The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

A podcast by Sam Kean, Bleav

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106 Episodes

  1. The Real Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer

    Published: 09/05/2023
  2. The Brilliant, Groundbreaking, and Wildly Overrated Leonardo da Vinci

    Published: 02/05/2023
  3. Spring update and "Innate" trailer

    Published: 06/02/2023
  4. Death Squared

    Published: 29/11/2022
  5. Death by Nutrition

    Published: 22/11/2022
  6. The Roadside Apocalypse

    Published: 15/11/2022
  7. The Blind Visionary

    Published: 08/11/2022
  8. The Scariest Paradise on Earth

    Published: 01/11/2022
  9. The Naked Shibboleth

    Published: 25/10/2022
  10. The Debaucherous Legacy of Johnny Appleseed

    Published: 18/10/2022
  11. The Most Evil Molecule

    Published: 11/10/2022
  12. The Life-Saving Rat Poison

    Published: 04/10/2022
  13. The Making of a Lobotomist

    Published: 27/09/2022
  14. Icepick Surgeon bonus excerpt on the making of the Unabomber

    Published: 12/07/2022
  15. The Murderer Who Made Movies Possible

    Published: 10/05/2022
  16. Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and the Irish Giant

    Published: 03/05/2022
  17. The Screwiest—and Perhaps Most Original—Idea of the 20th Century

    Published: 26/04/2022
  18. The Bird with Four Sexes

    Published: 19/04/2022
  19. When the Brain Deceives Itself

    Published: 12/04/2022
  20. Stephen Hawking and the Black Hole Mistake that Made His Career

    Published: 05/04/2022

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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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