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Monterey Bay in the 1930s stood at the nadir of its ecological fortunes, having sustained every imaginable indignity that mankind’s...

In the late 18th century, when a crop failed, farmers and agricultural enthusiasts traded theories about what was to be done in the pages...

The story of the women’s medical movement in India is, when told at all, generally centered upon its British founding figures - Ida...

There is something instantly mesmerizing about looking into the face of a raptor, a wordless communication between two species which are...

We are never alone. From our first connections with other human beings, we start filling ourselves with them, melding not only their...

In 1941, the first patent was filed for a hot new product that stood to revolutionize the electronics field - it was a capacitor that...

Had Maria Montessori died in 1913 at age 43, at the height of her fame and insight, this would be a pretty straightforward article about...

1919 was a year of promise born of misery.  Between the ravages of influenza and the indiscriminate trench carnage of the First World...

We can be a heedless species. We daily expose ourselves to wear and tear both from the environment and our own actions that take their...

In the early 20th century, buying and consuming food of any sort in an urban center was a fraught proposition, particularly in the days...

In its externals the life of Emma Carr (1880-1972) bears many similarities to that of fellow physicist Margaret Maltby (1860-1944). Both...

Sex after menopause. Drug addiction. Abortion. In the early to mid-twentieth century, to be seen as casting an understanding eye on any...

An American woman hoping to make her way in science in the 19th century carried with her the knowledge that, as soon as she had a child...

The nineteenth century saw Great Britain expanding vociferously into new markets, extending its influence, for better or worse, into...

Though we think of her as the Lady With the Lamp, tirelessly patrolling the sick wards of the Crimean War offering solace and healing to...

There is a deep seam that lies astride the history of European archaeology - on one side you have the hero-explorers, men and women who...

A square, who works as a lawyer in the two-dimensional world of Flatland, sits down with his hexagonal grandson: Taking nine squares,...

The road leading to the creation and publication of The Origin of the Species was one of the most tortuous and personally costly in the...

Sometimes, simplicity dooms.  In World War I, chlorine gas hailed down upon the British soldiers trudging through their semi-lives in the...

When Clémence Royer died on February 7, 1902, she took with her into oblivion perhaps the last human brain that believed in and aimed for...