The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean
A topsy-turvy science-y history podcast, brought to you by the Science History Institute.
- Website
- https://redcircle.com/shows/disappearing-spoon-a-science-history-podcast-by-sam-kean
- Description
- <p>A topsy-turvy science-y history podcast by Sam Kean. I examine overlooked stories from our past: the dental superiority of hunter-gatherers, the crooked Nazis who saved thousands of American lives, the American immigrants who developed the most successful cancer screening tool in history, the sex lives of dinosaurs, and much, much more. These are charming little tales that never made the history books, but these small moments can be surprisingly powerful. These are the cases where history gets inverted, where the footnote becomes the real story.</p>
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-18 12:10
- last episode published
- 2024-12-10 14:05
- publication frequency
- 17.83 days
- Contributors
- Sam Kean
- Author
- Sam Kean
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 106
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- History Arts Books
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Episodes
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| 2024-12-10 | It’s the 80th anniversary of the Dutch Hongerwinter during World War II, which led to widespread starvation, and an inadvertent breakthrough in treating deadly celiac disease. Podcast season finale below:Our Sponsors:* Check out Uncommon Goods: https:/... |
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| 2024-12-03 | After 40 years of studying snakes, Karl Schmidt finally suffered his first bite. And when he did, he kept a gruesome diary to document the suffering and danger—right up to the edge of death...Our Sponsors:* Check out Uncommon Goods: https://uncommongoo... |
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| 2024-11-19 | Parasites can force animals to do nefarious things by manipulating their minds—including, uncomfortably, the minds of human beings.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy |
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| 2024-11-12 |
The Woman Who “Turned Back a Plague of Old Testament Proportions” In refusing to approve the drug thalidomide, FDA scientist Frances Oldham Kelsey spared thousands of babies from deadly birth defects and revolutionized drug research. But was her legacy all good? Our Sponsors:* Check out Uncommon Goods: https://uncomm... |
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| 2024-11-04 | Japanese physicist Fusa Miyake has sparked a revolution in archaeology by studying radioactive tree rings—work that also terrifies astronomers, who fear it foretells doom for our civilization. Our Sponsors:* Use offer code SPOON at uncommongoods.com ... |
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| 2024-10-29 | A woman who drowned in Paris became one of the most famous faces in the world as the model for CPR dummies, saving millions of lives and inspiring artists from Pablo Picasso to Michael Jackson—all while remaining completely unknown. Our Sponsors:* Us... |
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| 2024-10-22 | In the early 1800s, the first Egyptian mummies in Europe served as a crucial test for evolution—a test that, according to people then, evolution flunked.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/pri... |
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| 2024-10-15 | In the 1800s, mummies found their way into everything from fertilizer to food, and were especially prized as medicine. Mummymania was a strange time...Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/priva... |
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| 2024-10-08 | How did a man who developed a Nobel Prize–worthy idea (green-fluorescing protein, GFP) end up driving a shuttle van for a living, and missing the Prize completely? Therein lies a sad story...Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &a... |
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| 2024-09-30 | Physicist Gyorgy Hevesy had a talent for tricks and stunts—including one that prevented Nazi stormtroopers from stealing a gold Nobel Prize.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy |
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