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.
| Title | Date published | ||
| Dinner with King Tut audiobook preview | 2025-06-24 | ||
| Why Doctors and Scientists Embraced the Nazis | 2025-05-27 | ||
| Hotter than the Dickens | 2025-05-20 | ||
| Jake Leg Blues | 2025-05-13 | ||
| The Worst of Times, the Asbestos Times | 2025-05-06 | ||
| Human Photosynthesis | 2025-04-29 | ||
| The Sad Story of Darwin’s Self-Procleimed “Stupidest” Child | 2025-04-22 | ||
| The Birds and the Bees and the Frogs | 2025-04-15 | ||
| The Would-Be Saint's Battle over Down Syndrome | 2025-04-08 | ||
| The Battle over Human Chromosomes | 2025-04-01 | ||
| The Halley's Comet Panic | 2025-03-25 | ||
| The Winter when People Ate Tulips | 2024-12-10 | ||
| Why Keep a Diary of a Toxic Snakebite? | 2024-12-03 | ||
| Machiavellian Microbes | 2024-11-19 | ||
| The Woman Who “Turned Back a Plague of Old Testament Proportions” | 2024-11-12 | ||
| The Doom Lurking inside Trees | 2024-11-04 | ||
| The Mona Lisa of the Seine | 2024-10-29 | ||
| Savant Idiots | 2024-10-22 | ||
| When Mummymania Swept the World | 2024-10-15 | ||
| The Sadder Side of the Nobel Prizes | 2024-10-08 |