Read Today #2
Mostly school work today.
- Stephen Baker with Bremen Leak, “Math Will Rock Your World”
- Ian Hacking, chapter 3, “Public amateurs, secret bureaucrats,” from The Taming of Chance
- Ian Hacking, chapter 13, “Regimental chests,” from The Taming of Chance
- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., chapter 3, “The Railroads: The First Modern Business Enterprises, 1850s-1860s,” from The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
- Theodore M. Porter, chapter 2, “How Social Numbers Are Made Valid,” from Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life
- Simon A. Cole, chapter 2, “Measuring the Criminal Body,” from Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification


No One Cares so far
Leave a comment
Leave a comment
Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>