PLEASE NOTE:
- Our newsletter will now be published biweekly; look for the next issue on Monday, January 24, 2022.
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📷 Courtesy of Aloke Lohia
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The Science History Institute is proud to announce that Aloke Lohia, founder and group CEO at Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, is the 2022 Petrochemical Heritage Award honoree. The award will be presented on March 27, 2022, in San Antonio, Texas, at the International Petrochemical Conference, held by American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM). This prestigious award is presented annually by the Institute, the Founders Club, and AFPM to recognize an individual’s outstanding contributions to the petrochemical community.
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Monday, January 10, 2022
6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. EST
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Join us TONIGHT for this month’s Science on Tap virtual talk featuring Marta Guron, managing director of the NSF’s Center for Sustainable Separation of Metals, who will take a look at the longer term impacts and potential solutions around sustainably sourced critical metals.
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Saturday, January 22, 2022
Saturday, February 12, 2022
2:00 p.m. EST
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Our Science and Activism “drop-in” tours explore the vital impacts made by engaged communities on scientific discovery, environmental justice, and public health. Guided Tours take place twice a month on Saturdays through February 2022. Admission is free and no reservations are necessary.
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Beckman PF-31 Ultrasonic Spirometer, undated photograph of the instrument used to measure lung capacity and health. 📷 Science History Institute
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Thursday, January 27, 2022
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. EST
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January’s JPS virtual talk features Institute research curator Roger Turner, who will explore how seemingly neutral medical instruments like spirometers and pulse oximeters can amplify racial disparities and how we might make these instruments—and the social systems that use them—better serve all the people they measure. This event is coproduced by the American Chemical Society as part of its ACS Webinars series and Chemical & Engineering News.
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Friday, February 4, 2022
Friday, March 4, 2022
2:00 p.m. EST
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Take a deep dive into our museum with our Gallery Guides, who will lead visitors through an interactive water journey using objects from our handling collection. Collections Deep Dives take place on First Fridays through May 2022. Admission is free and no reservations are necessary.
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Saturday, February 19, 2022
11:00 a.m. EST
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Dive into a day of family-friendly, water-related activities! Family Swim takes place once a month on Saturdays through February 2022. Admission is free and no reservations are necessary. Please note: the January 15 Family Swim has been canceled.
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Colorized transmission electron micrograph of bacteriophages attacking a bacterium. 📷 Graham Beards/Wikimedia Commons/Clay Cansler
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Could a Soviet-era therapy offer a new defense against antibiotic-resistant superbugs?
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John Harvey Kellogg’s Battle Creek Sanitarium was at the intersection of new ideas of religion, health, and nutrition.
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We explore how faith, a desire for easy answers, and a lack of trust in medical science shape two modern trends.
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Thin became “in” during the 1920s, and the calorie became a vital tool in the battle to lose weight. Yet before becoming a fashion necessity, the calorie had a decidedly less glamorous role in agriculture, laboratories, and factories.
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Health fads come and health fads go, though few were as downright odd as the 1920s’ and 1930s’ craze for yeast cakes.
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Le Pharmacien [The Pharmacist], postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustration of a pharmacist, 1909
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The Chemistry of Health, advertisement for Dow Chemical Company products that help promote and preserve good health, 1941
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My Water-Cure, book published by Bavarian priest Sebastian Kneipp, best known for his hydrotherapy “cure,” 1892
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Detail of a portrait of German chemist Felix Hoffmann. 📷 Bayer Corporation
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Within a two-week period in August 1897, German chemist Felix Hoffmann (1868–1946) famously synthesized two drugs while working at Bayer: aspirin, one of the most widely beneficial drugs ever, and heroin, one of the most harmful of illegal substances. These two drugs represent the efforts of late-19th-century chemists to create new substances that could be used as medicines, not just to isolate active ingredients from natural products or to imitate them.
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