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  • Book Review
    • Dec 12, 2021 Telling Time in Tokugawa Japan: Physics Today
    • Oct 27, 2021 One of the Most Egregious Ripoffs in the History Of Science | Nautilus
    • Oct 10, 2021 Book Review: The Mirage of a Town Without Cellphones | Undark
    • Aug 15, 2021 On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking: Literary Hub
    • Jul 11, 2021 When Science Breaks Bad | Arstechnica
    • Jul 8, 2021 An Incomparable Intellectual Who Fell Through the Cracks of History | Nature
    • Jun 21, 2021 Martin Lister and His Daughters | Scientific Illustrators
    • Jun 14, 2021 Revisiting the 'She Doctor' Panic of 1869 | Undark Magazine
    • Apr 15, 2021 The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy | Undark Magazine
    • Mar 14, 2021 A scientist and Dancer | Undark | Arstechnica
    • Nov 3, 2020 The Classification of Humankind, and the Birth of Population Science | The MIT Press Reader
    • Oct 8, 2020 How Storytellers Use Math ( Without Scaring People Away) | Literary Hub
  • History of Exploration
    • Nov 21, 2021 Bridge of Ropes |Ecuador 1802 | Alexander von Humboldt
    • Nov 14, 2021 Ustad Mansur | Dodo Raphus cucullatus
    • Jul 13, 2021 ‘I am 'Ali Wallace’, the Malay Assistant of Alfred Russel Wallace: an Excerpt | The Conversation
    • Jun 9, 2021 Annie M. Alexander: Paleontologist and Silent Benefactor | JSTOR Daily
    • Feb 15, 2021 Operation Deep Freeze
  • History of Science
    • Mar 11, 2025 The Comet Panic of 1910, Revisited | Science History Institute
    • Dec 16, 2022 Reading the Horizon/Lapham's Quarterly
    • Sep 13, 2022 Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic | IEEE Spectrum
    • May 26, 2022 Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell | Distillations | Science History Institute
    • May 6, 2022 Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Ants | Nautilus
    • Apr 27, 2022 AI's First Philosopher | Aeon
    • Apr 6, 2022 The Simple Usefulness of the Secchi Disc | Science History Institute
    • Jan 26, 2022 Wealth or Science | John Tyndall on Michael Faraday
    • Dec 26, 2021 Calculate but Don't Shut Up | AEON
    • Dec 12, 2021 Telling Time in Tokugawa Japan: Physics Today
    • Dec 5, 2021 Why Are There So Many Kinds of Phytoplankton ? | Hakai Magazine
    • Nov 24, 2021 Ruth Patrick's Lovely Creatures | Distillations
    • Nov 7, 2021 Vannevar Bush Invents the Future | Cosmos Magazine
    • Nov 3, 2021 The Cactaceae | Monograph | 1919 -1923 | Landmark Studies
    • Oct 27, 2021 One of the Most Egregious Ripoffs in the History Of Science | Nautilus
    • Oct 24, 2021 The Name of Microscope | The Microscope and Its Revelations
    • Oct 20, 2021 The Early Origins and Development of the Scatterplot | Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
    • Oct 17, 2021 Darwin's Barnacles | Science History Institute
    • Oct 13, 2021 Can Statistics Help Crack the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript? | Knowable Magazine
    • Oct 10, 2021 Book Review: The Mirage of a Town Without Cellphones | Undark
    • Oct 6, 2021 On the Art and Science of Making Buildings Sound Natural | Aeon Essays
    • Oct 3, 2021 200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor | IEEE Spectrum
    • Aug 24, 2021 A Biography of Pixel | Aeon Essays
    • Aug 15, 2021 On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking: Literary Hub
    • Aug 10, 2021 Flora, Fauna and ... Funga? | Undark Magazine
    • Aug 3, 2021 The Long Road to Maxwell's Equations - IEEE Spectrum
    • Jul 29, 2021 Physics of Birds and Bees | Cosmos Magazine
    • Jul 22, 2021 Physicists' Early Dreams of Nuclear Powered Spacefligth | Physics Central
    • Jul 13, 2021 ‘I am 'Ali Wallace’, the Malay Assistant of Alfred Russel Wallace: an Excerpt | The Conversation
    • Jul 11, 2021 When Science Breaks Bad | Arstechnica
    • Jul 6, 2021 Future Calculations | Distillations | Science History Institute
    • Jun 28, 2021 Lucian’s Trips to the Moon | The Public Domain Review
    • Jun 24, 2021 On Humming Birds | As reported in 1693
    • Jun 17, 2021 Wasaburo Ooishi and the Jet Stream | Cosmos Magazine
    • Jun 14, 2021 Revisiting the 'She Doctor' Panic of 1869 | Undark Magazine
    • Jun 11, 2021 Helen M. Free and Alfred Free | Science History Institute
    • Jun 3, 2021 A Blight on Soviet Science | Damn Interesting
    • May 29, 2021 The End Of Time | Nautilus Magazine
    • May 24, 2021 Ernest Rutherford's Ambitions | Physics Today
    • May 14, 2021 Visualizing History : The Polish System - The Public Domain Review
    • Apr 15, 2021 The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy | Undark Magazine
    • Apr 12, 2021 For the Sake of Science | Distillations | Science History Institute
    • Apr 3, 2021 Medieval Weather Prediction | Physics Today
    • Mar 31, 2021 Suggested Readings | AEON | LowTechMagazine | MIT Press Reader
    • Mar 30, 2021 The High-Flying, Death-Defying Discovery of Helium | Science History Institute
    • Mar 12, 2021 An 81-Year-Old Snapper | Hakai Magazine
    • Mar 10, 2021 The Battery Invented 120 Years Before its Time - BBC Future
    • Mar 8, 2021 Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels | Nautilus
    • Mar 1, 2021 Walter Friedrich, pioneer of X-ray diffraction | Penn State News
    • Feb 23, 2021 Charles Darwin’s Descent of Man, 150 Years Later | JSTOR Daily
    • Feb 22, 2021 The Factorial Notation | Christian Kramp | 1808
    • Feb 16, 2021 How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers | Literary Hub
    • Feb 11, 2021 Faxes, Mascots, and Manga: Science Communication in Japan | Physics Today
    • Feb 8, 2021 Scientists for the People | AEON Magazine
    • Jan 27, 2021 New Light Shed on Charles Darwin's 'Abominable Mystery' | BBC
    • Jan 4, 2021 A Lunar Pandemic | AEON Magazine
    • Dec 16, 2020 The Dream of Total Information Became a Nightmare in Postwar China | Aeon Essays
    • Dec 8, 2020 How Modern Mathematics Emerged From a Lost Islamic Library | BBC Future
    • Dec 4, 2020 The Doctor Who Challenged the Unicorn Myth | Wellcome Collection
    • Dec 2, 2020 When Birds Migrated to the Moon | The MIT Press Reader
    • Nov 20, 2020 Digging for Dorothea | The Royal Society Blog
    • Nov 18, 2020 “Let us Calculate!” | Public Domain Review
    • Nov 16, 2020 Inside the Secret Math Society Known Simply as Nicolas Bourbaki | Quanta Magazine
    • Nov 13, 2020 How the Elements Got Their Names | Distillations
    • Nov 8, 2020 A Quest to Protect the World's Last Silent Places | Outside Online
    • Nov 3, 2020 The Classification of Humankind, and the Birth of Population Science | The MIT Press Reader
    • Oct 29, 2020 The Strange Ingredients Found in Vaccines | BBC Future
    • Oct 23, 2020 The Moon Will Soon Have Cell Service | Popular Science
    • Oct 4, 2020 Alchemy Arrives in a Burst of Light | Quanta Magazine
    • Oct 1, 2020 Why Did Renaissance Europeans See Merpeople Everywhere? | Lit Hub
    • Sep 28, 2020 Your Friendly Neighborhood Inoculator | Lapham's Quarterly
    • Sep 23, 2020 Scientists Use Seaweeds to Travel Back in Time | Hakai Magazine
    • Sep 22, 2020 How Algorithms Discern Our Mood From What We Write Online | Knowable Magazine
    • Sep 17, 2020 The Paris Morgue Provided Ghoulish Entertainment | JSTOR Daily
    • Sep 16, 2020 When Math Gets Impossibly Hard | Quanta Magazine
    • Sep 10, 2020 Mummies Among Us | Aeon
    • Aug 29, 2020 A Short History of Aquaculture Innovation | Hakai Magazine
    • Aug 20, 2020 The Pioneering Surgeons Who Cleaned up Filthy Hospitals | BBC
    • Aug 16, 2020 Alfred Wegener and the Continental Drift | COSMOS | Jeff Glorfeld
    • Aug 14, 2020 Waking Life | Laphams's Quarterly
    • Aug 10, 2020 Claude Bernard | French Physiologist | 1813-1878
    • Aug 9, 2020 Sarah Frances Whiting and the “Photography of the Invisible” | Physics Today
    • Aug 6, 2020 On the Great and Terrible Hurricane of 1938 | Lit Hub
    • Aug 4, 2020 Maria Ylagan Orosa and the Chemistry of Resistance | Lady Science
    • Aug 3, 2020 Darwin, Expression, and the Lasting Legacy of Eugenics | The MIT Press Reader
    • Aug 2, 2020 Casimir Funk Introduced us to Vitamins | COSMOS Magazine
    • Jul 23, 2020 Clamshell Currency | Hakai Magazine
    • Jul 21, 2020 Rosalind Franklin's Legacy Celebrated With Commemorative 50p Coin | King's College London
    • Jul 20, 2020 The History of Cheating Death: A Timeline of Cryonics | BBC Science Focus
    • Jul 18, 2020 How 19th Century Scientists Predicted Global Warming | JSTOR Daily
    • Jul 13, 2020 The Dr. Strange of the American Revolution | Nautilus Blog
    • Jul 12, 2020 The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories | Quanta Magazine
    • Jul 10, 2020 Isaac Newton and the Perils of the Financial South Sea | Physics Today
    • Jul 8, 2020 Model Victorians | The Royal Society Blog
    • Jul 7, 2020 A Brief History of Ventilation | Wellcome Collection
    • Jul 6, 2020 Would a Book Lie? | Distillations | Science History Institute
    • Jul 1, 2020 Sicko Doctors | The Public Domain Review
    • Jun 30, 2020 The First English Female Aerial Traveller | Science Museum Blog
    • Jun 25, 2020 Air Conditioning Wasn’t Invented to Provide Comfort to Human Beings | IEEE Spectrum
    • Jun 8, 2020 Are Ghosts Haunting the British Museum? | 1843 Magazine
  • Life Stories
    • May 6, 2022 Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Ants | Nautilus
    • Jan 26, 2022 Wealth or Science | John Tyndall on Michael Faraday
    • Nov 28, 2021 Jack Miner and the Birds | by Jack Miner (1865-1944)
    • Nov 24, 2021 Ruth Patrick's Lovely Creatures | Distillations
    • Nov 17, 2021 Alexander Wilson | 1766-1813 | American Ornithology
    • Oct 27, 2021 One of the Most Egregious Ripoffs in the History Of Science | Nautilus
    • Sep 9, 2021 Ms. Hisako Koyama: From Amateur Astronomer to Long-Term Solar Observer | Space Weather
    • Aug 26, 2021 Francis Bacon | A Handy Book of Curious Information
    • Aug 1, 2021 Physics Loses a Giant | Science News
    • Jul 8, 2021 An Incomparable Intellectual Who Fell Through the Cracks of History | Nature
    • Jul 1, 2021 Dear Aunt | Letter | James Clerk Maxwell
    • Jun 20, 2021 Darwin’s Children Drew All Over the On The Origin of Species Manuscript | The Appendix
    • Jun 11, 2021 Helen M. Free and Alfred Free | Science History Institute
    • Jun 9, 2021 Annie M. Alexander: Paleontologist and Silent Benefactor | JSTOR Daily
    • Jun 3, 2021 A Blight on Soviet Science | Damn Interesting
    • May 29, 2021 The End Of Time | Nautilus Magazine
    • May 24, 2021 Ernest Rutherford's Ambitions | Physics Today
    • Apr 12, 2021 For the Sake of Science | Distillations | Science History Institute
    • Mar 14, 2021 A scientist and Dancer | Undark | Arstechnica
  • Science & Art
    • Jan 19, 2022 The Alien Beauty and Creepy Fascination of Insect Art
    • Nov 14, 2021 Ustad Mansur | Dodo Raphus cucullatus
    • Oct 6, 2021 On the Art and Science of Making Buildings Sound Natural | Aeon Essays
    • Sep 28, 2021 The Poetry of Victorian Science | The Public Domain Review
    • Aug 17, 2021 Margaret Leiteritz | Science in Culture | Nature (2004)
    • Aug 8, 2021 The Spiralist | The Public Domain Review
    • Jul 28, 2021 Frogs Want to Be Heard | The MIT Press Reader
    • Jul 4, 2021 To His Wife | Poem | James Clerk Maxwell
    • Jun 21, 2021 Martin Lister and His Daughters | Scientific Illustrators
    • Mar 3, 2021 On Polar Bears and Art | The Conversation
    • Jan 29, 2021 Early Illustrations of the Nervous System by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal | The Public Domain Review
    • Jan 14, 2021 The Art of Whaling | The Public Domain Review
    • Dec 7, 2020 When Science Was the Best Show in America | Nautilus Magazine
    • Dec 1, 2020 En Pleine Mer: The Underwater Landscapes of Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez | The Public Domain Review
    • Nov 9, 2020 Aurora Borealis(1865) by Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900)
    • Oct 19, 2020 Fallen - A Robert Hooke Musical | The Royal Society Blog
    • Oct 11, 2020 Comics: Old-School Distance-Learning Tools | Science History Institute
    • Sep 15, 2020 Primary Sources/ A Natural History of the Artist's Palette/The Public Domain Review
    • Sep 11, 2020 Cracking a Rembrandt Mystery | Cosmos Magazine
    • Aug 23, 2020 Galileo the Artist | Nature
    • Aug 18, 2020 Butterflies: How Two 19th-Century Teenage Sisters’ Forgotten Paintings Sparked a Triumph of Modern Conservation | Brain Pickings
    • Aug 13, 2020 Why the First Drawings of Neurons Were Defaced | Quanta Magazine | 2017
    • Aug 7, 2020 James Watt and the Steam Engine: the Dawn of the Nineteenth Century
    • Jul 31, 2020 Old Paintings Reveal How Fruits and Vegetables Have Evolved Over the Centuries | Vice
    • Jul 29, 2020 An experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump | Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768
    • Jul 28, 2020 The Mystery of the Missing Portrait of Robert Hooke | The Conversation
    • Jul 15, 2020 The Doctor by Gerard Dou | Book Excerpt
    • Jul 14, 2020 The Comet Book (1587) | The Public Domain Review
    • Jul 2, 2020 "Unlike any Other Upon the Globe" | Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
    • Jun 23, 2020 Hashime Murayama and the Art of Saving Lives | Distillations | Science History Institute
 
 
 

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