The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

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96 Episodes

  1. The Most Evil Molecule

    Published: 11/10/2022
  2. The Life-Saving Rat Poison

    Published: 4/10/2022
  3. The Making of a Lobotomist

    Published: 27/09/2022
  4. Icepick Surgeon bonus excerpt on the making of the Unabomber

    Published: 12/07/2022
  5. The Murderer Who Made Movies Possible

    Published: 10/05/2022
  6. Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and the Irish Giant

    Published: 3/05/2022
  7. The Screwiest—and Perhaps Most Original—Idea of the 20th Century

    Published: 26/04/2022
  8. The Bird with Four Sexes

    Published: 19/04/2022
  9. When the Brain Deceives Itself

    Published: 12/04/2022
  10. Stephen Hawking and the Black Hole Mistake that Made His Career

    Published: 5/04/2022
  11. Albert Einstein and the Worst Prediction in the History of Science

    Published: 29/03/2022
  12. How to Be Smarter than Isaac Newton

    Published: 22/03/2022
  13. Claude Monet and Bee Purple

    Published: 15/03/2022
  14. The Unsung Heroes of Darwin’s Evolution

    Published: 8/03/2022
  15. The Sinister Angel Singers of Rome

    Published: 7/12/2021
  16. The Murderous Origins of the American Medical Association

    Published: 30/11/2021
  17. The Big ‘What If’ of Cancer

    Published: 23/11/2021
  18. The Harvard Medical School Janitor Who Solved a Murder

    Published: 16/11/2021
  19. Burn After Watching

    Published: 9/11/2021
  20. History’s First Car Crash Victim

    Published: 2/11/2021

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