The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

110 Episodes

1. The Birds and the Bees and the Frogs

   Published: 4/15/2025
2. The Would-Be Saint's Battle over Down Syndrome

   Published: 4/8/2025
3. The Battle over Human Chromosomes

   Published: 4/1/2025
4. The Halley's Comet Panic

   Published: 3/25/2025
5. The Winter when People Ate Tulips

   Published: 12/10/2024
6. Why Keep a Diary of a Toxic Snakebite?

   Published: 12/3/2024
7. Machiavellian Microbes

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

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

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

    Published: 10/29/2024
11. Savant Idiots

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 4/16/2024