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Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell?

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Greenbacks, Chits, and Scrip

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Between Us and Catastrophe exhibition

‘Philadelphia Weekly’ Spotlights Institute’s Oral History Program, ‘Between Us and Catastrophe’ Exhibition

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Ad for colored stockings 1955

Ex Libris Universum: Museum Tour

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Impressionist painting of a lily pond

Could Claude Monet See Like a Bee?

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Illustration of women in colorful clothing

Fit to Be Dyed

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video game renderings of cleopatra, teddy roosevelt, and Ghandi

Interview with Jeremiah McCall

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Photo rendering of ancient greece

Learning History with Video Games

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Ladies Talking to Ladies about Ladies (in Science)

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Picture of Colin Dickey

Bonus Episode: Interview with Colin Dickey

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Portrait of the Fox sisters, spiritualists in the mid 19th-century.

Ghost Hunting in the 19th Century

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Vampire preys on a sick woman

Vampire Panic

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Portrait of Lady Ranelagh

Nature: An Incomparable Intellectual Who Fell through the Cracks of History

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Podcast team records at Laurel Hill Cemetery

Welp Magazine: 20 Best Books- and History-Related Podcasts of 2021

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Official Netflix movie poster for Space Sweepers

Inverse: Netflix’s Sci-Fi Epic Reveals a Real-Life Cosmic Danger

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A nurse in a mask

Hidden City Philadelphia: A Year in Ruins

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Man pulling on a white tube of polymer

Bob Gore’s Cozy Revolution

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A nurse in a mask

UWISHUNU: The Top Things to Do in Philly This Week & Weekend, November 2–8

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Bike delivery person in a mask

PhillyVoice: Photos of Essential Workers to Be Displayed by the Science History Institute

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Mask makers shown with a sewing machine and their dog

Science History Institute Debuts New Outdoor Exhibition

Press Release

A nurse in a mask

Between Us and Catastrophe

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Cartoon of mechanic getting electricuted

Comics: Old-School Distance-Learning Tools

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A Silent, Savage Menace: Reassessing "Panic in the Streets"

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Illustration of sirens on rocks with phonograph

The Inventions That Made Us Who We Are

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Michael Somogyi and Unidentified Women in Laboratory

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Readers Rapidly Identify Renowned Scientist

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Screenshot of Twitter post

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Anonymous Too Long—STL Women Shorted on Credit for Scientific Work

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Fire in the Cuyahoga River with a firefighter boat blasting water

The Myth of the Cuyahoga River Fire

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A man holds up a model of the molecular structure of crystals.

The Case of Continental Classroom

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Science history photo collage

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

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Still from Where Are My Children: At the end of the film the Waltons are visited by the spectral images of their offspring, first as children and then as young adults.

Where Are My Children? Public Health in the Movies

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19th century breast reliever

Distilled #7: Bicycle Horn or Breast Pump?

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Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

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Harry versus the Volcano

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Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

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Family Practice

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Saving Old Movies

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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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An early 20th century porcelain painting kit

Distilled #5: Porcelain Painting

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and opioid addict

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Object Explorer

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and meeting chairs

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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stereoscope with stereograph

Distilled #4: Virtual Reality in the 19th Century

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and prison-hospital for addicts

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

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Closeup of telegraph sent by Eleanor Roosevelt

Distilled #3: Water Fit for a King

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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Penguins on an iceberg

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

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Photo of automaton hand drawing a picture on paper

Serious Fun

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Second Chances

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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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Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

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Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès’s Recipe for Margarine

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The Elements of Fiction

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Vintage poster of people watching TV

Sci-Fi Radio Drama

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Here Comes the Spray Man!

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Fizzy Water

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Vintage margarine ad

Butter vs. Margarine

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Stradivari and the Search for Brilliance

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Portrait of child, grandmother and two cats

Grandmothers Matter

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More than Peach Crayons

ExhibitLab

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Still image from Rethinking Ink animation

Rethinking Ink

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Love, Peace, and Technoscience

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Science Fiction or Fictional Science?

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Fist and flask graphic

Political Science

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Political Scientist

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Life on Mars

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Before and after of laser tattoo removal

Rethinking Ink

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A Recipe for Good Health

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A Killer of a Cure

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Print of Giovanni Francesco Camocio's "Humani Victus Instrumenta"

Making Senses

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1950s ad for Mum cream deodorant

The Smell of Shame

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Grindhouse Wetware’s Northstar device in 2015.

Hacking Humans

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Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot.

Things Fall Apart

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LZR Racer

Winning Skin

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Amputation

Auld Medicine

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Tim Cannon

Fast Forward

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Scent of Mystery ad

The Third Sense

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Rachel Carson on Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, 1945.

Drop-In Tours

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Nitrous oxide party

High Times

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Diagram of sports bra

Second Skin

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Still Life

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Just what is it . . . (1956)

Richard Hamilton’s Plastic Problem

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Imagining a Postcarbon Future

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Second Skin: The Science of Stretch

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Illustration of childbirth

(Natural) Childbirth

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Swedish worker inspects nylon stocking, 1954

Synthetic Threads

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Walter Potter's Monkey Riding a Goat

Death and Taxidermy

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Illustration of children taking medicine

Best of 2016: Insiders vs. Outsiders in Medicine

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toy robots

Human-Centered Therapy . . . with Robots

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Home Away from Home

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Tho-Radia ad

The Secrets of Life

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Deanna Day

People

Garry Kasparov plays a computer in chess

Thinking Machines: The Search for Artificial Intelligence

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Cloud chamber from the A. C. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, ca. 1950.

Hazardous Fun

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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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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Historical Biographies

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Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann

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Artwork from the graphic novel Trinity

Graphic History

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