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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 ...
Why Trump wants to buy Greenland — and how much it could cost
United States President Trump continues to raise another old flight of fancy from his first tenure in the White House — the possibility of purchasing Greenland . Leaders from Denmark and Greenland (an ...
Charles Henry Turner: The little-known Black high school science teacher who revolutionized the study of insect behavior in the early 20th century
On a crisp autumn morning in 1908, an elegantly dressed African American man strode back and forth among the pin oaks, magnolias and silver maples of O’Fallon Park in St. Louis, Missouri. After ...