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Our interactions with our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the chimpanzees, have rarely been entirely honorable. We dress them up...

When it comes to bones, immortality is far from a sure thing. We generally think that the road from bone to fossil is a straight-forward...

In September of 1960, the American pharmaceutical company Richardson-Merrell submitted their application to the FDA for the approval of...

On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the deserts of Alamogordo, New Mexico. At the time, it...

Color is among the most familiar of our sensations, and at the same time also one of the most foreign. Whereas any child can tell you...

“There was a tunnel, and at the end a beautiful light, and I heard the voices of my family calling to me.” For centuries this, the...

Humans have been building structures out of ceramic brick for five thousand years, and for four thousand nine hundred of those years the...

Separate But Equal. Of all America's variously Orwellian brandings, few have wrought as much human suffering as those three words. It is...

There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in...

To many, Virginia Satir was an instinctive therapeutic genius, whose invention of family therapy has instructed untold millions of...

Do Not Interact With Men Easily Do Not Dance Go to Church Every Sunday Spend Money From Home Wisely Do Not Become as Aggressive as an...

It is 1942, and Allied bombs are raking the city of Turin, wreaking a thudding vengeance for Il Duce’s cynical alliance with Nazi Germany....

In 1955, if you were a man who suffered from premature ejaculation, or a woman who had never known an orgasm, your choices were few and...

For the last thirty-two years of her life, Naomi Weisstein (1939-2015), the mercurial spirit who was simultaneously a cognitive...

For women in science, posterity has three fates in store. Some, like Marie Curie or Rosalyn Yalow, are recognised in their time and...

There are cases where the towering homogeneity of Victorian culture is exaggerated. The era of Prince Albert and Lord Palmerston was,...

Midwife. Few words in the history of western medicine can evoke sudden and unequivocal academic tribal sentiment as that single term. To...

In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim 10 million lives over the...

The long life of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), the world’s first woman to earn a medical degree, can be divided into two roughly equal...

A young mother of the early twentieth century who could not or did not want to breast feed was a creature entirely at the hands of...