Nineteenth-century opponents of vivisection warned that the practice could make researchers and physicians callous toward all living creatures. bit.ly/4bci6aw

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Fredric Wertham, MD, convinced 1950s America that comic books led to depravity. He also used these extremist views to raise money for an anti-racist mental health clinic in Harlem. bit.ly/3JVSGSC

Both common and culturally significant, the Singapore English word “one” can be used in various ways. bit.ly/4a7IUY8

A special group of molecules, known as peptides, can form more easily under the conditions of space than those found on Earth. bit.ly/44CxSco #Earth #astronomy

An archival collection shared by Middlebury College invites the curious to make connections across the history of American literature. bit.ly/44yjvWk

#OTD in 1796, Edward Jenner tested his vaccination hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, his gardener’s son, against smallpox. In 1803, children carried the vaccine around the world. bit.ly/2AGAD2E #TodayInHistory

In this week’s Suggested Readings: Iceland’s medieval whale hunters, drama in the world of plants, and miners in space. bit.ly/3UDbOd2

Could #architecture , with the right design, allow humans to live longer? And not just live longer but to overcome mortality and eradicate death? bit.ly/3wzdzzI

Being a witnessing professional can be heart-breaking and dangerous. bit.ly/4b8xRPv

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In 1523, writer Juan Luis Vives warned that European women used veils for reasons quite opposed to traditional ideas of female modesty. bit.ly/3QEsEHc

One of the great joys of a special collection for the researcher is the serendipity: you don’t know what you will come across. Archival Adventures in the Abernethy Collection of American Literature from Middlebury College via JSTOR. bit.ly/44yjvWk

Given a shortage in the early American republic of skilled penmanship masters, copybooks demonstrating correct style proliferated, both for use in schools and for private study. bit.ly/3UReIfx #penmanship #USHistory

#OTD in 1607, colonists disembarked onto the banks of the Powhatan River to establish the first permanent *English* settlement in North America. bit.ly/3kSM6PX

Zheng He’s sixty-two years were filled with as many crests and chasms as the oceans upon which he sailed. bit.ly/4ahrUie #China #history

In 1824, scientific vivisection became the subject of philosophical and social scrutiny. bit.ly/4bci6aw

Katherine Mansfield was all alone, cut off from family and friends, and had bleak prospects. Enter from stage left: a Russian playwright. bit.ly/4aeEPl5

Many of the building blocks of life such as amino acids, lipids and sugars can form in the space environment. Many have been detected in meteorites. bit.ly/44CxSco #Earth #astronomy
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