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Radium and Beauty Ad for Raidnor Cosmetics. New York Tribune, Nov. 10, 1918

Virtual Book Club: “The Radium Girls—The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women”

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Photo of Katrine Bosley

Interview with Katrine Bosley

Distillations Podcast
William Haseltine on a stage

Interview with William Haseltine

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Susan Weiss headshot

Interview with Susan Weiss

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Photo of Susan Desmond-Hellmann at the Fortune Most Powerful Women

Interview with Sue Desmond-Hellmann

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Image of the Johnny Horizon environmental test kit

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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A close up of a pop-up book

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
Media Coverage
Image of microphone for podcast recording

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
Media Coverage
Science and Disability exhibition

DHA Blog: ExhibitLab at the Science History Institute
Media Coverage
500 Women Scientists at March for Science

AGU Blog: Why Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons Are Needed, and How We Can Help
Media Coverage
Panelists discuss rare earth elements

UCLA Daily Bruin: Panelists Discuss Challenges Caused by Use of Rare Earth Elements
Media Coverage
Scrolling on cell phone

The Hill: R&D, Not Greenland, Can Solve Our Rare Earth Problem
Media Coverage
Mr. Wizard on TV set with children

Science on TV: An Interview with Ingrid Ockert

Distillations Podcast
Science and Disability exhibition

NCPH Blog: Science and Disability Q&A
Media Coverage
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

Distillations Article
Close-up view of valves, pipes, and fittings

Whose Knowledge Counts? Scientists with Cognitive Differences

Distillations Article
Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

Distillations Podcast
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

Distillations Podcast

It’s Nothing New: Sexism in the Lab

Distillations Article
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

Distillations Article

Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures
Research

Cat Craze

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

Distillations Podcast

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
Research

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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Fist and flask graphic

Political Science

Distillations Podcast

A Tear Gas Tale

Distillations Article
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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VIrtual Speaker Series
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Guided Tours
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Crocidolite asbestos, Pomfret Mine, Vryburg, South Africa.

Flexible Meaning
Research
Lee Berry with Ambler interviewee Victor Romano.

Tips for Recording Your Family History

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toy robots

Human-Centered Therapy . . . with Robots

Distillations Podcast
Hach Classroom Drinking-Water Testing Kit.

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

Clara Esther Hartley Lab Notes
Research

Deb Niemeier
Research

Alastair Lewis
Research

Murray Johnston
Research

Jose-Luis Jimenez
Research

Peter DeCarlo
Research

Kenneth Davis
Research

Ronald C. Cohen
Research
Wind Map, created by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg

Wind Map
Research
Diane Burko. Courtesy of the artist.

Waters: Glaciers and Bucks
Research
Coloring Chemistry

#ColorOurCollections
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Bird with Plastic

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

Distillations Video

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Science Kits at Play: 1900s

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Bird with Plastic

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

HighWaterLine
Research
Particle Falls at the Wilma Theater, 2013.

Particle Falls
Research
Bird with Plastic

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

Home
Research

About Sensing Change
Research

Instruments
Research
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
Research

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
Research
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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Students debating in a classroom

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

Distillations Podcast
Women in Chemistry

Women in Chemistry
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Historical Biographies
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Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann
Historical Profile
Phillip Sharp.

Phillip Sharp
Historical Profile
Mary Lowe Good.

Mary Lowe Good
Historical Profile
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
Collections
Babes of Science logo

Babes of Science, a Guest Episode

Distillations Podcast

Carin Berkowitz

People
Making biodiesel

Hands-On Science

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Serious Fun

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Ask a Scientist event

Informal Science

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Crystal Clear

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Making Modernity exhibition at the Museum at CHF.

Making Modernity: A Gallery Preview

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Peter Lykos

A Life in Chemistry Computing

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Bridging the Gaps

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