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Man in American themed boxers, carrying a semiautomatic rifle

How Did Guns Get So Powerful?

Decade by decade, firearms have become deadlier—and tightened their grip on our collective imagination.

by Phil Klay via The New Yorker on June 11, 2022

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Scientists Understood Physics of Climate Change in the 1800s – Thanks to a Woman Named Eunice Foote

The results of Foote's simple experiments were confirmed through hundreds of tests by scientists in the US and Europe. It happened more than a century ago.

by Sylvia G. Dee via The Conversation on July 22, 2021

The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table

From poisoned monks and nuclear bombs to the “transfermium wars,” mapping the atomic world hasn’t been easy.

by Neima Jahromi via The New Yorker on December 27, 2019

Hooded person shining a laser pointer at an airplane in the dark

A Blinding History of the Laser Pointer

They can wreck your eyes, and they can land you 14 years in jail for shining one at a police chopper. But where did they come from?

by Ian Lecklitner via MEL on August 20, 2019

People dancing at Woodstock

When Science Was Groovy

Counterculture-inspired research flourished in the Age of Aquarius.

by W. Patrick McCray, David I. Kaiser via Science on August 5, 2019

Jeff Bezos Dreams of a 1970s Future

If the sci-fi space cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin look familiar, it’s because they’re derived from the work of his college professor.

by Fred Scharmen via CityLab on May 13, 2019

French elites at an eighteenth-century erotic seance.

Mesmerising Science: The Franklin Commission and the Modern Clinical Trial

Benjamin Franklin, magnetic trees, and erotically-charged séances.

by Urte Laukaityte via The Public Domain Review on November 20, 2018

Science’s Freedom Fighters

Why do Americans get so worked up by the basic assertion that all science is political?

by W. Patrick McCray via Los Angeles Review of Books on November 18, 2018

Poems of the Manhattan Project

John Canaday's poems look at nuclear weapons from the intimate perspectives of its developers.

via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on September 30, 2014

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