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Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
After 150 years of scrutiny, scholars still misrepresent the British doctor’s life and gender.
How the often-maligned genre was used to train soldiers, explain the weather, and teach us about the modern world.
A crusading doctor’s stomach-churning efforts to beat back pellagra in the American South.
Institute fellow, science historian, and author Lisa Ruth Rand talks about all the debris floating around in outer space.
When Latin America challenged a new era of colonization.
