<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>
Title | Date published | ||
The Russian Roswell | 2024-04-30 | ||
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 |