EnvironmentMay 18, 2011
The Squeaky Wheel Won't Get the Oil: An Early Call for Alternative Energy
Stories by Mary Karmelek
In 1845 Scientific American magazine made its debut on newsstands and has continued to be published ever since. Now, Nature Publishing Group and Scientific American are working to digitize all past issues of the magazine. Mary Karmelek is in charge of checking over each issue, and in the process she uncovers fascinating, captivating and humorous material buried in the yellowed pages of our past. In this blog she shares the highlights of her discoveries. Additional archival material appears every month in our 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago column.
The SciencesMay 13, 2011
Curious Photos from the Archive: A Hungry Little Bird Gets Stuck in a Breakfast Roll
The SciencesMay 10, 2011
Stop and Smell the Attar: Rose Oil Extraction in Bulgaria and France
The SciencesMay 6, 2011
Fire Safety: Sending a Lifeline from 1885
The SciencesMay 3, 2011
Bringing Back the "Apparently Dead"
The SciencesApril 29, 2011
The southwest bike tire massacre
The SciencesApril 26, 2011
Protect yourself from the confidence man's moonshine
The SciencesApril 22, 2011
Spring break sure looked different back then
The SciencesApril 19, 2011
Conveying a solution to mass transit
The SciencesApril 15, 2011
You (posthumously) light up my life
The SciencesApril 12, 2011
Slow and steady (almost) wins the race
The SciencesApril 8, 2011
Rock stars from coastal California's past
The SciencesApril 5, 2011
For those wishing to travel light by land and by sea
The SciencesApril 1, 2011
Take me out to the ball game, take me out to the Electrascore
March 29, 2011
My Big, Tall Greek Giant
The SciencesMarch 25, 2011
Cracking down on smut in the late 1850's
The SciencesMarch 22, 2011
The ultimate addition to your vintage vinyl collection
The SciencesMarch 18, 2011
Happy 100th, Roosevelt Dam!
The SciencesMarch 15, 2011
Frog briefly gets a leg up on entertainment industry
The SciencesMarch 11, 2011
Let the sun shine in...all day long
The SciencesMarch 8, 2011
For the sailor who prefers to be left high and dry
The SciencesMarch 4, 2011
Heavy traffic calls for "super-streets"
March 1, 2011
The Army in the air
The SciencesFebruary 25, 2011
Anecdotes from the Archive: A ship-shooting formula