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Anson Rabinbach, European historian and ‘luminous spirit,’ dies at 79
Rabinbach joined Princeton’s faculty in 1996 and transferred to emeritus status in 2019. He served as director of the ...
Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote
(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...
Evolving intelligent life took billions of years − but it may not have been as unlikely as many scientists predicted
Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...
pharmaphorum3d
A history of the pharmaceutical industry
The 21st century pharmaceutical ... as well as the science-boosting competition of the cold war. As the barriers to entry in drug production were raised, a great deal of consolidation occurred ...
Why Trump wants to buy Greenland — and how much it could cost
David Barker, a real estate developer and former economist at the New York Fed, told The New York Times that Greenland could ...
Smithsonian Magazine4d
Richard Grant
illuminate the little-known role these artists played in chronicling 19th-century life The innovations of a forgotten genius who laid the groundwork for the nation's signature music Venture into ...
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3 Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies That Prove He’s the Best Action Star
Arnold Schwarzenegger did all of that in half a century. Schwarzenegger has lived ... he was back in the title role of one of the greatest science fiction films of all time, Terminator 2: Judgment ...
American Bar Association4d
19th Amendment Centennial of Women's Right to Vote
Suffragists published at least a half dozen cookbooks leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. The cookbooks were spiced up with irresistible arguments in favor of the Great Cause ...
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Two new studies suggest Paris climate goal is dead. One scientist is going even further
While many scientists have said these levels of warming can be avoided with immediate, rapid emission cuts, the chances of this seem increasingly slim as international climate action falters.