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A bearded, elderly alchemist in a fur-trimmed coat leans close over a tabletop experiment

The Applied Arts of Alchemy
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Short-Term Fellowship Application
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Dissertation Fellowship Application
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Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship Application
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Cows in a barn

The Washington Post: The Idea of Herd Immunity to Manage the Coronavirus Should Ring Alarm Bells
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Monsanto Hall of Chemistry pamphlet cover

Book of Abstracts
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Gabriela Serrato Marks doing fieldwork in a cave.

Bonus Episode: Interview with Gabriela Serrato Marks

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Bonus Episode: Interview with Kim Nielsen

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Interview with Katrine Bosley

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Interview with William Haseltine

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Interview with Susan Weiss

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Interview with Sue Desmond-Hellmann

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Distilled #13: An Environmental Cowboy from the 1970s

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Edison wax cylinder phonograph

Distilled #12: Edison’s Record Player

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Distilled #11: A 16th-Century Pop-Up Book

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Museum display of alchemical objects

CBS3: Science History Institute Blends History of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Sciences
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Gettingsmart.com: 100 Podcasts You Should Check Out
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Monsanto Hall of Chemistry pamphlet cover

Pedagogy, Popularization, and the Public Understanding of Science
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Bredig Archive materials

Hamodia: A Golden Age Turned Black
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Instructions for Game Play
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The Hill: R&D, Not Greenland, Can Solve Our Rare Earth Problem
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Science on TV: An Interview with Ingrid Ockert

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Magnifying glass over rare earth element

Introduction
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Moon landing-themed pop-up

Library Pop-Ups
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Group of Beckman Instruments scientists standing in a lab and smiling at the camera

Disability and the Myth of the Independent Scientist

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Whose Knowledge Counts? Scientists with Cognitive Differences

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Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

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Close up of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s astronomy textbook, De Sphaera Mundi (On the Sphere of the World).

Distilled #6: A 17th-Century (Interactive!) Astronomy Textbook

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Roger Eadley-Pryor takes a guided kayak tour of the Schuylkill River led by Drexel chemistry professor Pete DeCarlo and University of Pennsylvania environmental humanities professor Bethany Wiggin.

Imagining a Way Forward

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Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

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A portrait of Charles Darwin by Thomas Johnson

Book Club: Simultaneous Discovery and Darwin’s Ghosts

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Mary Mark Ockerbloom

WikiSpeaks: What It Means to Be a Wikipedian in Residence

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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It’s Nothing New: Sexism in the Lab

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A detail of the inside cover art from the 1831 edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Book Club: Frankenstein in the 21st Century

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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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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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Carleen Hutchins: Rogue Luthier

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An Interview with the Field Museum’s Emily Graslie

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The Elements of Fiction

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Fellowship Application
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Science Fiction or Fictional Science?

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

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Political Science

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Men wearing gas masks

A Tear Gas Tale

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AIDS

Going Viral

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Girl with sign at March for Science protest

The Message of the March for Science

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A Recipe for Good Health

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History Lab
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Guided Tours
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Crocidolite asbestos, Pomfret Mine, Vryburg, South Africa.

Flexible Meaning
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Lee Berry with Ambler interviewee Victor Romano.

Tips for Recording Your Family History

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toy robots

Human-Centered Therapy . . . with Robots

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Hach Classroom Drinking-Water Testing Kit.

Hach Classroom Drinking Water Kit
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Clara Esther Hartley lab notes. Special Collections, the Institute

Clara Esther Hartley Lab Notes
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Deb Niemeier
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Alastair Lewis
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Murray Johnston
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Jose-Luis Jimenez
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Peter DeCarlo
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Kenneth Davis
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Ronald C. Cohen
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Wind Map, created by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg

Wind Map
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Diane Burko. Courtesy of the artist.

Waters: Glaciers and Bucks
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Coloring Chemistry

#ColorOurCollections
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Bird with Plastic

Polymer Scientist—Medical Applications
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Science Kits at Play: 2000s

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Science Kits at Play: 1900s

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Pro−Plastic Bag Advocate
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HighWaterLine, New York City. Courtesy of Eve Mosher.

HighWaterLine
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Particle Falls at the Wilma Theater, 2013.

Particle Falls
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Bird with Plastic

Science, Technology, and Society Academic Researcher
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Vaughn Bell poses with her work Village Green.

Home
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About Sensing Change
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Instruments
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Edward Dunlea calibrating an aerosol mass spectrometer at the Storm Peak Laboratory.

Scientists
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Waters: Glaciers and Bucks by Diane Burko.

Art
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Science Kits at Play: 1950s

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Science Kits at Play: 1850s

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Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

REACH Ambler
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Bird with Plastic

Case Study for Waste: Trash and Treasure
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Bird with Plastic

Introduction to Game Scenario
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Bird with Plastic

Game Home
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Science Matters: Role-Playing Games for Students
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pH Meter Illustration

Virtual Chemistry
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Man with arm in sling with dead leopard

This Is Not Your Great-Grandfather’s Taxidermy

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Women in Chemistry

Women in Chemistry
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Historical Biographies
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Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann
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Phillip Sharp.

Phillip Sharp
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Mary Lowe Good.

Mary Lowe Good
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Cottingley Fairy

The Magic of It All

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Skil Craft Biology Lab 1960

It’s Alive!

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Oral History bound books

Oral History Collections
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Babes of Science logo

Babes of Science, a Guest Episode

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Carin Berkowitz

People

Crystal Clear

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Peter Lykos

A Life in Chemistry Computing

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Bridging the Gaps

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