Each episode of Distillations podcast takes a deep-dive into a moment of science-related history in order to shed light on the present.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 days 11 hours 56 minutes
Chasing Immortality
Since humans have been living we’ve also been dying—best case scenario: after eight or nine decades and plenty of good times. But we’re not wholly content with that. Never have been, probably never will be. In fact, working on how not to die is...
Interview with Jeremiah McCall
This bonus episode explores how a grade school history teacher from Cincinnati uses video games in the classroom.
Learning History with Video Games
Are historical video games an important tool for learning or do they corrupt our collective understanding of the past?
Ladies Talking to Ladies about Ladies (in Science)
Anna Reeser is a historian of technology and Laila McNeil is a historian of science. Together they co-founded and are editors-in-chief of , an independent magazine about women, gender, history, and popular culture of science. Now the duo has a new...
Paradise Is Burning
Our approach to fighting wildfires is a fantasy, and it’s making them even more catastrophic.
Interview with Colin Dickey
Ghost hunters on television all seem to have a common goal: to prove that ghosts are real using sophisticated, yet inexact technology. Colin Dickey, the author of Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places, says this is not an accident. The...
Ghost Hunting in the 19th Century
Though science and investigations of the paranormal might seem incompatible, they were intertwined for a long time.
Vampire Panic
When an invisible threat plagued rural 19th-century New England, the evidence pointed to the supernatural
We're Back! Distillations Summer Season Preview
This summer leave reality behind and join Distillations for an entire season about fantasy! We're talking vampires! Ghosts! Witches! And we promise, it all has to do with the history of science. Season launches on June 29.
Interview with Stéphane Bancel
Last year Distillations talked to people who have —biomedical researchers, physicians, public health experts, and historians. In this episode we talk to Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, a biotech company that developed one of the three...