The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

A podcast by Sam Kean, Bleav

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106 Episodes

  1. Albert Einstein and the Worst Prediction in the History of Science

    Published: 29/03/2022
  2. How to Be Smarter than Isaac Newton

    Published: 22/03/2022
  3. Claude Monet and Bee Purple

    Published: 15/03/2022
  4. The Unsung Heroes of Darwin’s Evolution

    Published: 08/03/2022
  5. The Sinister Angel Singers of Rome

    Published: 07/12/2021
  6. The Murderous Origins of the American Medical Association

    Published: 30/11/2021
  7. The Big ‘What If’ of Cancer

    Published: 23/11/2021
  8. The Harvard Medical School Janitor Who Solved a Murder

    Published: 16/11/2021
  9. Burn After Watching

    Published: 09/11/2021
  10. History’s First Car Crash Victim

    Published: 02/11/2021
  11. Real Life Zombies

    Published: 26/10/2021
  12. How Climate Change Will Remake the Human Body

    Published: 19/10/2021
  13. The ‘Mary Poppins’ Cancer

    Published: 12/10/2021
  14. Kangaroo (and Pig and Monkey and Dog and Donkey) Courts

    Published: 05/10/2021
  15. Icepick Surgeon audiobook excerpt

    Published: 13/07/2021
  16. The Anatomy Riots

    Published: 01/06/2021
  17. When a Hole in the Head Is Good for You

    Published: 25/05/2021
  18. When Mosquitos Cured Insanity

    Published: 18/05/2021
  19. The Death of the Lord God Bird

    Published: 11/05/2021
  20. Chewing it Over—and Over and Over and Over

    Published: 04/05/2021

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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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