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Ghosts in the Machine

Lessons in Mannerism at the Palazzo Del Te

The Bug in the Computer Bug Story (2022)

Rosalind Franklin's Methods of Discovery

Who Took the Cocaine Out of Coca-Cola?

How David Bohm and Hugh Everett changed quantum theory

But Why a Penguin?

The Physics of Karate (2021)

Time in a Box

Saffron: The Most Expensive Spice

The Marvelous Automata of Antiquity (2018)

The Magic of a Crooked Sixpence

American librarians helped defeat the Nazis

Until the 14th century women dominated the field of beer brewing

The Nineteenth-Century Banjo

The hunt for life in Alpha Centauri

What happened to the dream of the Pan-American highway?

Walkers in the City–and Everywhere

“The Poet Is a Man Who Feigns”

The daguerreotype is famous – why not the calotype?

A Teen Celebrity in 1804

The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines

Who and What Was a Knocker-Upper?

Ancient culture torched its own homes every 60 years

Adding water to Martian soil samples might have been a bad idea

What’s causing the rise of hoarding disorder? (2019)

When the Government Tried to Flood the Grand Canyon

The cutting-edge cartoons of Winsor McCay

Delts Don’t Lie

The Mystery of Crime-Scene Dust

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