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Picture the Titanic, a floating palace that sank and killed two-thirds of those aboard. Whole families perished, children were left orphaned, wives watched their husbands drown. While on close inspection of the passenger manifest, it might be possible to work out the relationships among the... read more

The sinking of the Titanic is a tragedy that still fascinates the world. Questions over why some people survived and others didn’t are haunted by the context of class, gender, and age. I use the passenger manifest of the Titanic to help my science and technology students understand what... read more