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Sketch illustration of barren and forbidding field of large stone blocks

Speaking to the Future

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Color illustration of old-timey car chased by animal ghosts

The Toll of the Road

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Color illustration of a 19th-century cholera victim

John Snow Hunts the Blue Death

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Illustration of fairies around water

River Gods, Lake Monsters, and the Abiding Power of Myth

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Mario Molina, left, and F. Sherwood Rowland at the University of California, Irvine, January 1975.

HISTORY This Week: The Sky Is Falling

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Archival photo of Forest Service after the 1910 fires.

Paradise Is Burning

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Wendy Zukerman standing on stage holding microphone, wearing t-shirt that reads "science isn't here to make you feel better."

Predicting the Pandemic

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Mock-up photo of a cellphone displaying a QR code

COVID-19 Health Passports: What’s Old Is New Again

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Nurse Linda Ruggiero poses for portrait wearing face mask.

COVID’s Hidden Toll on Nurses

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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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Cows in a barn

The Washington Post: The Idea of Herd Immunity to Manage the Coronavirus Should Ring Alarm Bells

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Philadelphia Nurse Sara Cohen in her Personal Protective Equipment

Between Us and Catastrophe

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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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A nurse in a mask

Between Us and Catastrophe

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A man in a mine, wearing breathing apparatus and holding a lantern, finds asphyxiated miners. Wood engraving, ca. 1900.

The Alchemical Origins of Occupational Medicine

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Painting of shipwreck in rough seas

Reginald Fessenden and the Invention of Sonar

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Photograph of an operation in a surgical amphitheater

The Nurse Who Introduced Gloves to the Operating Room

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Satirical cartoon on food adulteration from Puck magazine

Harvey Wiley’s Fierce Pursuit of Food Safety

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Jesse Gelsinger photo illustration

The Death of Jesse Gelsinger, 20 Years Later

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Jennifer Doudna at the 2018 Ullyot lecture

Interview: Jennifer Doudna

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Scientific Apparatus at Dearborn Laboratory Facility 1934

The Greening of Chemistry

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