The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

106 Episodes

1. The Winter when People Ate Tulips

   Published: 10/12/2024
2. Why Keep a Diary of a Toxic Snakebite?

   Published: 03/12/2024
3. Machiavellian Microbes

   Published: 19/11/2024
4. The Woman Who “Turned Back a Plague of Old Testament Proportions”

   Published: 12/11/2024
5. The Doom Lurking inside Trees

   Published: 04/11/2024
6. The Mona Lisa of the Seine

   Published: 29/10/2024
7. Savant Idiots

   Published: 22/10/2024
8. When Mummymania Swept the World

   Published: 15/10/2024
9. The Sadder Side of the Nobel Prizes

   Published: 08/10/2024
10. The Scientific Way to Fool a Nazi

    Published: 30/09/2024
11. The Mysterious Mote

    Published: 26/06/2024
12. The Science of D-Day

    Published: 14/05/2024
13. Can Plastic Surgery Keep You out of Prison?

    Published: 07/05/2024
14. The Russian Roswell

    Published: 30/04/2024
15. When Tenure Means Life and Death

    Published: 23/04/2024
16. A Deadly Soup for Babies

    Published: 16/04/2024
17. How the “Worst Serial Killer in Holland’s History” Went Free

    Published: 09/04/2024
18. The Eclipse that Killed a King

    Published: 02/04/2024
19. When Generosity Turns Pathological

    Published: 26/03/2024
20. The Sex-Cult “Antichrist” Who Rocketed Us to Space (part 2)

    Published: 19/03/2024