The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

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Why Do We Obsess Over Charles Darwin’s Health?

Is it serious historical work? Respectable gossip? Blatantly prying into people’s lives? Retro-diagnosing historical celebrities like Darwin and Lincoln and Hitler and Poe is all of the above and more...

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  The Would-Be Saint's Battle over Down Syndrome

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  The Battle over Human Chromosomes

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  The Halley's Comet Panic

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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?