Distillations | Science History Institute
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Distillations | Science History Institute is a history podcast hosted by Science History Institute. It has 364 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.
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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Agnes Pockels and the Kitchen Sink Myth
Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment
The CRISPR Babies
Humans and Monsters: An Interview with Surekha Davies
IVF: An Interview with Robin Marantz
Gene Therapy's Families
Gene Therapy's Dark Ages
'The Andromeda Strain': An Interview with Luis Campos
The People vs. Recombinant DNA
Science, Interrupted: Part 2
Science, Interrupted: Part 1
New Season Trailer! Coming August 5th.
The History of the School Lunch
ALS Patients Take on the FDA
The Fraud that Transformed Psychiatry
Cancer Virus Hunters: An Interview with Gregory J. Morgan
The Ames Test
Is Ozempic Different?
Traffication: An Interview with Paul Donald
Dyes, Drugs, and Psychosis
Pink: An Interview with Dominique Grisard
Can Color Heal Us?
The Word for Blue
New Season Trailer! Coming June 4th
Exploring 'Health Equity Tourism'
The Mothers of Gynecology
Correcting Race
"That Rotten Spot"
Black Pills
Bad Blood, Bad Science
The African Burial Ground
Return, Rebury, Repatriate
The Vampire Project
Keepers of the Flame
Calamity in Philadelphia
BONUS EPISODE: Cheddar Man
Origin Stories
New Season Trailer! Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race
Mechanochemistry
Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code
The Sinister Angel Singers of Rome
Disappearing Spoon: The Murderous Origins of the American Medical Association
The Big 'What If' of Cancer
Disappearing Spoon: The Harvard Medical School Janitor Who Solved a Murder
Disappearing Spoon: Burn After Watching
History's First Car Crash Victim
Real Life Zombies
How Climate Change Will Remake the Human Body
The 'Mary Poppins' Cancer
Disappearing Spoon: Kangaroo (and Pig and Monkey and Dog and Donkey) Courts
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