The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

110 Episodes

1. When a Hole in the Head Is Good for You

   Published: 5/25/2021
2. When Mosquitos Cured Insanity

   Published: 5/18/2021
3. The Death of the Lord God Bird

   Published: 5/11/2021
4. Chewing it Over—and Over and Over and Over

   Published: 5/4/2021
5. What's the Longest Word in the English Language?

   Published: 4/27/2021
6. Why Don't We Have a Male Birth Control Pill Yet?

   Published: 4/20/2021
7. Bonus interview with WNYC's Science Diction

   Published: 4/16/2021
8. Marie Curie's (Nearly Disastrous) Trip to America

   Published: 4/13/2021
9. The Most Important Lost Fossils in History

   Published: 4/6/2021
10. The World’s First Global Vaccine Supply Chain Was Orphan Children

    Published: 3/30/2021
11. The Joys, and Pains, of Operating on Yourself

    Published: 11/30/2020
12. A School Shooting for Science

    Published: 11/13/2020
13. Star Wars, Death Rays, and Donald Trump

    Published: 10/15/2020
14. Vitamin G

    Published: 10/1/2020
15. The CIA’s Drug-Fueled Orgies and You

    Published: 9/15/2020
16. From Siberia with (Manipulative) Love

    Published: 9/1/2020
17. The Man Who Couldn’t Read Numbers

    Published: 8/17/2020
18. The Teflon Bomb

    Published: 8/6/2020
19. Chocolate Cake & Atomic Bombs

    Published: 8/1/2020
20. The Ice Island Murder

    Published: 7/14/2020