History
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⚗️ Alchemy’s Displacement and Chemistry’s Ascension
The French Revolution as both crucible and crucifix The French Revolution didn’t just decapitate monarchs — it decapitated paradigms. Chemistry, once entangled with alchemy’s mystical transmutations, emerged as a quantitative,… Read more.
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Smelling Salts
Smelling salts might be more than just Victorian fainting remedies or locker room stimulants – They could be a fascinating biochemical bridge to several of our terrain-related hypotheses. Read more.
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The WHO Task Force on Vaccines for Fertility Regulation
The WHO Task Force on Vaccines for Fertility Regulation a name that sounds like the title of a dystopian novel or the punchline to a conspiracy theorist’s fever dream. But… Read more.
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A short History of Social Engineering
The grand parade of social engineering – that pernicious attempt by self-appointed saviors to mold society according to their whims! Let us embark on a journey through this cesspool of… Read more.
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The Company Town (and another call for a fifty-dollar minimum wage)
The company town! That grand experiment in corporate feudalism, now reincarnated in the unholy trinity of penal labor, affordable housing, and the modern workplace. Let us embark on a journey… Read more.
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Snake Venom: A Timeless Fascination
The history of humans studying snake venom is as fascinating as the venom itself, stretching back thousands of years. Let’s take a journey through time to explore how venom has… Read more.
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Flint Knappers: The Tech Giants of the Stone Age
Picture, if you will, a time when smartphones were but a twinkle in the eye of evolution, and the height of technology was a pointy stick. Enter the flint knapper,… Read more.
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Chuckmuck: The Fanny Pack of the Silk Road
Picture this: It’s the 17th century, and you’re a traveler on the ancient trade routes stretching from the snow-capped Himalayas to the bustling ports of Japan. Hanging from your belt… Read more.
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Birth of the National Live Stock Association and a BBQ For the Ages
It’s the wild and woolly 1890s, and the West is wilder than a bronco with a burr under its saddle. Cattle rustlers are running amok, fences are getting cut and… Read more.
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This Mardi Gras of the West Fizzled Out Like a Wet Firecracker in 1902Â
THE FESTIVAL OF MOUNTAIN AND PLAIN It’s 1895, and Colorado has just crawled out of an economic nosedive that would make even a seasoned rodeo bull rider queasy. What’s a… Read more.
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