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Elephants Have Wings cartoon

The Price of Gold in a ‘Golden Age’

Durkee margarine ad 1955

Stomping the Margarine

black and white photo of man in an enclosure

Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell?

Distillations Article

Sketch illustration of barren and forbidding field of large stone blocks

Speaking to the Future

Distillations Article

Two floating men working in space station

Stuck Inside

Distillations Article

Illustration of fairies around water

River Gods, Lake Monsters, and the Abiding Power of Myth

Distillations Article

Impressionist painting of a lily pond

Could Claude Monet See Like a Bee?

Distillations Article

Picture of Colin Dickey

Bonus Episode: Interview with Colin Dickey

Distillations Podcast

Portrait of the Fox sisters, spiritualists in the mid 19th-century.

Ghost Hunting in the 19th Century

Distillations Podcast

Vampire preys on a sick woman

Vampire Panic

Distillations Podcast

Doctors perform ancient neurosurgery

When a Hole in the Head Is a Good Thing

Distillations Podcast

Physician inoculates boy with smallpox vaccine aboard ship

Orphan Vaccines

Distillations Podcast

Illustration of a large laser

The Undying Appeal of Nikola Tesla’s “Death Ray”

Distillations Article

Engraving showing tableau of injected vessel and infant skeletons by Frederick Ruysch,

Collecting Monstrosity

Distillations Podcast

Black and white close up of vial under microscope

The Rise and Fall of Polywater

Distillations Article

Cartoon of grave robbers

The Anatomy Riot of 1788

Distillations Article

18th century book gnawed by bookworms

What’s That Smell You’re Reading?

Distillations Article

Making a homunculus from an 1899 edition of Goethe's Faust

Man Made: A History of Synthetic Life

Distillations Article

The Petroleum World

Distillations Article