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A Chemical Empire Thriving from an Ancient Ocean

By Patrick Shea

Dow Chemical Company began when the innovative mind of Herbert Dow met the rich quantities of magnesium, chlorine, calcium, and bromine stored deep below the soils of Midland, Michigan. Photographs of the early chemical plant in the late 19th century document the pioneering of Dow’s company and the beginning of chlorine bleach. Read more >>

Women's Business

During the 17th-century many women were skilled in making medicinal home remedies, but only a few women ran their own apothecaries and competed with male physicians for the right to make and prescribe medicines. Read more >>

Salt's Fat Chance

Meet sodium chloride, the latest nutritional villain. But are the alternatives scarier than the substance it’s replacing? A brief history about a “terrifying” food.
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Milestones

Pennsylvania's Black Gold
The 150th anniversary of Colonel Edwin Drake’s accidental discovery of oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Read more >>

First Person

Trade Secret
Nobel Prize winner Alan MacDiarmid reveals a creative way scientists fund their research.
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Icons of Science

A Colorful Life
Color by numbers—no problem, thanks to Albert H. Munsell, who pioneered methods for color comparison. Read more >>

Explore

The New Water Cooler
Where do chemists network? The Web, of course! Find out more.
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Crossword Puzzle Solution

Reviews

Books

Steven Shapin. The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
Leo B. Slater. War and Disease: Biomedical Research on Malaria in the 20th Century
Paul Lucier. Scientists and Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820-1890
Richard Holmes. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Tom D. Crouch. Lighter Than Air
Frank Ackerman. Poisoned for Pennies: The Economics of Toxics and Precaution
Jie Jack Li. Triumph of the Heart: The Story of Statins
Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger, eds. Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
James Trefil. Why Science?

Museums

A Future Woven in Rayon: Museo Territoriale Bassa Friulana. Reviewed by Jonathan Taylor

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