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Pandemics: Today and Yesterday	“Give Earth a Chance”: Earth Day and the Politics of Modern Environmentalism	The Amazon Rainforest under Threat
Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective	A Century of HIV	America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System
Toxic Treatment: Fluoride's Transformation from Industrial Waste to Public Health Miracle	Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth	The West without Water: What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow?
Russia and the Race for the Arctic	Climate, Human Population and Human Survival: What the Deep Past Tells Us about the Future	Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks
Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America	Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal	'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan
Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again	Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis	Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis
Charles Darwin’s American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts	A Tale of Two Fisheries: Fishing and Over-Fishing in American Waters	Borne by the Waves: The Ocean’s Role in Global Trade
The Society That Started It All: The Origins of Modern Science	Built Upon Bounty	Public Perceptions: Ballooning and Political Culture
Paleotechnic Machines in the Middle Ages	The Space In Between	Executive Conservation
Where’s that Sexy History Under There?	Rough Weather Ahead	Vaccines and Responsible Parenthood
All Aboard!: A Train Ride through the British Twentieth Century in 100 Maps	Government Fingers in the Health Care Jar?	Rome's Wondrous Rivers
Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?	Play, Paranoia, and American Childhood in the Great Outdoors	Famine: A Short History
Before There Was Swine Flu	The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction	In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism	Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect	Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective
Early American Contagions	Pandemic Redux: Revisiting Cincinnati’s 1849 Cholera in the Age of COVID-19	Cholera and the Roots of Public Health
The Justinianic Plague	The Black Death and its Aftermath	COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership
The Respirator and Cloth Mask	Corona in Context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic (2003)	Pandemics: Past, Present, Future
Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety	July 2019: Fly Me to the Moon	Chernobyl and the Cost of Lies
March 2019: Mendeleev's Periodic Table	The Nature of World War II	November 2018: The 1918 Flu Pandemic
Top Ten Origins: The Universe’s Greatest Hits	The 1908 Tunguska Event and the Threats of Tomorrow	What’s “Natural” on the Galapagos Islands?
Environment: Today and Yesterday	Health, Technology and Science: Today & Yesterday	The Sixth Extinction and Our Unraveling World
Top Ten Origins: Flu	A Postcard from Solovki	The Greening of China?

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