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james2che
Jan 5, 2025
I like Sam Kean's podcasts with sound effects even more than Ally Ward, but don't tell her
Apr 10, 2021
HKT
Oct 31, 2020
A cornucopia of fascinating stories well told. Doesn't need the sound effects but still recommended.
Mahe
Jun 12, 2020
I loved the Book, and now the podcast! Great Job.
Stephanie
May 23, 2020
I love this podcast! I can't wait until the next episode comes out!
Episode | Date |
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The Winter when People Ate Tulips
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Dec 10, 2024 |
Why Keep a Diary of a Toxic Snakebite?
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Dec 03, 2024 |
Machiavellian Microbes
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Nov 19, 2024 |
The Woman Who “Turned Back a Plague of Old Testament Proportions”
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Nov 12, 2024 |
The Doom Lurking inside Trees
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Nov 04, 2024 |
The Mona Lisa of the Seine
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Oct 29, 2024 |
Savant Idiots
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Oct 22, 2024 |
When Mummymania Swept the World
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Oct 15, 2024 |
The Sadder Side of the Nobel Prizes
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Oct 08, 2024 |
The Scientific Way to Fool a Nazi
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Sep 30, 2024 |
The Mysterious Mote
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Jun 26, 2024 |
The Science of D-Day
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May 14, 2024 |
Can Plastic Surgery Keep You out of Prison?
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May 07, 2024 |
The Russian Roswell
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Apr 30, 2024 |
When Tenure Means Life and Death
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Apr 23, 2024 |
A Deadly Soup for Babies
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Apr 16, 2024 |
How the “Worst Serial Killer in Holland’s History” Went Free
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Apr 09, 2024 |
The Eclipse that Killed a King
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Apr 02, 2024 |
When Generosity Turns Pathological
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Mar 26, 2024 |
The Sex-Cult “Antichrist” Who Rocketed Us to Space (part 2)
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Mar 19, 2024 |
The Sex-Cult “Antichrist” Who Rocketed Us to Space (part 1)
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Mar 12, 2024 |
Don't Drink the Milk bonus episode - Milk: From mutations to mustaches
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Jan 16, 2024 |
Was Darwin a Murderer?
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Nov 14, 2023 |
Mass Psychosis in Food Science
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Nov 07, 2023 |
Accounting for Taste
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Oct 31, 2023 |
If Indiana Jones Were a Swindler
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Oct 24, 2023 |
The British Tobacco Empire
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Oct 17, 2023 |
"Moldy Mary," The Forgotten Mother of Penicillin
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Oct 10, 2023 |
The Most Exclusive Club in the World
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Oct 03, 2023 |
Death-Defying Science at 75,000 Feet
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Sep 26, 2023 |
Proving Einstein Right
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Sep 20, 2023 |
Einstein's Golden Moment
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Sep 12, 2023 |
Everything You Know About Phineas Gage Is Wrong
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Jul 11, 2023 |
Why Do We Obsess Over Charles Darwin’s Health?
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Jun 27, 2023 |
The Seeds of Starvation
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Jun 20, 2023 |
When Scientific Brilliance Isn’t Enough
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Jun 13, 2023 |
The Curse of Knowing Too Much
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Jun 06, 2023 |
The Enigmas of Foreign Accent Syndrome
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May 30, 2023 |
The World’s Only Natural Nuclear Reactor
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May 23, 2023 |
How New DNA Sleuthing Can Expose Dangerous Killers—and You
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May 16, 2023 |
The Real Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer
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May 09, 2023 |
The Brilliant, Groundbreaking, and Wildly Overrated Leonardo da Vinci
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May 02, 2023 |
Spring update and "Innate" trailer
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Feb 06, 2023 |
Death Squared
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Nov 29, 2022 |
Death by Nutrition
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Nov 22, 2022 |
The Roadside Apocalypse
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Nov 15, 2022 |
The Blind Visionary
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Nov 08, 2022 |
The Scariest Paradise on Earth
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Nov 01, 2022 |
The Naked Shibboleth
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Oct 25, 2022 |
The Debaucherous Legacy of Johnny Appleseed
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Oct 18, 2022 |
The Most Evil Molecule
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Oct 11, 2022 |
The Life-Saving Rat Poison
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Oct 04, 2022 |
The Making of a Lobotomist
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Sep 27, 2022 |
Icepick Surgeon bonus excerpt on the making of the Unabomber
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Jul 12, 2022 |
The Murderer Who Made Movies Possible
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May 10, 2022 |
Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and the Irish Giant
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May 03, 2022 |
The Screwiest—and Perhaps Most Original—Idea of the 20th Century
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Apr 26, 2022 |
The Bird with Four Sexes
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Apr 19, 2022 |
When the Brain Deceives Itself
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Apr 12, 2022 |
Stephen Hawking and the Black Hole Mistake that Made His Career
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Apr 05, 2022 |
Albert Einstein and the Worst Prediction in the History of Science
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Mar 29, 2022 |
How to Be Smarter than Isaac Newton
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Mar 22, 2022 |
Claude Monet and Bee Purple
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Mar 15, 2022 |
The Unsung Heroes of Darwin’s Evolution
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Mar 08, 2022 |
The Sinister Angel Singers of Rome
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Dec 07, 2021 |
The Murderous Origins of the American Medical Association
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Nov 30, 2021 |
The Big ‘What If’ of Cancer
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Nov 23, 2021 |
The Harvard Medical School Janitor Who Solved a Murder
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Nov 16, 2021 |
Burn After Watching
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Nov 09, 2021 |
History’s First Car Crash Victim
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Nov 02, 2021 |
Real Life Zombies
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Oct 26, 2021 |
How Climate Change Will Remake the Human Body
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Oct 19, 2021 |
The ‘Mary Poppins’ Cancer
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Oct 12, 2021 |
Kangaroo (and Pig and Monkey and Dog and Donkey) Courts
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Oct 05, 2021 |
Icepick Surgeon audiobook excerpt
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Jul 13, 2021 |
The Anatomy Riots
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Jun 01, 2021 |
When a Hole in the Head Is Good for You
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May 25, 2021 |
When Mosquitos Cured Insanity
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May 18, 2021 |
The Death of the Lord God Bird
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May 11, 2021 |
Chewing it Over—and Over and Over and Over
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May 04, 2021 |
What's the Longest Word in the English Language?
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Apr 27, 2021 |
Why Don't We Have a Male Birth Control Pill Yet?
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Apr 20, 2021 |
Bonus interview with WNYC's Science Diction
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Apr 16, 2021 |
Marie Curie's (Nearly Disastrous) Trip to America
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Apr 13, 2021 |
The Most Important Lost Fossils in History
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Apr 06, 2021 |
The World’s First Global Vaccine Supply Chain Was Orphan Children
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Mar 30, 2021 |
The Joys, and Pains, of Operating on Yourself
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Nov 30, 2020 |
A School Shooting for Science
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Nov 13, 2020 |
Star Wars, Death Rays, and Donald Trump
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Oct 15, 2020 |
Vitamin G
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Oct 01, 2020 |
The CIA’s Drug-Fueled Orgies and You
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Sep 15, 2020 |
From Siberia with (Manipulative) Love
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Sep 01, 2020 |
The Man Who Couldn’t Read Numbers
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Aug 17, 2020 |
The Teflon Bomb
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Aug 06, 2020 |
Chocolate Cake & Atomic Bombs
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Aug 01, 2020 |
The Ice Island Murder
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Jul 14, 2020 |
Our Slimy Nazi Saviors
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Jul 07, 2020 |
Are Braces a Health Disaster?
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Jun 23, 2020 |
The Science Immigrants Who Saved Millions
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Jun 09, 2020 |
Tyrannosaurus sex
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Jun 02, 2020 |
The Lost Dinosaurs of Central Park
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May 22, 2020 |
Exposing Nazi Medical Atrocities
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May 11, 2020 |
Glove at First Sight
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Apr 27, 2020 |
Galileo and Art, part 2
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Apr 20, 2020 |
Galileo and Art, part 1
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Apr 20, 2020 |
Tea Test Tempest
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Oct 26, 2019 |