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Lead Poisoning: Bruce Lanphear
Season 1 Episode 94
Our health, and the health of wildlife, depends on a clean environment. Since the advent of the industrial revolution, our environment has suffered f…
10 months ago
Attacks on University Research: Claudia Polsky
Season 1 Episode 93
The year 2025 has seen the most aggressive moves ever by the US executive branch against scientific research as the Trump Administration has gutted f…
11 months ago
ATSDR: Jaimi Dowdell
Season 1 Episode 92
In Episode 62, I interviewed two Reuters journalists about how industry and government in the United States use conservation easements to avoid rigor…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Political Bias: Bill von Hippel
Season 1 Episode 91
In prior episodes, we examined political interference and bias in science in a few contexts, including episode 3 on the history of U.S. congressiona…
1 year, 1 month ago
Physicists as Biologists: William Lanouette
Season 1 Episode 90
In prior episodes, I have interviewed many people about the history of physics and physics-adjacent topics such as nuclear disarmament. Many of the p…
1 year, 1 month ago
Göttingen Physics: Tim Salditt, Kurt Schönhammer, & Sarah Köster
Season 1 Episode 89
Prior to the rise of Nazism, the University of Göttingen hosted most of the top physicists in the world, either as resident or visiting scientists. W…
1 year, 3 months ago
Polymerase Chain Reaction: Henry Erlich
Season 1 Episode 88
The history of science is punctuated by moments of technological innovation that produce a paradigm shift and a subsequent flurry of discovery. A re…
1 year, 4 months ago
Meitner's Atom: Marissa Moss
Season 1 Episode 87
Lise Meitner was the most important female physicist of the 20th century. She made fundamental discoveries on the atom, including, most famously, bei…
1 year, 5 months ago
Quantum Mechanics: Jim Baggott
Season 1 Episode 86
Humanity's understanding of the universe radically altered with the advent of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century. The theory of quantum mech…
1 year, 5 months ago
SWOPSI: Joel Primack & Robert Jaffe
Season 1 Episode 85
Societal problems big and small typically have a scientific element, often in a central way, yet most scientists are not directly involved in policy.…
1 year, 7 months ago