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Science News Julie Rehmeyer |
Florence Nightingale: The Passionate Statistician She pioneered the use of applied statistics to develop policy and developed novel ways of displaying them. |
Parameters Autumn 2008 |
A Speech Not Given Excerpts from the speech President John F. Kennedy was to deliver in Dallas, Texas, on 22 November 1963, the day he was assassinated. |
Scientific American November 2008 Daniel C. Schlenoff |
100 Years Ago: Engineering a City--New York City's Bridges Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American. |
Popular Mechanics November 11, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
The 6 Most Lethal Aircraft in History Aviation experts and warplane veterans take a look at the history of single-engine planes, fighters, bombers and attack helicopters and pick six of the most lethal fliers in the past 100 years. |
ifeminists November 8, 2008 Ken Gregg |
Who am I? Guess the historical figure that wrote several science books for children and helped peak Michael Faraday's interest in electricity. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 David Mindell |
Slideshow: Victorian Hacking The author, a professor of the history of engineering at MIT, traveled to England to lead a tour of Victorian technology -- a journey into the fantastical world of Watt, Babbage, Brunel, and other 19th-century hackers |
Scientific American November 2008 Daniel C. Schlenoff |
150 Years Ago: Using Light as a Cure Stories from past issues of Scientific American: Politics in science, economics of oil well depths, Cullinan diamond, using light as a curative agent, and the design of cigar boats. |
Popular Mechanics September 26, 2008 Lindsay Brooke |
Top 10 Ford Model T Tech Innovations That Matter 100 Years Later When Henry Ford's invention entered production 100 years ago this weekend, it wasn't the world's first inexpensive car -- others had beaten him to that slot. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Kieron Murphy |
Ernst Stuhlinger: A Legend of the Space Age His life story could have been written by a sci-fi novelist |
Reason Aug/Sep 2008 W. James Antle |
Conservatives Against Empire The forgotten tradition of the antiwar right is remembered in Bill Kauffman's latest book. |
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