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Novichok: Vil Mirzayanov
Season 1 Episode 74
Novichok is the most deadly chemical weapon ever developed. With us to discuss the history of Novichok is Vil Mirzayanov. Vil worked in the secret So…
2 years, 6 months ago
Pascual Jordan's Duplicity: Ryan Dahn
Season 1 Episode 73
How could a brilliant scientist and mathematician, an innovator in quantum theory, who worked closely with Jewish colleagues, become an ardent Nazi? …
2 years, 7 months ago
Scientific Espionage: Eli Lake
Season 1 Episode 72
Many of the most important secrets held in international contests are technological or scientific in nature, and wars are often settled due to techno…
2 years, 8 months ago
Retrospective: The Franck-Hertz Experiment
Season 1 Episode 71
A retrospective on the Franck-Hertz experiment, which resulted in James Franck and Gustav Hertz receiving the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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2 years, 9 months ago
Retrospective: James Franck
Season 1 Episode 70
A retrospective on James Franck, recipient of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics.
2 years, 10 months ago
Ancient DNA: Maanasa Raghavan
Season 1 Episode 69
The ability to extract DNA from ancient fragments of biological material has revolutionized our understanding of recent evolutionary history, includ…
2 years, 11 months ago
Pandemics: Leslie Reperant
Season 1 Episode 68
The world just experienced a devastating pandemic, yet in the context of historical pandemics, COVID-19 was a relatively minor event in the history o…
3 years ago
Lazaretto: David Barnes
Season 1 Episode 67
Before the advent of the germ theory of disease in the 1870s, quarantine provided one of the few effective means to prevent or alleviate epidemics. T…
3 years, 1 month ago
Climbing, Chemistry & Policy: Arlene Blum
Season 1 Episode 66
What are the commonalities between scaling the world's highest peaks and tackling the most challenging pollution problems? What was it like to enter …
3 years, 2 months ago
Ideology & Science: Lee Jussim
Season 1 Episode 65
Any intellectual endeavor runs the risk of bias. Today we explore ways in which political ideology interferes with scholarship, particularly in the s…
3 years, 3 months ago