The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

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Death-Defying Science at 75,000 Feet

9/26/2023 • 20 min

You wouldn’t think a lanky, awkward balloon geek would inspire Hollywood. But the death-defying Auguste Piccard was a worthy namesake for Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek fame... Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Winter when People Ate Tulips
Why Keep a Diary of a Toxic Snakebite?
Machiavellian Microbes
The Woman Who “Turned Back a Plague of Old Testament Proportions”
The Doom Lurking inside Trees
The Mona Lisa of the Seine
Savant Idiots
When Mummymania Swept the World
The Sadder Side of the Nobel Prizes
The Scientific Way to Fool a Nazi
The Mysterious Mote
The Science of D-Day
Can Plastic Surgery Keep You out of Prison?
The Russian Roswell
When Tenure Means Life and Death
A Deadly Soup for Babies

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