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
The Anatomy Riots
How early anatomists provoked some of the strangest riots in history, by stealing the dead bodies of the poor.
When a Hole in the Head is a Good Thing
How a rogue archaeologist in Peru found indisputable evidence of something previously unthinkable—ancient neurosurgery.
The Disappearing Spoon: When Mosquitoes Cured Insanity
How an early 20th century doctor pitted one scourge (malaria) against another (syphilis). Credits Host: Senior Producer: Producer: Audio Engineer: Music: “Delamine” by . All other music composed by .
The Death of the Lord God Bird
How greed, and a group of Nazi prisoners, killed off one of the most iconic birds in American history, the ivory-billed woodpecker.
Disappearing spoon: Chewing it Over—and Over and Over and Over
How a weird "scientific" diet fad conquered America in the early 1900s.
The Disappearing Spoon: What's the Longest Word in the English Language?
And what does it have to do with the unusual chemistry of carbon?
The Disappearing Spoon: Why Don’t We Have a Male Birth Control Pill Yet?
Scientists created an effective male birth control pill in the 1950s, but it had one undesirable side effect.
The Disappearing Spoon: Crowdfunding Radium
When American women bought Marie Curie a vital gram of the element.
The Disappearing Spoon: Parking lot or Peking lot?
Have modern archeologists finally tracked down the legendary “Peking Man” bones?