The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean
A podcast by Sam Kean, Bleav

106 Episodes
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The Real Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer
Published: 09/05/2023 -
The Brilliant, Groundbreaking, and Wildly Overrated Leonardo da Vinci
Published: 02/05/2023 -
Spring update and "Innate" trailer
Published: 06/02/2023 -
Death Squared
Published: 29/11/2022 -
Death by Nutrition
Published: 22/11/2022 -
The Roadside Apocalypse
Published: 15/11/2022 -
The Blind Visionary
Published: 08/11/2022 -
The Scariest Paradise on Earth
Published: 01/11/2022 -
The Naked Shibboleth
Published: 25/10/2022 -
The Debaucherous Legacy of Johnny Appleseed
Published: 18/10/2022 -
The Most Evil Molecule
Published: 11/10/2022 -
The Life-Saving Rat Poison
Published: 04/10/2022 -
The Making of a Lobotomist
Published: 27/09/2022 -
Icepick Surgeon bonus excerpt on the making of the Unabomber
Published: 12/07/2022 -
The Murderer Who Made Movies Possible
Published: 10/05/2022 -
Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and the Irish Giant
Published: 03/05/2022 -
The Screwiest—and Perhaps Most Original—Idea of the 20th Century
Published: 26/04/2022 -
The Bird with Four Sexes
Published: 19/04/2022 -
When the Brain Deceives Itself
Published: 12/04/2022 -
Stephen Hawking and the Black Hole Mistake that Made His Career
Published: 05/04/2022
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.