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The Fraudulent Health Startup that Got an Acclaimed Documentarian to Make Its Ads

by Jordan Ogihara May 22, 2019November 4, 2019

How can we reconcile Errol Morris’s stated mission of pursuing the truth with him helping to promote Theranos?

Posted inArt

With a Microscope and Sketchbook, a Pioneering Neuroscientist Magnified the Brain’s Mysteries

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 7, 2018March 7, 2018

NYU’s Grey Art Gallery is exhibiting 80 drawings by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the “father of modern neuroscience” who used art to reveal the anatomy of the brain.

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Explore the Color Code of a 19th-Century Artist Who Painted Nature

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 30, 2017July 22, 2022

Decode the color system of 19th-century nature artist Ferdinand Bauer, who documented the Australian coast, through an online interactive.

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A 19th-Century Guide to Seeing Ghosts Everywhere

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 30, 2017October 5, 2022

The 1864 Spectropia used optical illusions to manifest ghosts in Victorian homes, and was designed to attack the quackery of Spiritualism.

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The Rise of Paleoart, and the Artist’s Role in Our Visions of Dinosaurs

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 21, 2017May 18, 2021

Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, 1830-1980 argues for the art history importance of dinosaur illustrations, as they shape our understanding of this extinct world through the visual culture of the present.

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Recovering the Philosophy Chamber, Harvard’s Enlightenment-Era Teaching Cabinet

by Mary Louise Schumacher August 31, 2017August 31, 2017

The small chamber was at the heart of intellectual life in New England from 1766 to 1820, and then it all but disappeared.

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The Early-20th-Century Painter Who Captured Solar Eclipses

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 17, 2017August 19, 2017

In 1918, painter Howard Russell Butler precisely captured what the camera could not: the fiery colors of a solar eclipse.

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A History of Science Fiction’s Future Visions

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 31, 2017July 31, 2017

The Barbican Centre’s Into the Unknown explores science fiction as a cultural force, and how it channels our most optimistic and dystopian projections about the future.

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Help NASA Design a Radiation Shield That Folds Like Origami

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 26, 2017July 26, 2017

NASA is launching an idea challenge for a compact radiation shield that would protect spacecraft and the astronauts within.

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Scientists Encode Living DNA with Muybridge’s Galloping Horse Film

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 18, 2017July 18, 2017

Harvard scientists successfully recorded five frames of Eadweard Muybridge’s 1887 galloping horse on living bacteria, and retrieved the images in sequence.

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A Book Gathers Botanical Sketches from Across the Centuries

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 10, 2017May 10, 2017

Botanical Sketchbooks is a compendium of the diverse ways plants have been observed, studied, and immortalized in centuries of art.

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Rediscover a 19th-Century Compendium of North American Trees

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 9, 2017May 9, 2017

Botanists François-André Michaux and Thomas Nuttall documented every known tree in North America. A new book compiles over 270 plates from their original publication.

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