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Probing the Mysteries of Human Digestion
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Opioids’ Devastating Return
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Old Brew, New Brew
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Sweating Blood
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Distilled #2: An Early (Gold-Plated!) Not-Quite-IUD
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Distilled #1: Caffeine Pills in Disguise
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The Mystery of Yellow Rain
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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures
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Hard Work and Happenstance
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A Study In Scarlet
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Second Chances
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From Barbers and Butchers to Modern Surgeons
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Sweet and Savory: How We Preserve Our Food
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Here Comes the Spray Man!
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Fizzy Water
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The Art of Memory
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The Birds, the Bees, and the Froggies
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The Age of Scurvy
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Fellow in Focus: Fresh Air, Foul Odors, and the Growth of American Cities
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The Appeal of Hot Air
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First Friday: Choose Your Own Adventure
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A Killer of a Cure
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A Recipe for Good Health
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First Friday: The Science of Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
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A Tear Gas Tale
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Going Viral
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Learning to Move with Move to Learn
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My Data, My Self: A Century of Self-Tracking Health Technologies
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No Real Distinction
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History Lab: Communities and the Future
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History Lab: Bodies and the Future
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The Foul Stench of Smelling Good
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First Friday: Science History Tournament
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Auld Medicine
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High Times
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Chemical Hope
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First Friday: Wikipedia and Women in Science
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Fellow in Focus: “Trust Me!” The Problem of Insincerity in Early Modern Medicine
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Is the Smog Out?
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Brown Bag Lecture: Pharmaceutical Crossings: Sleeping Sickness Research between Europe, Colonial Africa, and the United States, 1890–1950
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Flexible Meaning
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“What’s In the Box?”
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Killing Cancer
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The Filter of Life
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Second Skin: The Science of Stretch
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Beauty Marks
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Brown Bag Lecture: Making Public Health Commodities and Global Health Science in Africa: The Early History of Pyrethroid-Treated Nets
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