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Philadelphia Magazine: Explore Philly from Your Couch with These Virtual Tours of Local Attractions
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Cuban postage stamp commemorating Pierre and Marie Curie’s discovery of radium

Philadelphia Inquirer | In Museums: Suffrage, Scandal, Sloths, and Rebellion
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Science History Institute Museum

Condé Nast Traveler: 15 Best Museums in Philadelphia
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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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Attendees gather at the monthly Wikisalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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Image of microphone for podcast recording

Gettingsmart.com: 100 Podcasts You Should Check Out
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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

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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 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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Photo illustration of woman with migraine

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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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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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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Ad featuring a rat

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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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Life on Mars

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Political Scientist

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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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Saturday Speaker Series
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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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WikiSalon

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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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Home Away from Home

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toy robots

Human-Centered Therapy . . . with Robots

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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

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Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann
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Lead Balloon Contest

Up, Up, and Away

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Jovana Grbic

Scripted Science

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Science made it on air soon after the first appearance of the television. But from the beginning science programming has faced the challenge of being both entertaining and educational.

On the Air

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Deborah Harkness

Facts and Fictions

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DuPont car paint ad

Colors Run Riot

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Serious Fun

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H. R. MacMillan Space Centre

Lost in Space

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Artwork from the graphic novel Trinity

Graphic History

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A sample of Salvarsan from 1936

Early Solution

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Wallace H. Carothers, shown here with neoprene.

Wallace Hume Carothers
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Gordon Moore at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in 2005.

Gordon E. Moore
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Rachel Carson.

Rachel Carson
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