The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

Listen, download, subscribe

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

The British Tobacco Empire

He helped launch the British Empire and spawned a public-health epidemic that killed hundreds of millions of people. Blame him for the lost colony of Roanoke, too. Thomas Harriot has a lot to answer for... 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