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Sketch illustration of barren and forbidding field of large stone blocks

Speaking to the Future

Distillations Article
Color illustration of old-timey car chased by animal ghosts

The Toll of the Road

Distillations Article
Color illustration of a 19th-century cholera victim

John Snow Hunts the Blue Death

Distillations Article
Illustration of fairies around water

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

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

HISTORY This Week: The Sky Is Falling

Media Coverage
Archival photo of Forest Service after the 1910 fires.

Paradise Is Burning

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

Predicting the Pandemic

Distillations Podcast
Mock-up photo of a cellphone displaying a QR code

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

Distillations Article
Nurse Linda Ruggiero poses for portrait wearing face mask.

COVID’s Hidden Toll on Nurses

Distillations Podcast
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

Distillations Podcast
Painting of shipwreck in rough seas

Reginald Fessenden and the Invention of Sonar

Distillations Article
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

Distillations Article
Jesse Gelsinger photo illustration

The Death of Jesse Gelsinger, 20 Years Later

Distillations Article
Jennifer Doudna at the 2018 Ullyot lecture

Interview: Jennifer Doudna

Distillations Article
Scientific Apparatus at Dearborn Laboratory Facility 1934

The Greening of Chemistry

Distillations Article
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