History
Could old skulls help us understand why we have crooked teeth?
Something changed over the course of human evolution that left a lot of us with weak chins and buck-teeth. ...
9 years ago
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A natural history museum questions what ‘natural’ means
In a business district east of Pittsburgh’s downtown, between a pizza shop and a Vietnamese restaurant, is an easy-to-miss storefront m ...
9 years ago
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It’s ‘game on’ for the man in charge of 145 million specimens
It seems that Kirk Johnson was training from a very early age to one day head the country’s largest and most comprehensive natural ...
9 years ago
Listen 9:47Diorama dilemma: The art and science of museum displays
A lot more than meets the eye goes into dioramas at natural history museums.
9 years ago
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The future — and predicting it — ‘ain’t what it used to be’
We want to know what to expect so we can prepare for it. It's more important than ever to get reliable information about what to expect, because the world is changing fast.
9 years ago
40 years after Legionnaires outbreak, the case for a ‘Safe Breathing Water Act’
Forty years ago this month, more than ...
9 years ago
A ‘Philadelphia Cornucopia’ diminished but still impossible to ignore
In honor of the Democratic National Convention, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts this summer is hosting too many Washingtons to coun ...
9 years ago
Countering the deception of Trump’s ‘Make America great again’
What kind of message could counter the essential Trump narrative, the mantra "Make America Great Again!" Those four words are a code, of course, like all slogans.
9 years ago