Distillations | Science History Institute

353 Episodes

1. The Ancient Chemistry Inside Your Taco

   Published: 5/4/2016
2. Power in the Blood: When Religion and Medicine Meet in Your Veins

   Published: 4/5/2016
3. Do You Need That Kidney? Rethinking the Ethics of Organ Transplants

   Published: 3/1/2016
4. DDT: The Britney Spears of Chemicals

   Published: 2/2/2016
5. Is Space the Place? Trying to Save Humanity by Mining Asteroids

   Published: 1/5/2016
6. Sex and Gender: What We Know and Don’t Know

   Published: 12/1/2015
7. Stealing Industry Secrets: Not as Easy as You Think

   Published: 12/1/2015
8. Genetic Engineering and Organic Farming: An Unexpected Marriage

   Published: 10/6/2015
9. Where Have All the FEMA Trailers Gone?

   Published: 9/2/2015
10. Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century

    Published: 7/29/2015
11. Distillations Turns 200

    Published: 6/30/2015
12. Acts of God, Acts of Men: When We Turn Nature into a Weapon

    Published: 5/26/2015
13. Old Brains, New Brains: The Human Mind, Past and Present

    Published: 4/29/2015
14. Fads and Faith: Belief vs. Fact in the Struggle for Health

    Published: 3/31/2015
15. Innovation and Obsolescence: The Life, Death, and Occasional Rebirth of Technologies

    Published: 2/13/2015
16. Trash Talk: The Persistence of Waste

    Published: 1/20/2015
17. Life with HIV: Success without a Cure?

    Published: 12/16/2014
18. Babies on Demand: Reproduction in a Technological Age

    Published: 11/18/2014
19. Fogs of War: The Many Lives of Chemical Weapons

    Published: 10/21/2014
20. Wake up and Smell the Story: Sniffing out Health and Sickness

    Published: 9/23/2014