Science History Podcast

Episode 77. Szilard's Chain Reaction: William Lanouette

Perhaps the most overlooked scientist who played critical roles in the development of the atomic...

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Episode 76. Malaria & Reminiscences: Nobel Laureate Peter Agre

Peter Agre received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins. Peter is a...

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Episode 75. Retrospective: Oliver Sacks

In 1994, while attending graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, I had the...

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Episode 74. Novichok: Vil Mirzayanov

Novichok is the most deadly chemical weapon ever developed. With us to discuss the history of...

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Episode 73. Jordan's Duplicity: Ryan Dahn

How could a brilliant scientist and mathematician, an innovator in quantum theory, who worked...

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Episode 72. Scientific Espionage: Eli Lake

Many of the most important secrets held in international contests are technological or scientific...

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Episode 71. Retrospective: The Franck-Hertz Experiment

A retrospective on the Franck-Hertz experiment, which resulted in James Franck and Gustav Hertz...

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Episode 70. Retrospective: James Franck

A retrospective on James Franck, recipient of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Episode 69. Ancient DNA: Maanasa Raghavan

The ability to extract DNA from ancient fragments of biological material has revolutionized our...

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Episode 68. Pandemics: Leslie Reperant

The world just experienced a devastating pandemic, yet in the context of historical pandemics,...

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Episode 67. Lazaretto: David Barnes

Before the advent of the germ theory of disease in the 1870s, quarantine provided one of the few...

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Episode 66. Climbing, Chemistry & Policy: Arlene Blum

What are the commonalities between scaling the world's highest peaks and tackling the most...

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Episode 65. Ideology & Science: Lee Jussim

Any intellectual endeavor runs the risk of bias. Today we explore ways in which political...

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• 1 año

Episode 64. Environmental Diplomacy: Mark Lytle

The world's environmental problems demand solutions for the common good, which in turn...

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Episode 63. Paleoanthropology: Evan Hadingham

Certain fields of science attract broad interest because of what they tell us about humanity, and...

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Episode 62. Conservation Easement or Easy Pollution? Jaimi Dowdell and Andrea Januta

How could a conservation easement be anything other than a great thing? With us to answer this...

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Episode 61. Foresight: Thomas Suddendorf

For thousands of years, scholars have struggled with what it means to be human. One critical...

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Episode 60. Planetary Boundary Threats: Bethanie Carney Almroth

Johan Rockström and colleagues first proposed the concept in 2009 of planetary boundary threats...

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Episode 59. The Civilian Conservation Corps: Neil Maher

The Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the ensuing worldwide Great Depression left families in...

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Episode 58. Subtraction: Leidy Klotz

The ways people think about matters both big and small, from climate change to daily tasks,...

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