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Distillations: Stories of Science & Culture

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Distillations: Stories of Science & Culture

Exploring 'Health Equity Tourism'

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a new public...

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The Mothers of Gynecology

Of all wealthy countries, the United States is the most dangerous place to have a baby. Our...

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Correcting Race

Certain medical instruments have built-in methods of correcting for race. They’re based on the...

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"That Rotten Spot"

When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900 the public health department poured all of...

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Black Pills

In 2005 the FDA approved a pill to treat high blood preassure only in African Americans. This...

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Bad Blood, Bad Science

The word “Tuskegee” has come to symbolize the Black community’s mistrust of the medical...

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The African Burial Ground

In 1991, as crews broke ground on a new federal office building in lower Manhattan, they...

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Return, Rebury, Repatriate

In 2019, Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, a community organizer and journalist, learned that the Penn Museum...

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The Vampire Project

In the 1990s a liberal population geneticist launched the Human Genome Diversity Project. The...

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Keepers of the Flame

In the 1970s Barry Mehler started tracking race scientists and he noticed something funny: they...

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Calamity in Philadelphia

In 1793 a yellow fever epidemic almost destroyed Philadelphia. The young city was saved by two...

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BONUS EPISODE: Cheddar Man

In 2018 ancient DNA researchers revealed their analysis of a 10,000 year old skeleton called...

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Origin Stories

It might seem as though the way we think about race now is how we’ve always thought about it—but...

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

Our new season, Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race, drops on February 7th.

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Mechanochemistry

What comes to mind when you think of a chemistry lab? Maybe it’s smoke billowing out of...

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

The Disappearing Spoon, a podcast collaboration between the Science History Institute and New...

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The Sinister Angel Singers of Rome

In this episode of The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean talks about Alessandro Moreschi, the...

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Disappearing Spoon: The Murderous Origins of the American Medical Association

In this episode of The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean talks about the strange origin story of the...

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The Big ‘What If’ of Cancer

In this episode of The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean talks about Hermann Muller, a geneticist who...

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

On this episode of The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean talks about a murder mystery that rocked...

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