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    The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

    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.

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    The World’s Only Natural Nuclear Reactor May 23, 2023
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    What a bizarre site in Africa—a 1.7-billion-year-old, completely natural nuclear reactor—says about the future of energy production on planet Earth...


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    How New DNA Sleuthing Can Expose Dangerous Killers—and You May 16, 2023
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    Genetic genealogy can catch brutal killers. It can also unmask affairs, secret adoptions, and other dark secrets. As well as expose you—yes, you—to the unholy alliance of Big Tech and shady police work...


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    The Real Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer May 09, 2023
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    He coulda would shoulda been the next Einstein. Instead, Robert Oppenheimer fritted away his talents on trendy science and political gamesmanship—and it burned him deep in his soul...


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    The Brilliant, Groundbreaking, and Wildly Overrated Leonardo da Vinci May 02, 2023
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    Leonardo da Vinci was brilliant, groundbreaking—and especially with regard to his science—wildly overrated. All because he lacked one all-important quality: sitzfleisch...


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    Spring update and "Innate" trailer Feb 06, 2023
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    An update on the spring season of Disappearing Spoon (early episodes for Patreon subscribers!), plus a trailer for the new "Innate" series from the great people behind the Science History Institute's "Distillations podcast"


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    Death Squared Nov 29, 2022
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    The “mouse utopia” experiment showed just how quickly animal heaven can turn into animal hell—and revealed how eager human beings are to interpret science through the lens of extremist politics...


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    Death by Nutrition Nov 22, 2022
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    Polar explorer Douglas Mawson made several mistakes on his harrowing journey across Antarctica. But the biggest blunder involved eating animal livers oversaturated with vitamin A, a sure death sentence...


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    The Roadside Apocalypse Nov 15, 2022
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    Automobiles kill several million animals every single day. Scientists are still coming to grips with the carnage...


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    The Blind Visionary Nov 08, 2022
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    Thomas Schall was first blind member of Congress. There, he envisioned a better, smarter, more efficient world—brought about by his radical new calendar. Too bad the rest of us couldn’t see the future as clearly as he did...


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    The Scariest Paradise on Earth Nov 01, 2022
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    The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Korea is a place of guns and heartache and anger—and also one of the most thriving natural wildlife habitats on Earth...


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