The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean
A podcast by Sam Kean - Tuesdays
104 Episodes
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Claude Monet and Bee Purple
Published: 3/15/2022 -
The Unsung Heroes of Darwin’s Evolution
Published: 3/8/2022 -
The Sinister Angel Singers of Rome
Published: 12/7/2021 -
The Murderous Origins of the American Medical Association
Published: 11/30/2021 -
The Big ‘What If’ of Cancer
Published: 11/23/2021 -
The Harvard Medical School Janitor Who Solved a Murder
Published: 11/16/2021 -
Burn After Watching
Published: 11/9/2021 -
History’s First Car Crash Victim
Published: 11/2/2021 -
Real Life Zombies
Published: 10/26/2021 -
How Climate Change Will Remake the Human Body
Published: 10/19/2021 -
The ‘Mary Poppins’ Cancer
Published: 10/12/2021 -
Kangaroo (and Pig and Monkey and Dog and Donkey) Courts
Published: 10/5/2021 -
Icepick Surgeon audiobook excerpt
Published: 7/13/2021 -
The Anatomy Riots
Published: 6/1/2021 -
When a Hole in the Head Is Good for You
Published: 5/25/2021 -
When Mosquitos Cured Insanity
Published: 5/18/2021 -
The Death of the Lord God Bird
Published: 5/11/2021 -
Chewing it Over—and Over and Over and Over
Published: 5/4/2021 -
What's the Longest Word in the English Language?
Published: 4/27/2021 -
Why Don't We Have a Male Birth Control Pill Yet?
Published: 4/20/2021
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