Information Age (1970 - present)

It’s Nothing New: Sexism in the Lab

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RHex marches up a dune in Pismo Beach, California, carrying a mechanical sensor that scrapes the dune’s surface to detect how much force is needed for the wind to pick up grains of sand.

Thinking on Your Feet—or with Them

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Life Sciences Pioneers Dinner: San Diego

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Life Sciences Pioneers Dinner

Book Club: Frankenstein in the 21st Century

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History Lab: Teacher Workshop

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The Mystery of Yellow Rain

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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures
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Serious Fun

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Hard Work and Happenstance

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A Study In Scarlet

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Second Chances

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Tummy Trouble

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Cat Craze

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Heritage Day

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Carleen Hutchins: Rogue Luthier

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Where to Put It All? Some Thoughts about Collections, Museums, and History

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T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation

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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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Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

Studies in Sustainability
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Innovation and Regulation on the Open Seas: The Development of Sea-Nine Marine Antifouling Paint

Studies in Materials Innovation
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History Lab: Imagination and Data­­

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History Lab: Communities and Data

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History Lab: Bodies and Data

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Philippe Mercier’s The Sense of Smell (1744–1747).

The Scent of a Molecule

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Concrete Solutions

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Stradivari and the Search for Brilliance

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Chemistry in Your Coffee Mug

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The Elements of Fiction

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From STEM to STEAM: An Interview with Marion Leary

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Data from Disaster

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How to Mine an Asteroid

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Labor of Lovelace: A Children’s Introduction to a Programming Giant

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A Legacy of Listening

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Broad Street Review: Eve of Destruction
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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures

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Conserving the Stories They Tell

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Othmer Library Open House: Back-to-School Night

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Scientists with Disabilities

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Still image from Rethinking Ink animation

Rethinking Ink

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Ingredients for Success

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A History of Violence

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Feast or Famine

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Ladies Who Launch

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Love, Peace, and Technoscience

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A Community History
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The Appeal of Hot Air

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Innovation Day 2017
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Science Fiction or Fictional Science?

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Advertisement for various instruments made by Beckman Instruments, Inc. The Institute Collections.

Selling Science in the 20th Century

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Celebrating Preservation: Artist Talks

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Elena Kunadt

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Science on Tap Un-Tapped: Quizzo

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CBS: Elements of Life and Death at Chemical Heritage Museum
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First Friday: Sci-Fi Radio Play

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First Friday: Death and Taxidermy

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First Friday: The Life and Afterlife of Stuff

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How Drinking Beer Is in Our DNA: An Interview with Jessica Zinskie

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