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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 Naked Shibboleth Oct 25, 2022
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    Naked mole-rats are medical marvels—impervious to cancer and immune to old age. Too bad they’re also vicious murderers...


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    The Debaucherous Legacy of Johnny Appleseed Oct 18, 2022
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    The Johnny Appleseed of Disney fame was complete bunk. He brought not wholesome apples to people, but liquor—and lots of it, all thanks to the bizarre biology of this misunderstood fruit...


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    The Most Evil Molecule Oct 11, 2022
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    It fueled slavery, as well as the Nazi death machine. It kills millions of people every year through cancer and heart disease. And you almost certainly have some in your home. That’s the legacy of sugar...


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    The Life-Saving Rat Poison Oct 04, 2022
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    Warfarin was the best rat poison in history. It’s also, now, one of the most important, life-saving—and freakishly unlikely—drugs in the history of medicine...


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    The Making of a Lobotomist Sep 27, 2022
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    Dr. Walter Freeman blamed himself for the death of his favorite son. But instead of reflecting or growing personally, he used that death to become the most notorious lobotomist in the history of medicine...


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    Icepick Surgeon bonus excerpt on the making of the Unabomber Jul 12, 2022
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    A bonus excerpt from my book The Icepick Surgeon on the making of the Unabomber, through a cruel, unethical psychology experiment at Harvard University...


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    The Murderer Who Made Movies Possible May 10, 2022
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    Like Leonardo and Albrecht Dürer before him, photographer Eadweard Muybridge was a legendary pioneer in both art and science. He was also a cold-blooded murderer.


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    Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and the Irish Giant May 03, 2022
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    Charles Byrne was an eight-foot Irish giant ️who loved a beer or 3 with the lads. His funeral became a legendary party—as well as one of biggest scandals in science history, when a famous anatomist named John Hunter stole his body for dissection.


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    The Screwiest—and Perhaps Most Original—Idea of the 20th Century Apr 26, 2022
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    The New York Times one credited biologist Edward Knipling with “the most original idea of the 20th century.” What was it? A way to fight the screwworm, the vilest parasite on earth—and maybe stop malaria, the deadliest disease in human history, too.


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    The Bird with Four Sexes Apr 19, 2022
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    What a strange little sparrow can teach us about love, sex, human biology, and a whole lot more...


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