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Ingenious: Simon DeDeo
Cosmic microwaves and crime.
The Vulgar Mechanic and His Magical Oven
A Renaissance alchemist pioneers feedback control.
The Glassmaker Who Sparked Astrophysics
His curious discovery, 200 years ago, foresaw our expanding universe.
The Seeds That Sowed a Revolution
Galapagos Finches are famous, yet Darwin learned more about evolution from the plants.
What I’ve Learned About the Past 13,000 Years
A look back at a career spent looking back.
A Cabinet of Curiosities
Wander through our interactive wunderkammer.
Monsters, Marvels, and the Birth of Science
How the unlikely and unexplainable, strange and terrifying, spawned the age of science.
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