The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

104 Episodes

1. Machiavellian Microbes

   Published: 11/19/2024
2. The Woman Who “Turned Back a Plague of Old Testament Proportions”

   Published: 11/12/2024
3. The Doom Lurking inside Trees

   Published: 11/4/2024
4. The Mona Lisa of the Seine

   Published: 10/29/2024
5. Savant Idiots

   Published: 10/22/2024
6. When Mummymania Swept the World

   Published: 10/15/2024
7. The Sadder Side of the Nobel Prizes

   Published: 10/8/2024
8. The Scientific Way to Fool a Nazi

   Published: 9/30/2024
9. The Mysterious Mote

   Published: 6/26/2024
10. The Science of D-Day

    Published: 5/14/2024
11. Can Plastic Surgery Keep You out of Prison?

    Published: 5/7/2024
12. The Russian Roswell

    Published: 4/30/2024
13. When Tenure Means Life and Death

    Published: 4/23/2024
14. A Deadly Soup for Babies

    Published: 4/16/2024
15. How the “Worst Serial Killer in Holland’s History” Went Free

    Published: 4/9/2024
16. The Eclipse that Killed a King

    Published: 4/2/2024
17. When Generosity Turns Pathological

    Published: 3/26/2024
18. The Sex-Cult “Antichrist” Who Rocketed Us to Space (part 2)

    Published: 3/19/2024
19. The Sex-Cult “Antichrist” Who Rocketed Us to Space (part 1)

    Published: 3/12/2024
20. Don't Drink the Milk bonus episode - Milk: From mutations to mustaches

    Published: 1/16/2024