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

106 Episodes
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Albert Einstein and the Worst Prediction in the History of Science
Published: 29/03/2022 -
How to Be Smarter than Isaac Newton
Published: 22/03/2022 -
Claude Monet and Bee Purple
Published: 15/03/2022 -
The Unsung Heroes of Darwin’s Evolution
Published: 08/03/2022 -
The Sinister Angel Singers of Rome
Published: 07/12/2021 -
The Murderous Origins of the American Medical Association
Published: 30/11/2021 -
The Big ‘What If’ of Cancer
Published: 23/11/2021 -
The Harvard Medical School Janitor Who Solved a Murder
Published: 16/11/2021 -
Burn After Watching
Published: 09/11/2021 -
History’s First Car Crash Victim
Published: 02/11/2021 -
Real Life Zombies
Published: 26/10/2021 -
How Climate Change Will Remake the Human Body
Published: 19/10/2021 -
The ‘Mary Poppins’ Cancer
Published: 12/10/2021 -
Kangaroo (and Pig and Monkey and Dog and Donkey) Courts
Published: 05/10/2021 -
Icepick Surgeon audiobook excerpt
Published: 13/07/2021 -
The Anatomy Riots
Published: 01/06/2021 -
When a Hole in the Head Is Good for You
Published: 25/05/2021 -
When Mosquitos Cured Insanity
Published: 18/05/2021 -
The Death of the Lord God Bird
Published: 11/05/2021 -
Chewing it Over—and Over and Over and Over
Published: 04/05/2021
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.