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Chemical Sense & Nonsense: Joe Schwarcz
Season 1 Episode 44
The history of science is punctuated by both the greatest achievements and the greatest tragedies of human endeavors. The development of organic chem…
5 years ago
Number Theory: Bryden Cais
Season 1 Episode 43
The history of mathematics extends back millennia. The needs of trade, taxation, and time-keeping drove the development of principles of arithmetic, …
5 years, 1 month ago
Euclid's Elements: David Acheson
Season 1 Episode 42
The most important book in the history of mathematics is Euclid's Elements. The book – really 13 short books bound together into a single treatise – …
5 years, 2 months ago
Galileo's Dialogue: John Heilbron
Season 1 Episode 41
Galileo occupies an inflection point in the history of science and society. Born in 1564, Galileo changed the trajectory of science though his work i…
5 years, 3 months ago
H.M.S. Challenger: Doug Macdougall
Season 1 Episode 40
The creation of a new discipline based upon a single scientific expedition is a rare occurrence, but this is what resulted from the 1872-1876 expedit…
5 years, 4 months ago
Reproductive Health: Shanna Swan
Season 1 Episode 39
In the early 1990s, scientists discovered that sperm counts in industrialized countries had declined precipitously over the previous half century. It…
5 years, 5 months ago
Falsifiability: Sean Carroll
Season 1 Episode 38
The boundaries of science are clear, and can be demarcated by the concept of falsifiability. Or so we learn in our science classes. But with some are…
5 years, 6 months ago
Environmental Health: Linda Birnbaum
Season 1 Episode 37
Human health and environmental health are inextricably linked. We are negatively impacted by the same pollutants that harm other organisms, and we al…
5 years, 7 months ago
Dark Money: David Michaels
Season 1 Episode 36
How is it that corporations routinely and successfully obfuscate science and seed public doubt on issues of paramount importance, ranging from climat…
5 years, 8 months ago
The Pentagon Papers: Daniel Ellsberg
Season 1 Episode 35
Whistleblowers are admired or vilified. They are saviors of democracy or traitors to their country. They confront those in power and drive the news, …
5 years, 9 months ago