The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

A podcast by Sam Kean - Tuesdays

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96 Episodes

  1. Real Life Zombies

    Published: 26/10/2021
  2. How Climate Change Will Remake the Human Body

    Published: 19/10/2021
  3. The ‘Mary Poppins’ Cancer

    Published: 12/10/2021
  4. Kangaroo (and Pig and Monkey and Dog and Donkey) Courts

    Published: 5/10/2021
  5. Icepick Surgeon audiobook excerpt

    Published: 13/07/2021
  6. The Anatomy Riots

    Published: 1/06/2021
  7. When a Hole in the Head Is Good for You

    Published: 25/05/2021
  8. When Mosquitos Cured Insanity

    Published: 18/05/2021
  9. The Death of the Lord God Bird

    Published: 11/05/2021
  10. Chewing it Over—and Over and Over and Over

    Published: 4/05/2021
  11. What's the Longest Word in the English Language?

    Published: 27/04/2021
  12. Why Don't We Have a Male Birth Control Pill Yet?

    Published: 20/04/2021
  13. Bonus interview with WNYC's Science Diction

    Published: 16/04/2021
  14. Marie Curie's (Nearly Disastrous) Trip to America

    Published: 13/04/2021
  15. The Most Important Lost Fossils in History

    Published: 6/04/2021
  16. The World’s First Global Vaccine Supply Chain Was Orphan Children

    Published: 30/03/2021
  17. The Joys, and Pains, of Operating on Yourself

    Published: 30/11/2020
  18. A School Shooting for Science

    Published: 13/11/2020
  19. Star Wars, Death Rays, and Donald Trump

    Published: 15/10/2020
  20. Vitamin G

    Published: 1/10/2020

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