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Plate No. 20 Poisonous Reptiles and Insects

What We’re Talking About

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An Electric Education: How to Teach Science on Television

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Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

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Book Club: Simultaneous Discovery and Darwin’s Ghosts

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It’s Alive! The Scientific Roots of Monsters

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What We’re Talking About

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How Does DNA Testing Work, and What Secrets Does It Expose?

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WikiSpeaks: What It Means to Be a Wikipedian in Residence

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Othmer Library Open House: Escape the Archives

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Start Talking Science

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Zebrafish, a Model Organism

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Scientific Discovery through Art

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Stories of Disability in the Lab

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It’s Nothing New: Sexism in the Lab

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Book Club: Frankenstein in the 21st Century

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History Lab: Teacher Workshop

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The Alchemist and His Wife, ca. 1928, by Jacques Hammerer, after 17th-century original by David Ryckaert III.

Age of Alchemy Exhibition Opening

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The Mystery of Yellow Rain

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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures
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Cat Craze

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Carleen Hutchins: Rogue Luthier

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Fellow in Focus: Technology and Society: Engineering Cultures, Chemistry, and Social Order in the Second Industrial Revolution (1890 to 1930)

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Putting the Communication Back in Science Communication: An Interview with the Field Museum’s Emily Graslie

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History Lab: Imagination and Data­­

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History Lab: Communities and Data

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History Lab: Bodies and Data

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Saturday Speaker: Mary Somerville and the Clash between Science and Religion

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Saturday Speaker: Building an Insect Database

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Saturday Speaker: Resources and Red Tape: Doing Science in Communist China

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Choose Your Own Adventure

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Scholar Smackdown

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Saturday Speaker: The Invisible Woman: Pop Culture and the Scientific Divide

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Saturday Speaker: The Sweet Science of Chocolate

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The Elements of Fiction

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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures

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Othmer Library Open House: Back-to-School Night

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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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Fellowship Application
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Science Fiction or Fictional Science?

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Advertisement for various instruments made by Beckman Instruments, Inc. The Institute Collections.

Selling Science in the 20th Century

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First Friday: Sci-Fi Radio Play

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First Friday: Choose Your Own Adventure

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How Drinking Beer Is in Our DNA: An Interview with Jessica Zinskie

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Start Talking Science

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The Chemical Heritage Foundation Presents New Exhibition and Walking Tour—Things Fall Apart
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Things Fall Apart: An Interview with Exhibition Curator Elisabeth Berry Drago

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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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Things Fall Apart Exhibition Opening

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AIDS

Going Viral

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The Message of the March for Science

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History Lab: Fiction and the Future

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History Lab: Communities and the Future

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History Lab: Bodies and the Future

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Saturday Speaker

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Saturday Speaker: A Fourth Quarter Performance

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Saturday Speaker

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