Women Are Reinventing the Long-Despised Speculum

The gynecological apparatus, designed by men, has a sordid history. An Object Lesson.

• Daniela Blei
• Mar 8, 2018

How the Index Card Cataloged the World

Carl Linnaeus, the father of biological taxonomy, also had a hand in inventing this tool for categorizing anything. An Object Lesson.

• Daniela Blei
• Dec 1, 2017