Health & Medicine
Curator holding bottle of Lift vitamins.

Distilled #1: Caffeine Pills in Disguise

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The Mystery of Yellow Rain

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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures
Research

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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Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

Studies in Sustainability
Research
Innovation and Regulation on the Open Seas: The Development of Sea-Nine Marine Antifouling Paint

Studies in Materials Innovation
Research

History Lab: Imagination and Data­­

Event

History Lab: Communities and Data

Event

History Lab: Bodies and Data

Event

Choose Your Own Adventure

Event

Sweet and Savory: How We Preserve Our Food

Event

Saturday Speaker: Epidemics, Immigration, and Quarantine in 19th-Century Philadelphia

Event

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

Event

The Appeal of Hot Air

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Elena Kunadt

People

First Friday: Choose Your Own Adventure

Event

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”

Event

A Tear Gas Tale

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AIDS

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

Event

No Real Distinction

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History Lab: Communities and the Future

Event

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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Amputation

Auld Medicine

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Nitrous oxide party

High Times

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Restoring the Mary Rose

Chemical Hope

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Women in science

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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Smog in Tiananmen Square

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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Crocidolite asbestos, Pomfret Mine, Vryburg, South Africa.

Flexible Meaning
Research
A totally inaccurate depiction of Andrew Mangravite’s affliction. (Wellcome Library)

“What’s In the Box?”

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Reginald Brill's A Surgical Operation (1934-1935)

Killing Cancer

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Illustration of a Pasteur-Chamberland filter

The Filter of Life

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Second Skin: The Science of Stretch
Museum
a French shampoo ad from 1907

Beauty Marks

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Sarah Ehlers

Sarah Ehlers

People
Dr. Angela Creager speaks at the Institute during the 2014 Synthesis lecture.

Brown Bag Lecture: Making Public Health Commodities and Global Health Science in Africa: The Early History of Pyrethroid-Treated Nets

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Thomas Apel

Thomas Apel

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Marieke Hendriksen

Marieke Hendriksen

People

Jose-Luis Jimenez
Research
Bird with Plastic

Polymer Scientist—Medical Applications
Learn

The Ancient Chemistry Inside Your Taco

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Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

REACH Ambler
Research
Tho-Radia ad

The Secrets of Life

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Vaccinating for polio in South Sudan, 2014.

Political Ills

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Deanna Day

People