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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 a beaker containing a bright green liquid. On the desk in front of him is a number of scientific implements.

The Case of Continental Classroom

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Suburban house with electric car in driveway

Mashable: Do Something Good for Earth Day
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Science and Disability Interviews
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Physics Today: Six Podcasts for Science Lovers
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Science history photo collage

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

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Book Club
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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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Science History Institute Museum

Condé Nast Traveler: 11 Best Museums in Philadelphia
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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

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Harry versus the Volcano

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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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Fellow in Focus Lecture: science television

An Electric Education: How to Teach Science on Television

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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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It’s Alive! The Scientific Roots of Monsters

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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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WikiSalon

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WikiSalon: Ada Lovelace Celebration

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Woman and penguins in Antarctica

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

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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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Putting the Communication Back in Science Communication: 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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Museum at the Science History Institute

Drop-In Tour

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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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Museum at the Science History Institute

Drop-In Tour

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Here Comes the Spray Man!

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Fizzy Water

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Museum at the Science History Institute

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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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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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First Friday: Death and Taxidermy

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First Friday: The Life and Afterlife of Stuff

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Political Science

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Life on Mars

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Political Scientist

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First Friday: The Science of Shelley’s “Frankenstein”

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Things Fall Apart Exhibition Opening

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

Making Senses

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How to Make Magical Clothing with Tech

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1950s ad for Mum cream deodorant

The Smell of Shame

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Idea Lab: Students Talk Gender and Science

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Grindhouse Wetware’s Northstar device in 2015.

Hacking Humans

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First Friday: Alchemical Storytime

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Saturday Speaker

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Saturday Speaker: A Fourth Quarter Performance

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Saturday Speaker Series
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First Friday: How Beer Fueled Civilization

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First Friday: Science History Tournament

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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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