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December 15, 2017 (December 11, 2017)

200 Years of Illinois: Making way for Fermilab

american history Chicago Illinois / regional

It came from the future: Tevatron. The villain in the new Michael Bay feature? Actually, the world’s largest particle accelerator once it opened in 1983. But to get there, the giant […]

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March 30, 2017 (March 29, 2017)

Backlist Bop: Pioneering women scientists

american history women women's history

The hit film Hidden Figures re-acquainted the zeitgeist with the idea that women in general, and African American women in particular, have long participated in scientific endeavor. Science on the Home Front tells women’s […]

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November 30, 2016 (November 15, 2016)

Release Party: The Science of Sympathy, by Rob Boddice

European history natural history

The new UIP book The Science of Sympathy takes readers back to the Victorian Era and into the arguments over sympathy’s place in Darwinist reconsiderations of science and humanity. Charles […]

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