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An artist's rendering of the Tunguska event
The 1908 Tunguska Event and the Threats of Tomorrow
a Galapagos sea turtle swimming in the ocean
What’s “Natural” on the Galapagos Islands?
A 1950s flyer describing fluoride as rat poison, the polio vaccine as a communist conspiracy to bring about socialized medicine, and mental health as a Jewish plot to imprison anti-Semites in insane asylums.
Toxic Treatment: Fluoride's Transformation from Industrial Waste to Public Health Miracle
Title page of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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