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black and white photo of man in an enclosure

Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell?

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Torn red piece of company scrip

Greenbacks, Chits, and Scrip

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Illustration of women in colorful clothing

Fit to Be Dyed

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Vampire preys on a sick woman

Vampire Panic

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Man pulling on a white tube of polymer

Bob Gore’s Cozy Revolution

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Harry versus the Volcano

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Saving Old Movies

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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Second Chances

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

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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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Fizzy Water

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Vintage margarine ad

Butter vs. Margarine

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Portrait of child, grandmother and two cats

Grandmothers Matter

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Still image from Rethinking Ink animation

Rethinking Ink

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Fist and flask graphic

Political Science

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Before and after of laser tattoo removal

Rethinking Ink

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A Recipe for Good Health

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A Killer of a Cure

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Print of Giovanni Francesco Camocio's "Humani Victus Instrumenta"

Making Senses

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1950s ad for Mum cream deodorant

The Smell of Shame

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Grindhouse Wetware’s Northstar device in 2015.

Hacking Humans

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LZR Racer

Winning Skin

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Scent of Mystery ad

The Third Sense

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Nitrous oxide party

High Times

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Diagram of sports bra

Second Skin

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Illustration of childbirth

(Natural) Childbirth

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Swedish worker inspects nylon stocking, 1954

Synthetic Threads

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Walter Potter's Monkey Riding a Goat

Death and Taxidermy

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cosmetic ad showing early 20th century woman

The Secrets of Life

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Cloud chamber from the A. C. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, ca. 1950.

Hazardous Fun

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Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann

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Artwork from the graphic novel Trinity

Graphic History

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

Roy J. Plunkett

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Portrait of Leo Hendrik Baekeland, early 20th century. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood Studios, New York, NY. Williams Haynes Portrait Collection, the Institute Collections.

Leo Hendrik Baekeland

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Wallace H. Carothers, shown here with neoprene.

Wallace Hume Carothers

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Gordon Moore at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in 2005.

Gordon E. Moore

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Portrait of Jane Marcet.

Jane Marcet

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Rachel Carson.

Rachel Carson

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Making Sense of Making Meth

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The Gowanus Canal

The Gowanus Canal

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