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They Thought What?
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Unpacking the history (and present) of science
A historian who pays full attention to their sources can’t help but be transformed into a monster…
as gluttonous as a pig, as angry as a lion, as quarrelsome as a dog
Through his participation in the medical community, the theater community, and his connections to literary artists, Benjamin openly questioned how medical professionals and society at large defined and categorized gender.
The X-Files plays on our fascination with the camera — and our fear of it.
The Hills’ aliens wore clothing and spoke English—albeit with an unspecified “foreign accent.”
It was no longer appropriate for one computer scientist in Marina del Rey to control the Internet’s address book.