📷 Alusiv Branding, Design, Exhibits
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The Science History Institute is pleased to present Downstream, a new exhibition that will take visitors on a watery journey of history and science, exploring more than 200 years of water analysis and protection in the United States. The temporary exhibition, which will open September 14, 2021, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., will be one of the first major additions to the Institute’s museum since reopening to the public on July 1. Learn more about the history of water now by visiting sciencehistory.org/downstream.
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“Rare Earths: The Hidden Cost to Their Magic,” a two-part Distillations podcast, is featured in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) as part of its Stereo Chemistry series. The episodes look at the history and environmental impact of these 17 “magical” elements that are essential to modern life and found in such items as cell phones, X-ray machines, and wind turbines. Stereo Chemistry is the official podcast of C&EN, which is published by the American Chemical Society.
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Enhance your virtual or in-person classroom with The Case of Plastics, part of our Science Matters role-playing game series. Ideal for high school chemistry classes, students debate the positive and negative perspectives of plastics from all sides, from regulators and activists to manufacturers and recyclers. The series, which includes The Case of Rare Earth Elements, can also be implemented in social studies classes, in college settings, and in crossdisciplinary projects or clubs.
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Monday, August 16, 2021–Thursday, August 19, 2021
10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. EDT
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Presented by the Center for Oral History, this online workshop will introduce attendees to all aspects of the interview process, including general oral history theory and methodology, in-person and remote interviewing techniques, legal and ethical issues, transcription practices, archiving, recording equipment and its use, data management, and other relevant topics.
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Thursday, September 9, 2021
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. EDT
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Join us for our first JPS virtual talk of the season, where you’ll learn about Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), indoor farming operations at scale, from genetics to post harvest, to the complexity and intensity of the technology used to produce hundreds of different delicious and nutritious crops in controlled environments.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2021
10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. EDT
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Thursday, September 30, 2021
6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. EDT
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Join us for the fall Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture, where medical scientist and Nobel laureate Peter Agre will talk about the special role of water in biology and his transition into malaria research in the laboratory and in the field in sub-Saharan Africa where malaria remains a major killer of children.
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Detail of an advertisement for Fosta-Grantly Sunglasses made of “miracle nylon,” 1958. 📷 Foster Grant Co., Inc.
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Once upon a time a small city in Massachusetts played an outsized role in plastics. From mundane celluloid dice to Disney’s all-plastic house, the plastics industry focused on the future. What happened when the future finally arrived?
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Pop artists set themselves apart by addressing throwaway culture. But how could they make the disposable last?
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Our approach to fighting wildfires is a fantasy—and it’s making them even more catastrophic.
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Plexiglas, celluloid, Bakelite, nylon, Styron, Ivory Pyralin, silicone, Lucite...plastics have many names and many uses. Explore our digital collections to learn more about this revolutionary and controversial material:
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Undated photo of Leo Baekeland in his lab. 📷 The L.H. Baekeland Project, LLC
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In 1907 Belgian-born chemist and entrepreneur Leo Baekeland (1863–1944) invented Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic. Made from phenol and formaldehyde, Bakelite transformed modern life and earned its inventor the moniker “the father of the plastics industry.” Baekeland also invented Velox photographic paper, which the Eastman Kodak Company bought for $750,000 in 1898.
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Now more than ever it’s important to tell the stories of science. Help us continue this work by supporting the Science History Institute.
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