The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

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October 13 The Birds and the Bees and the Astronauts
Birds do it. 🦉 Bees do it. 🐝 But do astronauts a thousand miles above the trees do it? 🚀👩‍🚀 Maybe! Everything you need to know about sex in space.

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Check out my new book from National Geographic - 'The Museum of Lost Things', about the greatest lost treasures in history!

https://www.amazon.com/Museum-Lost-Things-Treasures-Legendary/dp/1426223862
18 min
September 11 The Museum of Lost Things
An audio excerpt from my new book, The Museum of Long Things. Available now!

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Check out my new book from National Geographic - 'The Museum of Lost Things', about the greatest lost treasures in history!

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27 min
June 09 NASA’s Unmentionable(s) Adventure
In the 1960s, NASA needed a better spacesuit. So they turned to the one firm on earth capable of meeting their strict standards—the Playtex underwear company. Episode below!

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Check out my new book from National Geographic - 'The Museum of Lost Things', about the greatest lost treasures in history!

https://www.amazon.com/Museum-Lost-Things-Treasures-Legendary/dp/1426223862
19 min
June 02 The Pioneers and Vestiges of Evolution
His book on evolution rocked 1800s England. Not Charles Darwin. Robert Chambers, whose infamous tome both horrified Darwin, yet paved the way for him.

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Check out my new book from National Geographic - 'The Museum of Lost Things', about the greatest lost treasures in history!

https://www.amazon.com/Museum-Lost-Things-Treasures-Legendary/dp/1426223862
19 min
May 26 The Angel of the Concentration Camp
Nurse Laura Cobb saved more lives than Clara Barton or Florence Nightingale, and under far worse conditions—in a brutal World War II concentration camp. So why did the world forget her?

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Check out my new book from National Geographic - 'The Museum of Lost Things', about the greatest lost treasures in history!

https://www.amazon.com/Museum-Lost-Things-Treasures-Legendary/dp/1426223862
18 min
May 19 The Battery Dope
In the 1950s, scientists hated politics. Then one Allen Astin got fired. After that, scientists knew they had to play politics—or face professional annihilation.

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Check out my new book from National Geographic - 'The Museum of Lost Things', about the greatest lost treasures in history!

https://www.amazon.com/Museum-Lost-Things-Treasures-Legendary/dp/1426223862
19 min
May 12 The Making of the “Flat Earth” Myth
No one in Columbus’s time believed the world was flat. So why did so many children learn this bogus “fact” in school? It all goes back to Rip van Winkle...

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Check out my new book from National Geographic - 'The Museum of Lost Things', about the greatest lost treasures in history!

https://www.amazon.com/Museum-Lost-Things-Treasures-Legendary/dp/1426223862
18 min
May 05 Forensic Pseudoscience
When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, the two most scientific detectives in the world took on the case. But they overlooked the real enemy—their own petty prejudice.

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Check out my new book from National Geographic - 'The Museum of Lost Things', about the greatest lost treasures in history!

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19 min
April 28 Manhattan Project Propaganda
The Smyth Report is the strangest book ever written on atomic bombs—as well as highly effective science propaganda, warping our view of everything from the Manhattan Project to Robert Oppenheimer.

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Check out my new book from National Geographic - 'The Museum of Lost Things', about the greatest lost treasures in history!

https://www.amazon.com/Museum-Lost-Things-Treasures-Legendary/dp/1426223862
18 min
April 21 Back-Breaking Science
When a British sub sank with all hands, JBS Haldane volunteered to investigate by experimenting on himself—even if it meant losing his own life in the process. (Part 2 of 2.)

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Check out my new book from National Geographic - 'The Museum of Lost Things', about the greatest lost treasures in history!

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19 min

About The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

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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,…