The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean
En podcast af Sam Kean, Bleav

106 Episoder
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What's the Longest Word in the English Language?
Udgivet: 27.4.2021 -
Why Don't We Have a Male Birth Control Pill Yet?
Udgivet: 20.4.2021 -
Bonus interview with WNYC's Science Diction
Udgivet: 16.4.2021 -
Marie Curie's (Nearly Disastrous) Trip to America
Udgivet: 13.4.2021 -
The Most Important Lost Fossils in History
Udgivet: 6.4.2021 -
The World’s First Global Vaccine Supply Chain Was Orphan Children
Udgivet: 30.3.2021 -
The Joys, and Pains, of Operating on Yourself
Udgivet: 30.11.2020 -
A School Shooting for Science
Udgivet: 13.11.2020 -
Star Wars, Death Rays, and Donald Trump
Udgivet: 15.10.2020 -
Vitamin G
Udgivet: 1.10.2020 -
The CIA’s Drug-Fueled Orgies and You
Udgivet: 15.9.2020 -
From Siberia with (Manipulative) Love
Udgivet: 1.9.2020 -
The Man Who Couldn’t Read Numbers
Udgivet: 17.8.2020 -
The Teflon Bomb
Udgivet: 6.8.2020 -
Chocolate Cake & Atomic Bombs
Udgivet: 1.8.2020 -
The Ice Island Murder
Udgivet: 14.7.2020 -
Our Slimy Nazi Saviors
Udgivet: 7.7.2020 -
Are Braces a Health Disaster?
Udgivet: 23.6.2020 -
The Science Immigrants Who Saved Millions
Udgivet: 9.6.2020 -
Tyrannosaurus sex
Udgivet: 2.6.2020
A topsy-turvy science-y history podcast by Sam Kean. I examine overlooked stories from our past: the dental superiority of hunter-gatherers, the crooked Nazis who saved thousands of American lives, the American immigrants who developed the most successful cancer screening tool in history, the sex lives of dinosaurs, and much, much more. These are charming little tales that never made the history books, but these small moments can be surprisingly powerful. These are the cases where history gets inverted, where the footnote becomes the real story.