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Antiquity (500 BCE - 500 CE)
Sketch illustration of barren and forbidding field of large stone blocks

Speaking to the Future

Distillations Article
Illustration of fairies around water

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

Distillations Article
picture of a fox

How Climate Change Will Remake the Human Body

Distillations Podcast
video game renderings of cleopatra, teddy roosevelt, and Ghandi

Interview with Jeremiah McCall

Distillations Podcast
Photo rendering of ancient greece

Learning History with Video Games

Distillations Podcast
Woman in laboratory at Hercules Hopewell plant

Women in Science
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Snakes and Letters

Distillations Article

From Ancient to Art Nouveau

Distillations Article
Walter Potter's Monkey Riding a Goat

Death and Taxidermy

Distillations Video

The Alchemical Quest
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Arabic astronomers

Seek Knowledge as Far as China

Distillations Article
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