The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

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Hotter than the Dickens

When Charles Dickens published Bleak House in 1852, he included a scene where one character spontaneously combusts. 🔥 🔥 🔥 Readers loved it, but one of Dickens’s good friends—a former scientist—blasted Dickens for his scientific ignorance. It ignited one of the strangest controversies in literary history. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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  The Great Balloon Escape

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  The Corny, Cringy, Very Bad Television Show that Just Might Save Your Life

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  Bringing an Extinct Owl Back to Life

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  Trickster, Birder, Soldier, Spy

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  Why Not Just Rename the “Hitler Beetle”?

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  John James Fraudubon

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  The Bird that Made John James Audubon a Legend

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  The Dignity of the Ig Nobel Prizes

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  The Nobel Disease

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  Dinner with King Tut audiobook preview

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  Why Doctors and Scientists Embraced the Nazis

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  Jake Leg Blues

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  The Worst of Times, the Asbestos Times

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  Human Photosynthesis

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  The Sad Story of Darwin’s Self-Procleimed “Stupidest” Child