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, 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.
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  • The Worst of Times, the Asbestos Times

    The Worst of Times, the Asbestos Times
    May 6 2025

    Asbestos was once considered a miracle substance—a wonder of the modern age, due to its role in stopping the fires that once plagued every major city. Unfortunately, it also shreds people’s lungs. Most countries were willing to live with that trade-off, until a crusading doctor named Irving Selikoff made it his life's mission to get asbestos banned.

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    18 m
  • Human Photosynthesis

    Human Photosynthesis
    Apr 29 2025

    Rickets was once a devastating disease: up to 90 percent of the children showed symptoms in some cities, including bent spines and bowed legs, and it resulted in many women dying during childbirth. The search for the cause of rickets took decades, and ended with a startling discovery—that much like plants, human beings had the ability to photosynthesize.

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    19 m
  • The Sad Story of Darwin’s Self-Procleimed “Stupidest” Child

    The Sad Story of Darwin’s Self-Procleimed “Stupidest” Child
    Apr 22 2025

    Leonard Darwin had a lot to live up to. He was the son of the legendary Charles, and several siblings proved to be brilliant scientists as well. But Leonard never quite measured up as a mediocre military officer and two-bit politician. In his fifties, he pronounced his life a “failure.” But in his sixties, he finally found his calling—the dark pseudoscience of eugenics, a field he embraced in part to prove that he wasn’t the failure he imagined.

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    19 m
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The content is amazing

The content is interesting, entertaining, and makes you eager to learn more. It is a great podcast!

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it's interesting. so many ads

Stories are interesting to listen to. short and well read.

Each short episode has an ad in the middle, ad for his other books and his patreon, and an ad at the end for the science and history institute, all of which are said to be necessary in making the podcast happen. I'd rather pay.
There are few weak episodes such as the cancer episode with wild speculation that is outright not how cancer research works.

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great stories.. commercials are annoying

love the stories.. commercials are extremely annoying. the podcast itself is very well done and much entertaining

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Things that make you go hmmm 🤔

Interesting topics along with excellent narration/presentation. I am enjoying these stories very much. Definitely recommend.

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