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Distillations is the Science History Institute's critically acclaimed flagship podcast. We take deep dives into stories that range from the serious to the eccentric, all to help listeners better understand the surprising science that is all around us. Hear about everything from the crisis in Alzheimer's research to New England's 19th-century vampire panic in compelling, sometimes-funny, documentary-style audio stories.

Notable Guests

DDr. Katherine Burr Blodgett1×Irving LangmuirIrving Langmuir1×Agnes PockelsAgnes Pockels1×

Episodes (361)

Agnes Pockels and the Kitchen Sink Myth

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Mar 19, 202637:28failed

Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment

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Sep 30, 202552:04pending

The CRISPR Babies

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Sep 11, 202553:33pending

Humans and Monsters: An Interview with Surekha Davies

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Sep 9, 202531:38pending

IVF: An Interview with Robin Marantz

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Sep 2, 202543:49pending

Gene Therapy's Families

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Aug 26, 202542:45pending

Gene Therapy's Dark Ages

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Aug 19, 202549:02pending

'The Andromeda Strain': An Interview with Luis Campos

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Aug 12, 202539:31pending

The People vs. Recombinant DNA

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Aug 5, 202544:33pending

Science, Interrupted: Part 2

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Jul 30, 202544:24pending

Science, Interrupted: Part 1

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Jul 30, 202541:55pending

New Season Trailer! Coming August 5th.

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Jul 25, 20252:29pending

The History of the School Lunch

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May 29, 202549:51pending

ALS Patients Take on the FDA

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Jul 30, 202447:41pending

The Fraud that Transformed Psychiatry

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Jul 23, 202458:09pending

Cancer Virus Hunters: An Interview with Gregory J. Morgan

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Jul 16, 202435:35pending

The Ames Test

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Jul 9, 202443:27pending

Is Ozempic Different?

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Jul 2, 202443:48pending

Traffication: An Interview with Paul Donald

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Jun 25, 202445:18pending

Dyes, Drugs, and Psychosis

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Jun 18, 202435:23pending

Pink: An Interview with Dominique Grisard

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Jun 13, 202423:10pending

Can Color Heal Us?

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Jun 11, 202439:28pending

The Word for Blue

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Jun 4, 202439:13pending

New Season Trailer! Coming June 4th

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May 28, 20242:52pending

Exploring 'Health Equity Tourism'

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Oct 24, 202347:07pending

The Mothers of Gynecology

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Apr 18, 202356:57pending

Correcting Race

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Apr 11, 202348:59pending

"That Rotten Spot"

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Apr 4, 202351:35pending

Black Pills

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Mar 28, 202354:19pending

Bad Blood, Bad Science

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Mar 21, 202359:04pending

The African Burial Ground

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Mar 14, 202344:49pending

Return, Rebury, Repatriate

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Mar 7, 202355:37pending

The Vampire Project

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Feb 28, 202355:48pending

Keepers of the Flame

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Feb 21, 20231:03:24pending

Calamity in Philadelphia

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Feb 14, 202340:51pending

BONUS EPISODE: Cheddar Man

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Feb 10, 20236:49pending

Origin Stories

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Feb 7, 202333:34pending

New Season Trailer! Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race

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Jan 20, 20233:17pending

Mechanochemistry

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Jul 13, 202216:54pending

Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code

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Mar 1, 202223:02pending

The Sinister Angel Singers of Rome

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Dec 7, 202118:41pending

Disappearing Spoon: The Murderous Origins of the American Medical Association

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Nov 30, 202120:22pending

The Big 'What If' of Cancer

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Nov 23, 202120:12pending

Disappearing Spoon: The Harvard Medical School Janitor Who Solved a Murder

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Nov 16, 202121:28pending

Disappearing Spoon: Burn After Watching

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Nov 9, 202120:03pending

History's First Car Crash Victim

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Nov 2, 202114:57pending

Real Life Zombies

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Oct 26, 202117:34pending

How Climate Change Will Remake the Human Body

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Oct 19, 202119:01pending

The 'Mary Poppins' Cancer

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Oct 12, 202119:00pending

Disappearing Spoon: Kangaroo (and Pig and Monkey and Dog and Donkey) Courts

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Oct 5, 202119:23pending
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