Monday, June 30, 2008

The Magic of Science show

Link from Wisconsin Historical Society about traveling educator who goes to schools to talk about electricity.

Kids and medicine: Bibliographic notes

Reiser, Medicine and the Reign of Technology (1981)
Seltzer, Bodies and Machines (1992) (Literature-based)
Swabe, Animals, Disease, and Human Society: Human-Animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Science (1998)

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Grangers and children

In Nature's Metropolis, pgs 358-360: Grangers and pro-farm writers would include articles in their publications re: the need to keep kids on the farm (and how to do it)