it tends to set up some simplistic straw-man “public image” of science, and then say, “but, actually, science is complex<\/em>“, and then present some case demonstrating how very cultural science is.\u00a0 Whether this program takes that approach or not, I don’t know for sure.\u00a0 Based on the abstracts, I’m not getting my hopes up. \u00a0 But because I don’t have RealPlayer at work, and haven’t set aside time at home to listen, I can’t fairly speak about it.\u00a0 I’ll get around to it soon.\u00a0 In the meantime, have a listen and judge for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sparse posting these days.\u00a0 Regular readers may have noticed I took down the tabs for the Canon page and the Web Lab.\u00a0 The former is because I haven’t been working on the canon project for a while, and until I find some way to reconstitute it, I thought it was better to bring it in<\/p>\n