Slaying the speckled monster - The history of smallpox and the origins of vaccines
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Lasers reveal 60,000 ancient Maya structures in Guatemala
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Silvio Gesell, who wanted to create money that expired, is making a comeback
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The human cost of amber - Fossils preserved in sap offer an astonishingly clear view of the distant past, but they come at a high price
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The math of Emil Konopinski
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Albert Einstein's relativity document gifted to Nobel museum
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Who really invented the periodic table?
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The hidden heroines of chaos
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Robert R. Wilson's congressional testimony in favor of building a particle collider at Fermilab, April 1969
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Mary Anning inspired 'she sells sea shells' — but she was actually a legendary fossil hunter
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The Croc That Ran on Hooves
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Biosphere 2 - The lost history of one of the world’s strangest science experiments
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The cataclysmic break that (maybe) occurred in 1950
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The Hitler Beetle and other oddities of scientific naming
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When giant scorpions swarmed the seas
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Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’
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Was Roman concrete better?
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Newly discovered letter by Galileo shows that he lightly edited his original words to appease the Catholic Church
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Mount Vesuvius murdered its victims in more brutal ways than we thought
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Shockwaves from WWII bombing raids reached the edge of space
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Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity first proven correct at what is now Australian lawn bowls club
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Forging Islamic science
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'A Nazi in all but name': Author argues Asperger's syndrome should be renamed
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The spectre of smallpox lingers
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Our pungent history: Sweat, perfume, and the scent of death
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Michael Faraday - The Chemical History of a Candle [1848] (Probably the best scientific talk ever)
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How learning science is catching up to Mr. Rogers
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Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital
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What a Russian smile means - How culture and history make American and Russian smiles different
8 votes