"Should unexpected pallets of dip continue to appear around Philly, Deutsch said, “In this case, I do not recommend that restaurants accept this mystery dip."
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"Should unexpected pallets of dip continue to appear around Philly, Deutsch said, “In this case, I do not recommend that restaurants accept this mystery dip."
Somehow just seeing this now. A quick thread on some (maybe) historical parallels. Breakfast cereal first starting being embraced in the US around the same time (and often via the same proponents of) that vegetarianism takes on a particular hypermasculine form at the end of the 19th century. (1/x)
Cover art for The Long Winter, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
2026
Sharing for the weekend crowd. I am on the advisory committee for this so I'm happy to answer any questions. Please share widely!
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For all the breathless talk about the supposedly useless liberal arts majors out there, I'm hard pressed (bench-pressed, even...) to think of a more relevant major than Women's and Gender Studies for understanding what is going on in the United States right now.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...
Postage stamp with smiling child, text reading “dental health.”
Sheet of 4 stamps depicting man in wheelchair working in a factory.
I’ll leave you with this celebration of dental health on the centennial of the American Dental Association, and an exhortation to “employ the handicapped,” both from mid-20th century. Have a good night.
But sometimes I think about my bright dad as a kid pasting a stamp of Harvey Wiley into his collection, and then I think about today’s overlapping news stories about the FDA and vaccine reviews/schedules and man…
Today, this stamp celebrating 50years of the Pure Food and Drug Act was on my mind. I know better than to romanticize an era of what I know were deeply imperfect policies and even less perfect implementation,
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1957 postage stamp celebrating the fight against polio.
Look at this sweet 1957 stamp from his collection celebrating those who “helped fight polio.” Read more about it here: www.si.edu/object/3c-po...
1931 Red Cross commemorative stamp. And timely Winter Olympics one to boot!
A few years ago, my dad gave us his boyhood stamp collection. I’m always struck by how many of the stamps are celebrating scientific and medical milestones and institutions.
Your son might find it a bit too juvenile encountering for the first time at 15, but my basketball-obsessed 15 year old rereads The Crossover by Kwame Alexander at least every year, we have both the regular and graphic novel versions.
I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
The 40-something year old impulse to yell out all the voices and actors you recognize and everything they’ve been in during family movie night…
One of my all time favorites:
Very cool research blending history, climate, engineering, culture, religion, check it out:
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I don’t know how old she is, but this one is a good start:
If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Real talk though… this slaw is so good it may be the answer to *some* problems dianerehm.org/shows/2012-1...
Huzzah! Congratulations friend!
This is also a debate in my family. I am A and only A. Close family is B and they call this option “a shmix.”
As in, “ooh I love a shmix for breakfast tomorrow”
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We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT
My department is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Epidemiology! #Episky listings.jobs.gmu.edu/jobs/global-...
Which is so ironic because Obama and his team *also* didn’t want it called “Obamacare”
#foodhist friends: I have a student working on a capstone about food culture in Florence. Student has a great start on secondary sources and good collection of images to use as primary. Any other thoughts on other primary sources to explore?
So much is going on that I somehow missed that an American Secretary of War is having a public fit about fat generals and the unruly bodies of military men... say what you want about our current moment, you can't deny the big Elihu Root energy.
Instructional poster asking the questions, “what does a historian do?” And “why should I care?”
Spotted on the middle school classroom wall:
I do wish more would understand the value of Medicaid and empathy and care when it didn’t affect them personally, but I’m truly glad for anyone who has seen the truth and are here now.
And truly I mean this: Welcome to all who wish to join the fight to protect the lives and dignity of those who need it most. Your efforts and votes are sorely needed.
Oh wow the intensity of the sigh that just escaped me reading this headline:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...