The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

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Savant Idiots

10/22/2024 • 17 min

In the early 1800s, the first Egyptian mummies in Europe served as a crucial test for evolution—a test that, according to people then, evolution flunked.

The Would-Be Saint's Battle over Down Syndrome
The Battle over Human Chromosomes
The Halley's Comet Panic
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
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?

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