History of Science Around the Web
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Countway Medical Library: Artifacts of Campaign Against Smallpox
Posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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Harriet Ritvo writes about Lake Thirlmere in Science
Posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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British Lake Helped Ground Environmentalism
Posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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James Cameron Gives Short History/Future of 3D Film
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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Uncovering the Oseberg Ship Burial
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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How to tell a bad month in ancient Peru
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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100 Worst Invasive Species
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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Are Marathon Times Getting Faster?
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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LATimes: Creationists Handing out Re-Prefaced Origin of Species
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago
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Not Making Frankenstein Any Time Soon
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago
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Inventing Green: Your Fantasy Home For A Nuclear War
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago
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Climate Casualty, Hog Island, NYC
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago
The ‘Roots’ of Climate-Gate
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago
Remains of the famous Oseberg ship burial, which Bonde and Stylegar were able to date in the 1990s.
Today, a lot goes into counting tree rings, as we can tell from the back and forth over the statistics and ‘tricks’ of…
Iron Curtain Protected Against Species Invasions
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago
The American comb jelly was accidentally introduced into the Black Sea, to disastrous effect.
As we found in the tale last month of Eugene Schieffelin and the introduction of the American Starling to New York’s Central Park,…
The Last Alchemist: Science in Political Times
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago
Brian Cottoir is the sort of technical guy who doesn’t have a website, but who has tapped into a hip artistic scene drawn to the unusual aesthetics of the historical science that he studies. Cotnoir is a practicing alchemist—by his own admission, one of the last of his kind.
After an hour…
