<p>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.</p>

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When Tenure Means Life and Death 2024-04-23
A Deadly Soup for Babies 2024-04-16
How the “Worst Serial Killer in Holland’s History” Went Free 2024-04-09
The Eclipse that Killed a King 2024-04-02
When Generosity Turns Pathological 2024-03-26
The Sex-Cult “Antichrist” Who Rocketed Us to Space (part 2) 2024-03-19
The Sex-Cult “Antichrist” Who Rocketed Us to Space (part 1) 2024-03-12
Don't Drink the Milk bonus episode - Milk: From mutations to mustaches 2024-01-16
Was Darwin a Murderer? 2023-11-14
Mass Psychosis in Food Science 2023-11-07
Accounting for Taste 2023-10-31
If Indiana Jones Were a Swindler 2023-10-24
The British Tobacco Empire 2023-10-17
"Moldy Mary," The Forgotten Mother of Penicillin 2023-10-10
The Most Exclusive Club in the World 2023-10-03
Death-Defying Science at 75,000 Feet 2023-09-26
Proving Einstein Right 2023-09-20
Einstein's Golden Moment 2023-09-12
Everything You Know About Phineas Gage Is Wrong 2023-07-11
Why Do We Obsess Over Charles Darwin’s Health? 2023-06-27
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