The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

A podcast by Sam Kean, Bleav

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106 Episodes

  1. The Sex-Cult “Antichrist” Who Rocketed Us to Space (part 1)

    Published: 12/03/2024
  2. Don't Drink the Milk bonus episode - Milk: From mutations to mustaches

    Published: 16/01/2024
  3. Was Darwin a Murderer?

    Published: 14/11/2023
  4. Mass Psychosis in Food Science

    Published: 07/11/2023
  5. Accounting for Taste

    Published: 31/10/2023
  6. If Indiana Jones Were a Swindler

    Published: 24/10/2023
  7. The British Tobacco Empire

    Published: 17/10/2023
  8. "Moldy Mary," The Forgotten Mother of Penicillin

    Published: 10/10/2023
  9. The Most Exclusive Club in the World

    Published: 03/10/2023
  10. Death-Defying Science at 75,000 Feet

    Published: 26/09/2023
  11. Proving Einstein Right

    Published: 20/09/2023
  12. Einstein's Golden Moment

    Published: 12/09/2023
  13. Everything You Know About Phineas Gage Is Wrong

    Published: 11/07/2023
  14. Why Do We Obsess Over Charles Darwin’s Health?

    Published: 27/06/2023
  15. The Seeds of Starvation

    Published: 20/06/2023
  16. When Scientific Brilliance Isn’t Enough

    Published: 13/06/2023
  17. The Curse of Knowing Too Much

    Published: 06/06/2023
  18. The Enigmas of Foreign Accent Syndrome

    Published: 30/05/2023
  19. The World’s Only Natural Nuclear Reactor

    Published: 23/05/2023
  20. How New DNA Sleuthing Can Expose Dangerous Killers—and You

    Published: 16/05/2023

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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.

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