Home & Life
Notebook cover with marbled dye

Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections

Event
Postcard from Carl Magnus von Hell to Georg Bredig

‘Kurrent’ Events
Photo of mattress with spraypainted warning

A Perfect Glutton, Never Ceasing

Distillations Article

Philly Materials Day Online: Experiments for Home
Media Coverage
Downstream museum view

Downstream
A nurse in a mask

Between Us and Catastrophe
Museum
Color illustration of a baker in medieval garb

Stress Baking and the Comfort of Connection

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Edison wax cylinder phonograph

Distilled #12: Edison’s Record Player

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Rubella (German Measles) vaccination clinic in 1969

Roe v. Wade v. Rubella

Distillations Podcast
Mr. Wizard on TV set with children

Science on TV: An Interview with Ingrid Ockert

Distillations Podcast
Satirical cartoon on food adulteration from Puck magazine

Harvey Wiley’s Fierce Pursuit of Food Safety

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Science history photo collage

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

Distillations Podcast
19th century breast reliever

Distilled #7: Bicycle Horn or Breast Pump?

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Photo illustration of woman with migraine

Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

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Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

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Baking Up a Storm

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An early 20th century porcelain painting kit

Distilled #5: Porcelain Painting

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and opioid addict

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Object Explorer
Museum
Photo illustration of poppy flowers and meeting chairs

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

Distillations Podcast
stereoscope with stereograph

Distilled #4: Virtual Reality in the 19th Century

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and prison-hospital for addicts

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Closeup of telegraph sent by Eleanor Roosevelt

Distilled #3: Water Fit for a King

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Distilled #2: An Early (Gold-Plated!) Not-Quite-IUD

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

Distillations Podcast
Curator holding bottle of Lift vitamins.

Distilled #1: Caffeine Pills in Disguise

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Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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Penguins on an iceberg

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures
Research

Cat Craze

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Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès’s Recipe for Margarine

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Letter written by 17th-century scientist Lady Ranelagh

The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh

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Vintage poster of people watching TV

Sci-Fi Radio Drama

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Here Comes the Spray Man!

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Portrait of child, grandmother and two cats

Grandmothers Matter

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Prosthetic arm with strings

ExhibitLab
Museum
Still image from Rethinking Ink animation

Rethinking Ink

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A group of Amish people standing in a field

High-Tech and Amish

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Before and after of laser tattoo removal

Rethinking Ink

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Women’s Work

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A Recipe for Good Health

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A Killer of a Cure

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Old soda spray bottles in various colors

Fizzy Water

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Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot.

Things Fall Apart

Museum
Crocidolite asbestos, Pomfret Mine, Vryburg, South Africa.

Flexible Meaning
Museum
Diagram of sports bra

Second Skin

Distillations Podcast

Imagining a Postcarbon Future

Distillations Article

Second Skin: The Science of Stretch
Museum
Illustration of childbirth

(Natural) Childbirth

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Swedish worker inspects nylon stocking, 1954

Synthetic Threads

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Horiba pH meter. The Institute Collections. Photo by Gregory Tobias

Horiba-Mexa 200 CO Analyzer
Research
Clara Esther Hartley lab notes. Special Collections, the Institute

Clara Esther Hartley Lab Notes
Research

Deanna Day

People

Where Have All the Trailers Gone?

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Roy J. Plunkett with a cable insulated with Teflon and a Teflon-coated muffin tin.

Roy J. Plunkett
Historical Profile
Ellen Swallow, about 1858.

Ellen H. Swallow Richards
Historical Profile

Permanent Exhibition
Museum
Science at Play Exhibit

Science at Play
Museum
Street Gang

Rebel without a Chemistry Set

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Cottingley Fairy

The Magic of It All

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Engraving of half man half woman

Sex and Gender: What We Know and Don’t Know

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Fleischmann’s Yeast for Health campaign

The Healing Power of Compressed Yeast

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Molding a Bright Future in Plastics

It’s a Mad, Mad World: Dow and the Age of Consumption

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Jell-O Mold

Kitchen Chemistry: Jell-O

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Ruining Rags

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Making a Splash: Trouble in the Water

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Bakelite: The First Synthetic Plastic

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From Burned to Learned

From Burned to Learned

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Fiberglas was invented by accident at Corning Glass in the early 1930s. Fiberglas and its competitors helped insulate 1950s homes, with their open floor plans.

In the Pink

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A Good Death

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Recipes and Extracts on Alchemy, Medicine, Metal-Working, Cosmetics, Veterinary Science, Agriculture, Wine-Making, and Other Subjects

The Philosophers’ Stove

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Write for a Free Booklet: Howard Bishop's Crusade to Decontaminate America

Distillations Article
Zenith Royal M transistor hearing aid

Sound Waves

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oke bottles in

The Real Thing: How Coke Became Kosher

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Set of 19th-century Hyatt billiard balls

Celluloid: The Eternal Substitute

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Full-length illustration of a fashionably dressed flapper standing with one hand on her hip and a cigarette in the other hand. A stream of smoke from the cigarette forms a curving, twisting, decorative line.

Counting Calories

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