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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)
Babes of Science, a Guest Episode
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The Ancient Chemistry Inside Your Taco
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Power in the Blood: When Religion and Medicine Meet in Your Veins
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Do You Need That Kidney? Rethinking the Ethics of Organ Transplants
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DDT: The Britney Spears of Chemicals
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Is Space the Place? Trying to Save Humanity by Mining Asteroids
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Sex and Gender: What We Know and Don't Know
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Stealing Industry Secrets: Not as Easy as You Think
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Genetic Engineering and Organic Farming: An Unexpected Marriage
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Where Have All the FEMA Trailers Gone?
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Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century
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Distillations Turns 200
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Acts of God, Acts of Men: When We Turn Nature into a Weapon
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Old Brains, New Brains: The Human Mind, Past and Present
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Fads and Faith: Belief vs. Fact in the Struggle for Health
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Innovation and Obsolescence: The Life, Death, and Occasional Rebirth of Technolo...
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Trash Talk: The Persistence of Waste
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Life with HIV: Success without a Cure?
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Babies on Demand: Reproduction in a Technological Age
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Fogs of War: The Many Lives of Chemical Weapons
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Wake up and Smell the Story: Sniffing out Health and Sickness
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The Teeth Beneath Your Feet: Oddities in Urban Archaeology
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Intoxication and Civilization: Beer's Ancient Past
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Alchemy's Rainbow: Pigment Science and the Art of Conservation
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Meet Joe Palca: A Radio Story About Making Radio Stories
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Drawing History: Telling the Stories of Science through Comics and Graphic Novel...
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Why the Chicken Became a Nugget and Other Tales of Processed Food
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Digging Up the Bodies: Debunking CSI and Other Forensics Myths
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Zombies! How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Zombie Apocalypse
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Atomic Power and Promise: What's Become of Our Nuclear Golden Age?
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Episode 181: Chemotherapy
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Episode 180: Best of Distillations #12
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Episode 179: Best of Distillations #11
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Episode 178: In the Air
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Episode 177:The Old Show
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Episode 176: The Adult Show
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Episode 175: The Kid Show
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Episode 174: Water Webs
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Episode 173: Power Up
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Episode 172: On Beauty
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Episode 171: Underground Worlds
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Episode 170: Urban Agriculture
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Episode 169: Neighborhood Preservation
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Episode 168: So Argon Walks Into a Bar...
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Episode 167: Cold War Chemistry
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Episode 166: Alchemy After Dark
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Episode 165: In Good Taste
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Episode 164: Bones
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Episode 163: A Day in the Life - Night
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Episode 162: A Day in the Life - Noon
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