Beyond Silent Spring - https://web.archive.org/web/20230620043248/https://sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/beyond-silent-spring-an-alternate-history-of-ddt/
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DDT Pollution - Research Gate -
https://archive.ph/aLftd
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#DDT #tilt

#January 29, 1958
#OTD The #Boston Herald published "Evidence of Havoc by #DDT" by #Duxbury #Journalist, & #Naturalist: Olga Owens Huckins.

The Huckins' land was "where #Songbirds sang, #Ducks swam, & #GreatBlueHerons nested" until #Massachusetts #Mosquito Control sprayed DDT.

Olga wrote,
"[They] killed 7 lovely #Songbirds outright... 3 the next morning... [The birds] trusted us & [nested here] year after year."

Olga also appealed to her old friend Rachel Carson who wrote #SilentSpring.

It's back to the future in Moscow, where you're not allowed to play Akvarium and Boris Grebenshchikov (who already faced state sanctions under the Soviet rulers back in the 80s) at high school parties.

There are other famous names from the past on the list as well, like Mashina Vremeni and #DDT (which has vocally opposed Russia's invasion of Ukraine), but current artists too, like the vocally anti-war rapper Oxxxymiron.

https://twitter.com/polidemitolog/status/1603480985768714256 (via @irgarner) #Russia

I interview Historian Elena Conis on how risky pesticides were culturally accepted and what kind of role did science play in its acceptance. Professor Conis explains how scientific research during war and epidemics prioritized some types of scientific questions over others, and how this approach built an economy that was geared towards selling poisonous pesticides and making them socially desirable:
https://publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2022/07/13/episode-5-science-and-economy-of-selling-pesticides/

#science #history #DDT #pesticides