353 Episodes

  1. The Teeth Beneath Your Feet: Oddities in Urban Archaeology

    Published: 8/12/2014
  2. Intoxication and Civilization: Beer's Ancient Past

    Published: 6/30/2014
  3. Alchemy's Rainbow: Pigment Science and the Art of Conservation

    Published: 5/5/2014
  4. Meet Joe Palca: A Radio Story About Making Radio Stories

    Published: 3/18/2014
  5. Drawing History: Telling the Stories of Science through Comics and Graphic Novels

    Published: 2/4/2014
  6. Why the Chicken Became a Nugget and Other Tales of Processed Food

    Published: 12/20/2013
  7. Digging Up the Bodies: Debunking CSI and Other Forensics Myths

    Published: 12/3/2013
  8. Zombies! How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Zombie Apocalypse

    Published: 10/22/2013
  9. Atomic Power and Promise: What's Become of Our Nuclear Golden Age?

    Published: 10/21/2013
  10. Episode 181: Chemotherapy

    Published: 9/3/2013
  11. Episode 180: Best of Distillations #12

    Published: 8/19/2013
  12. Episode 179: Best of Distillations #11

    Published: 8/5/2013
  13. Episode 178: In the Air

    Published: 7/22/2013
  14. Episode 177:The Old Show

    Published: 7/8/2013
  15. Episode 176: The Adult Show

    Published: 6/24/2013
  16. Episode 175: The Kid Show

    Published: 6/11/2013
  17. Episode 174: Water Webs

    Published: 5/28/2013
  18. Episode 173: Power Up

    Published: 5/14/2013
  19. Episode 172: On Beauty

    Published: 4/29/2013
  20. Episode 171: Underground Worlds

    Published: 4/16/2013

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Distillations is the Science History Institute’s critically acclaimed flagship podcast. We take deep dives into stories that range from the serious to the eccentric, all to help listeners better understand the surprising science that is all around us. Hear about everything from the crisis in Alzheimer’s research to New England’s 19th-century vampire panic in compelling, sometimes-funny, documentary-style audio stories.