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B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science
Science and scientists are funnily or strangely charming, besides being strictly adverbial. The Annals of Science—whose beta-test name was The Fanciful Annals of Science, to evoke a 6/8 metric feel—is all you could ask for, if you’re asking for the intersection of science, history, and dry charm.
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July 30, 2007B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science: Vol. XIII: The Ecology of Squish and Crunch
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February 16, 2007B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science: Vol. XII: Galileo Was Right About the Stars
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June 14, 2006B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science: Vol. XI: I Got Your Theory of Everything Right Here, Engineer Fred
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February 14, 2006B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science: Vol. X: On Chickens, Peas, Rib Eyes, and Dolls
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October 11, 2005B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science: Vol. IX: Little Charlie Darwin, God Bless Him
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June 2, 2005B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science: Vol. VIII: Nothing Phallic Going On Here
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February 18, 2005B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science: Vol. VII: The Myth of Fingerprints; or, The Case of Duplicate Toe Jam
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December 17, 2004B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science: Vol. VI: Pascalian Tidbits of Biography
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September 28, 2004B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science: Vol. V: Einstein, Eddington, and the Greatest Desert-Island Album
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July 9, 2004B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science: Vol. IV: The Salad Days of Genetics
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March 16, 2004B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science: Vol III: Substance Abusers Are Scientists Too: Vignettes on Auto-Experimentation
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December 2, 2003B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science: Vol. II: The Milk Man Cometh: Pasteur v. Toussaint
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