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A Perfect Glutton, Never Ceasing
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Philly Materials Day Online: Experiments for Home
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Between Us and Catastrophe
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Stress Baking and the Comfort of Connection
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Roe v. Wade v. Rubella
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Harvey Wiley’s Fierce Pursuit of Food Safety
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Distilled #7: Bicycle Horn or Breast Pump?
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The Mouse That Changed Science
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Baking Up a Storm
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Distilled #5: Porcelain Painting
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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction
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Distilled #4: Virtual Reality in the 19th Century
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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction
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Distilled #3: Water Fit for a King
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Distilled #2: An Early (Gold-Plated!) Not-Quite-IUD
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Fighting Smog in Los Angeles
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Distilled #1: Caffeine Pills in Disguise
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Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?
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Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?
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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures
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Cat Craze
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Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès’s Recipe for Margarine
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The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh
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Sci-Fi Radio Drama
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Here Comes the Spray Man!
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Rethinking Ink
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High-Tech and Amish
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Rethinking Ink
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A Recipe for Good Health
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A Killer of a Cure
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Fizzy Water
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Things Fall Apart
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The Joy of Cooking
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Flexible Meaning
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Imagining a Postcarbon Future
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Horiba-Mexa 200 CO Analyzer
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Where Have All the Trailers Gone?
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Ellen H. Swallow Richards
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Rebel without a Chemistry Set
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The Magic of It All
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It’s Alive!
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Ruining Rags
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Making a Splash: Trouble in the Water
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From Burned to Learned
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A Good Death
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The Philosophers’ Stove
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Sound Waves
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The Real Thing: How Coke Became Kosher
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Ready or Not
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A Better Pill
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Playing It Safe?
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Celluloid: The Eternal Substitute
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Bridging the Gaps
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Counting Calories
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Delicate Matters
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(Electro) Plating to Success
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Plastic’s Second Act
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