Sarah Everts

As an Ullyot Scholar at the Institute, Sarah Everts worked on her project “Sweat Science: The Science, Culture, History, and Commercialization of Perspiration, the Chemical Cocktail That Humanity Produces in Abundant Amounts.”

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Information Overload

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Data overload is nothing new. How have people in the past managed their versions of big data?

A Brief History of Chemical War

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For more than 2,000 years human ingenuity has turned natural and synthetic poisons into weapons of war.

Processed: Food Science and the Modern Meal

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Preserved food and civilization go together like bagels and lox. The early 20th century was an especially rich time for creating new ways to process food and for understanding old ways of preservation. But even now scientists can be surprised by what they find.

Over the Wall: Six Stories from East Germany

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When Communist East Germany built a wall across Berlin, it created two different cities, two different countries, and for scientists two different careers. These differences did not all collapse when the wall came down. Six chemists, all former citizens of East Germany, share their memories of work, school, and life before and after reunification.