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Red and yellow test tubes on cover of Health Technology and Science ibook
Health, Technology and Science: Today & Yesterday
The Biosphere 2 complex is an earth system science research facility near Tucson, AZ.
Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth
“Aux amateurs de physique.” Likewise portraying the Tuileries flight, this cartoon mocks the unwashed masses who wished to see the spectacle without a ticket, but the scaling of the garden walls also illustrates how the balloon as a “people-machine” ignited the determination of the poorer, disempowered social strata to overcome restraints imposed on them by the authoritarian regime.
Public Perceptions: Ballooning and Political Culture
This is the third Strasbourg astronomical clock which is located in the Notre-Dame Cathedral and was built in 1843, the first clock was built 1352-1354.
Paleotechnic Machines in the Middle Ages
The ship Ile de Sein laying fiber-optic cable off the west coast of Canada, 2007.
From the Transatlantic Telephone to the iPhone
The Mars explorer Curiosity's view back at its own tracks after crossing a sand dune in 2014.
Mariner 9: Opening The Martian Frontier
Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans
400 Years Ago the Catholic Church Prohibited Copernicanism
melting glaciers
Top Ten Origins: Climate Change
From the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa.
Top Ten Origins: Climate Change
lab tech with vaccine
Vaccines and Responsible Parenthood
Book Cover of Brain, Mind and Internet: A Deep History and Future By: David J. Staley
9/22/2014 Hot off the Presses: Your Brain on the Internet
Predator drone.
Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones
Albert Hofmann
Albert Hofmann Discovers LSD
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.
The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch Book Cover.
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
Depiction of Isaac Newton
A “God Particle” for Isaac Newton’s Birthday
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, by Charles Thorpe Book Cover
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs Book Cover
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
Cover of The Anatomy Murders by Lisa Rosner
The Anatomy Murders
Sputnik
Soviets Launch Sputnik, 1957
Cover of the Measure of Earth The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World by Larrie D. Ferreiro
Figuring Out the Shape of the World
Cover of Space Travel, November 1958
Gingrich and Romney: Right and Wrong on Space Travel
In the last fifty years, global agricultural practices have favored growing ever fewer varieties of high-yielding crops, leading to fears that the loss of genetic diversity in food leaves the growing human population exposed to risks of food shortages from disease, pests, and climate change.
Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks
Oil and coal dominated U.S. energy production in the twentieth century.
Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America