Science and Discovery
- Science & History
History of Medicine
From surgical papyri and the balance of four humors to a Babylonian handbook of omens, an alphabet of the human body, and the day two scientists learned to edit genes
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History of Mathematics
A number system built for taxes, a theorem older than the man it's named for, a proof too long for a margin, and an infinity too big to count
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History of Physics
A search for the rules the universe obeys, from falling stones and floating crowns to a boson found underground and ripples in spacetime
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History of Astronomy
Priests reading omens in the stars, monks charting eclipses from a minaret, and a telescope in orbit reading the light of the first galaxies
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History of Western Philosophy
From asking what water has to do with everything to arguing about what justice would look like behind a veil of ignorance
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The Scientific Revolution
How observation and mathematics replaced ancient authority between 1543 and 1727
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Space Exploration
From a cabbage field in Massachusetts to a telescope a million miles from Earth
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Pandemics Through History
How plague, pox, and pandemic flu remade societies, and how the science of germs and vaccines fought back
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Artificial Intelligence
From a wartime theory of neurons to machines that write, paint, and fold proteins
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