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Middle Ages (400 - 1500)
Cartoon of a pig in a courtroom

Kangaroo (and Pig and Monkey and Dog and Donkey) Courts

Distillations Podcast
Screenshot from A Discovery of Witches TV show

What the All Souls Trilogy Teaches Us about Alchemy, Family, and Knowledge Hierarchy

Distillations Podcast
18th century mythological painting of Greek goddess Eos and Tithonus

Chasing Immortality

Distillations Podcast
C.C. Dennis using mortar and pestle at Dearborn laboratory

Science History Institute Debuts ‘Mechanochemistry: The Science of Crush’ Digital Exhibition
Press Release
Mock-up photo of a cellphone displaying a QR code

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

Distillations Article
Genre oil painting

Quacks, Plagues, and Pandemics

Distillations Article
Photo illustration of woman with migraine

Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

Distillations Podcast
Close up of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s astronomy textbook, De Sphaera Mundi (On the Sphere of the World).

Distilled #6: A 17th-Century (Interactive!) Astronomy Textbook

Distillations Video

Snakes and Letters

Distillations Article
Walter Potter's Monkey Riding a Goat

Death and Taxidermy

Distillations Video
Agnieszka Rec

Agnieszka Rec

People
Theodore W. Richards in the laboratory.

Theodore William Richards
Historical Profile
Deborah Harkness

Facts and Fictions

Distillations Article
Arabic astronomers

Seek Knowledge as Far as China

Distillations Article
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