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People Who Made Collaboration Their Greatest Strength
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People Who Changed the History of Maps
People Who Changed the History of Maps
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Maps record what someone wanted to know about the world and what they had the means to measure. Follow the people who drew them to see how coastlines, ocean depths, household wages, and disease...
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Historical Translators Who Carried Ideas Across Languages
Historical Translators Who Carried Ideas Across Languages
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A translation can give a text a new set of readers and put it to work in a debate its author never heard. These translators carried astronomy, scripture, fables, and novels across languages. Start...
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Games About Archaeology That Make Discovery Feel Earned
Games About Archaeology That Make Discovery Feel Earned
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Historical Novels About Women Whose Work Made a Difference
Historical Novels About Women Whose Work Made a Difference
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A bridge needs finishing, a dictionary needs new words, and a vaccine needs a different line of inquiry. In these historical novels, the work itself gets a share of the page. Some follow women you...
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Biographers Who Changed How We See Their Subjects
Biographers Who Changed How We See Their Subjects
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A great biography does more than retell a life; it changes the picture everyone else had. These biographers each found new evidence, a buried archive, overlooked letters, interviews with people...
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Historical Figures Known for Their Diaries
Historical Figures Known for Their Diaries
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A diary lets you follow what a person thought worth writing down before they knew what would happen next. These writers left records of work, reading, war, and family life. Start with Martha...
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People Who Changed How Science Records and Shares Knowledge
People Who Changed How Science Records and Shares Knowledge
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Discoveries only matter once other people can find, check and build on them. This list follows the people behind the systems that make that possible: the first scientific journal, a naming scheme...
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People Who Changed How We Measure the World
People Who Changed How We Measure the World
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A measurement becomes useful when other people can compare it, repeat it or understand its uncertainty. These are my choices across observation, practical standards and statistics: people who...
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Scientists Who Changed Their Minds in Public
Scientists Who Changed Their Minds in Public
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Science is meant to change its mind when the evidence does, but it is rarer to see one person say so openly. This list collects scientists on record revising a view they had argued for, in print...
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People Who Helped Decipher Ancient Writing Systems
People Who Helped Decipher Ancient Writing Systems
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A royal name, a repeated ending, and a set of dates can each give a reader a way into an unfamiliar script. These are some of the people who made those clues count. Start with Egyptian hieroglyphs...
History
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Leaders Whose Reputations Changed After Archives Opened
Leaders Whose Reputations Changed After Archives Opened
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Public Artists Who Changed How People Use Shared Space
Public Artists Who Changed How People Use Shared Space
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The best public art changes what people do in a place: where they sit, gather, play, protest or pause. This list follows artists whose documented projects altered how a street, park, shore or...
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People Who Made Difficult Subjects Easier to Understand
People Who Made Difficult Subjects Easier to Understand
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A clear explanation gives you something you can use: a question to ask, a picture to think with or a connection to follow. These are my choices for sustained public communication across science...
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Interviewers Who Built Remarkable Oral Archives
Interviewers Who Built Remarkable Oral Archives
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A single great interview makes headlines; thousands of them, recorded with care and kept, become a resource that historians, musicians and families draw on for generations. This list follows...
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