The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

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The Debaucherous Legacy of Johnny Appleseed

The Johnny Appleseed of Disney fame was complete bunk. He brought not wholesome apples to people, but liquor—and lots of it, all thanks to the bizarre biology of this misunderstood fruit... Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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  The Winter when People Ate Tulips

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  Why Keep a Diary of a Toxic Snakebite?

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  Machiavellian Microbes

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  The Woman Who “Turned Back a Plague of Old Testament Proportions”

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  The Doom Lurking inside Trees

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  The Mona Lisa of the Seine

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  Savant Idiots

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  When Mummymania Swept the World

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  The Sadder Side of the Nobel Prizes

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  The Scientific Way to Fool a Nazi

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  The Mysterious Mote

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  The Science of D-Day

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  Can Plastic Surgery Keep You out of Prison?

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  The Russian Roswell

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  When Tenure Means Life and Death

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  A Deadly Soup for Babies