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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

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17:52
Chewing it Over—and Over and Over and Over
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18:37
What's the Longest Word in the English Language?
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17:57
Why Don't We Have a Male Birth Control Pill Yet?
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26:15
Bonus interview with WNYC's Science Diction
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17:08
Marie Curie's (Nearly Disastrous) Trip to America
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19:21
The Most Important Lost Fossils in History
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20:26
The World’s First Global Vaccine Supply Chain Was...
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17:15
The Joys, and Pains, of Operating on Yourself
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18:39
A School Shooting for Science
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19:09
Star Wars, Death Rays, and Donald Trump
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19:41
Vitamin G
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18:07
The CIA’s Drug-Fueled Orgies and You
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19:32
From Siberia with (Manipulative) Love
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14:50
The Man Who Couldn’t Read Numbers
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19:42
The Teflon Bomb
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19:32
Chocolate Cake & Atomic Bombs
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19:33
The Ice Island Murder
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16:58
Our Slimy Nazi Saviors
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19:28
Are Braces a Health Disaster?
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19:31
The Science Immigrants Who Saved Millions
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