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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.
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Episodes (361)
Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Na...
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What Causes Alzheimer's?
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What the All Souls Trilogy Teaches Us about Alchemy, Family, and Knowledge Hiera...
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Chasing Immortality
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Interview with Jeremiah McCall
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Learning History with Video Games
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Ladies Talking to Ladies about Ladies (in Science)
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Paradise Is Burning
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Interview with Colin Dickey
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Ghost Hunting in the 19th Century
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Vampire Panic
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We're Back! Distillations Summer Season Preview
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Interview with Stéphane Bancel
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The Disappearing Spoon: The Anatomy Riots
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When a Hole in the Head is a Good Thing
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The Disappearing Spoon: When Mosquitoes Cured Insanity
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The Death of the Lord God Bird
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Disappearing spoon: Chewing it Over—and Over and Over and Over
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The Disappearing Spoon: What's the Longest Word in the English Language?
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The Disappearing Spoon: Why Don't We Have a Male Birth Control Pill Yet?
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The Disappearing Spoon: Crowdfunding Radium
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The Disappearing Spoon: Parking lot or Peking lot?
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The Disappearing Spoon: Orphan Vaccines
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Tales of Love and Madness from the Periodic Table
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Predicting the Pandemic: An interview with Wendy Zukerman, Host of "Science Vs."...
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COVID's Hidden Toll on Nurses
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Between Us and Catastrophe
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Space Junk
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Who Owns Outer Space?
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The Alchemical Origins of Occupational Medicine
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Bonus Episode: Doing Science with an Invisible Disability
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Science and Disability Part 2
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Bonus Episode: A Short History of Disability in the United States
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Science and Disability
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Collecting Monstrosity
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Preview: New Season Coming August 4th!
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BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with Magda Marquet
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BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with Robert Langer
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BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with Mark Stevenson
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BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with John Maraganore
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BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with Katrine Bosley
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BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with William Haseltine
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BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with Susan Weiss
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BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with Sue Desmond-Hellmann
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BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with John C. Martin
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BONUS EPISODE: Spit Spreads Death
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BONUS EPISODE: The Blooper Reel
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Preview: We're moving to seasons!
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How Philadelphia's Water Pollution Problems Shaped the City
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BONUS EPISODE: Jane Hodgson
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