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Chemistry World March 15, 2013 Philip Ball |
Clairvoyant chemistry A strong contender for the strangest book ever written about chemistry is Occult chemistry by Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater published in 1909. |
Information Today March 7, 2013 |
Readex to Launch Digital Edition of American Pamphlets The digital collection American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922: From the New-York Historical Society will be introduced in late spring 2013 by Readex, a division of NewsBank. |
National Defense March 2013 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Readers comment on new soldier weapons, countering pirates at sea, and clarify the history of World War II. |
Chemistry World February 4, 2013 |
Richard III body found under Leicester car park The mortal remains of England's battle king Richard III have been found, bringing to a close a mystery that has puzzled scholars for centuries. Analytical tests on a skeleton found under a Leicester car park have confirmed the last resting place of the final king in the Plantagenet line. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 |
Phreaking Out Ma Bell We learn how a buccaneering young engineer built the little blue box that broke into the biggest network in the world in Phil Lapsley's Exploding the Phone: the Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell. |
HBS Working Knowledge January 16, 2013 Katie Johnston |
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management Harvard-Newcomen Fellow Caitlin C. Rosenthal studies the meticulous records kept by southern plantation owners for measuring the productivity of their slaves, some of which were forerunners of modern management techniques. |
Chemistry World January 9, 2013 Philip Ball |
Righting history Every chemistry student can benefit from some understanding of their subject's evolution, and they deserve more than comforting myths. |
Chemistry World January 7, 2013 Laura Howes |
Digging up ancient drug formulations Some of the medicines we take today, such as aspirin, have a long history. But analysis of drugs found in an ancient shipwreck that sank in the second century BC threw up some compounds that are still being used by the medical profession today. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 8, 2012 Julia Hanna |
The Immigrants Who Built America's Financial System In The Founders and Finance, Harvard Business School business historian Thomas McCraw lays out in fascinating detail how immigrants Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin became essential to the nation's survival. |
Chemistry World September 5, 2012 Matthew Turnbull |
The science and history of alcohol Alcohol and Its Role in the Evolution of Human Society by Ian Hornsey, covers an immense amount of ground for readers unfamiliar with the fundamentals of brewing technology, metabolic pathways and plant biology. |
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