Jennifer Nalewicki is a Salt Lake City-based journalist whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Smithsonian ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1896 ... the basics of the greenhouse effect before quantum mechanics was even discovered? It started with Joseph Fourier ...

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"Like Nazi Germany of 1933," Bollyn wrote, "American newsstands today carry a mainstream magazine ... Popular Mechanics had gone from being a 100-year-old journal about science, engineering ...

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