Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
In the 1850s science kits were a source of rational and educational entertainment.
This video was created as part of a collaboration between Distillations and students in a commercial animation class at University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
What makes a Stradivarius so special? For decades instrument makers, musicians, and even scientists have tried to find out but with inconclusive results.
In the 1950s comic books took Mexico’s youth by storm. But alongside familiar superhuman avengers were other kinds of heroes: real-life chemists.
The pirate-turned-naturalist-turned-pirate-again inspired generations of British writers and scientists.
Biologist John Calhoun’s rodent experiments gripped a society consumed by fears of overpopulation.
