Scientific Discovery

Innovation Day 2019

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Science on Tap event

Science on Tap Untapped: My Love Affair with Science

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A periodic chart depicting the relative abundance of the elements

Science in the National Park

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Jan Uytenbogaert: The Gold Weigher

Be a Historian!

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A hand drops liquid from a dropper into a sugar lump on a spoon while a child sits in the background.

Book Club: The Story of the Polio Vaccine

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Handy Andy Junior Chemistry Lab, 1955.

What We’re Talking About

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The Parasites in Our Past

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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Philadelphia Science Festival

Philadelphia Science Festival

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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Jennifer Doudna presents 2018 Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture

Jennifer Doudna Delivers 2018 Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture at the Science History Institute
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Image of microscope from Robert Hooke's "Micrographia : or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses," 1665.

Through the Lens of Disability

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Image of microscope from Robert Hooke's "Micrographia : or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses," 1665.

Through the Lens of Disability

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Panamanian postage stamp commemorating Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize

What We’re Talking About

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Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

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Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

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Probing the Mysteries of Human Digestion

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Book Club: Simultaneous Discovery and Darwin’s Ghosts

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Science on Tap, Untapped Ruins Everything

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Innovation Day 2018

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon: Ada Lovelace Celebration

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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Age of Alchemy: Curator Elisabeth Berry Drago Discusses Exhibition Highlights and Myth Busting in Alchemy’s Golden Age

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A Study In Scarlet

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Serious Fun

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Second Chances

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From Barbers and Butchers to Modern Surgeons

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For the Love of Science: An Evening of Storytelling

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Science on Tap, Untapped: Schooled by Science

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Putting the Communication Back in Science Communication: An Interview with the Field Museum’s Emily Graslie

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Putting the Communication Back in Science Communication: An Interview with the Field Museum’s Emily Graslie

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Anticipating the Future: Historical Narratives, Imagination, and Innovation
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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

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Museum at the Science History Institute

Drop-In Tour

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Drop-In Tour

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Drop-In Tour

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Reno

Air Born

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Allen G. Debus

A Celebration of the Life and Library of Allen G. Debus, Extraordinary Historian of Early Science and Medicine

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Museum at the Science History Institute

Drop-In Tour

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Drop-In Tour

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WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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Fizzy Water

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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Museum at the Science History Institute

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The Art of Memory

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The Art of Memory

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An 1822 star map by Alexander Jamieson shows the constellation Telescopium Herschelii, depicted here, ironically, as a refracting telescope.

A Giant of Astronomy

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Saturday Speaker: Arrested Decay: How Ghost Towns Romanticize the History of Mining

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From STEM to STEAM: An Interview with Marion Leary

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