[Sci-tech-public] more good news

[David Kaiser]

Hello, all,

In case you missed it, our own Sherry Turkle published a long piece in the New York Times recently, based on her work for her book, Alone Together. You can read the piece here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html

And David Mindell's first book has just been issued in a new, second edition, under the new title, Iron Coffin: War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor (Johns Hopkins University Press). You can read an interview with David about the book here:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/the-civil-wars-iron-age.html

For our graduate students, it is worth mentioning that David's award-winning book project began as a second-year paper in our doctoral program -- so sometimes when we say, "of publishable quality," we really mean it (!).

Congratulations to Sherry and David for getting the word out about exciting STS scholarship!

best,
Dave

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David Kaiser			    			
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and Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics
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