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Science History Podcast — 104 episodes
Episode 105. Curie's Elements: Dava Sobel
Episode 104. Pugwash: John Holdren
Episode 103. Astronomy: Sarah Alam Malik
Episode 102. Chemicals & Children's Health: Tracey Woodruff
Episode 101. Longitude: Emily Akkermans
Episode 100. Bohr's Legacy: Tomas Bohr
Episode 99. Rapa Nui's Collapse: Mike Pitts
Episode 98. Retrospective: Tom Lehrer's Mathematics
Episode 97. Forever Chemicals: Sharon Udasin
Episode 96. The Weather: Simon Winchester
Episode 95. The River War: James Muller
Episode 94. Lead Poisoning: Bruce Lanphear
Episode 93. Attacks on University Research: Claudia Polsky
Episode 92. ATSDR: Jaimi Dowdell
Episode 91. Political Bias: Bill von Hippel
Episode 90. Physicists as Biologists: William Lanouette
Episode 89. Göttingen Physics: Tim Salditt, Kurt Schönhammer, & Sarah Köster
Episode 88. Polymerase Chain Reaction: Henry Erlich
Episode 87. Meitner's Atom: Marissa Moss
Episode 86. Quantum Mechanics: Jim Baggott
Episode 85. SWOPSI: Joel Primack & Robert Jaffe
Episode 84. Antisemitism and the Academy: Bret Stephens
Episode 83. Hebrew: Shalom Goldman
Episode 82. Jerusalem Archeology: Jodi Magness
Episode 81. Nuclear Disarmament: Steve Fetter
Episode 80. Soviet Nuclear Program: Thomas Cochran
Episode 79. Endocrine Disruption: Patricia Hunt
Episode 78. Szilard After The War: William Lanouette
Episode 77. Szilard's Chain Reaction: William Lanouette
Episode 76. Malaria & Reminiscences: Nobel Laureate Peter Agre
Episode 75. Retrospective: Oliver Sacks
Episode 74. Novichok: Vil Mirzayanov
Episode 73. Pascual Jordan's Duplicity: Ryan Dahn
Episode 72. Scientific Espionage: Eli Lake
Episode 71. Retrospective: The Franck-Hertz Experiment
Episode 70. Retrospective: James Franck
Episode 69. Ancient DNA: Maanasa Raghavan
Episode 68. Pandemics: Leslie Reperant
Episode 67. Lazaretto: David Barnes
Episode 66. Climbing, Chemistry & Policy: Arlene Blum
Episode 65. Ideology & Science: Lee Jussim
Episode 64. Environmental Diplomacy: Mark Lytle
Episode 63. Paleoanthropology: Evan Hadingham
Episode 62. Conservation Easement or Easy Pollution? Jaimi Dowdell and Andrea Januta
Episode 61. Foresight: Thomas Suddendorf
Episode 60. Planetary Boundary Threats: Bethanie Carney Almroth
Episode 59. The Civilian Conservation Corps: Neil Maher
Episode 58. Subtraction: Leidy Klotz
Episode 57. Bias: Jim Zimring
Episode 56. Marine Pollution: David Valentine
Episode 55. DDT: Elena Conis
Episode 54. Bohr's Atom: John Heilbron
Episode 53. Industrial Agriculture: Helen Anne Curry
Episode 52. Neurological Disorders: Sara Manning Peskin
Episode 51. Ecological Economics: Herman Daly
Episode 50. Space & the Sixties: Neil Maher
Episode 49. Armament & Disarmament: Richard Garwin
Episode 48. Nuclear Disarmament: Zia Mian
Episode 47. The Demarcation Problem: Michael Gordin
Episode 46. Unsettled Research: Mark Lytle
Episode 45. Wildlife Biology: George Schaller
Episode 44. Chemical Sense & Nonsense: Joe Schwarcz
Episode 43. Number Theory: Bryden Cais
Episode 42. Euclid's Elements: David Acheson
Episode 41. Galileo's Dialogue: John Heilbron
Episode 40. H.M.S. Challenger: Doug Macdougall
Episode 39. Reproductive Health: Shanna Swan
Episode 38. Falsifiability: Sean Carroll
Episode 37. Environmental Health: Linda Birnbaum
Episode 36. Dark Money: David Michaels
Episode 35. The Pentagon Papers: Daniel Ellsberg
Episode 34. The Chemical Age: Pete Myers & Frank von Hippel
Episode 33. Industrial Denial: Barbara Freese
Episode 32. Materials Science: Ainissa Ramirez
Episode 31. Science & Poetry: Dava Sobel
Episode 30. Global Amphibian Declines: David Wake
Episode 29. Green Chemistry: Terry Collins
Episode 28. Environmentalism: Paul Ehrlich
Episode 27. Biodiversity: Thomas Lovejoy
Episode 26. Linguistics: Noam Chomsky
Episode 25. Space Science: Pam Melroy
Episode 24. Conservation of Freshwater Ecosystems: Ian Harrison
Episode 23. Human Evolutionary Genetics: Jason Wilder
Episode 22. Sex Differences in the Brain: Margaret McCarthy
Episode 21. Plutonium: Frank N. von Hippel
Episode 20. Gravitational Waves: Nobel Laureate Rai Weiss
Episode 19. Yellow Rain: Matthew Meselson
Episode 18. Herbicidal Warfare: Matthew Meselson
Episode 17. Cooperation: Robert Axelrod
Episode 16. Forensic Science: Bruce Budowle
Episode 15. Bioterrorism: Paul Keim
Episode 14. Aquaporins: Nobel Laureate Peter Agre
Episode 13. Water Sanitation: Dennis Warner
Episode 12. Climate Change: John Matthews
Episode 11. Winston Churchill's Science, Part 2: James Muller
Episode 10. Winston Churchill's Science, Part 1: James Muller
Episode 9. British Explorers, Part 2: Andrea Hart and Max Barclay
Episode 8. British Explorers, Part 1: Ian Owens
Episode 7. Animal Intelligence: Irene Pepperberg
Episode 6. Chemical Causes of Obesity: Bruce Blumberg
Episode 5. Explorers and Extinction in Hawaii: Dan Lewis
Episode 4. Finding Pluto: Kevin Schindler and Will Grundy
Episode 3. U.S. Congressional Attacks on Science: Melinda Baldwin and Josh Shiode
Episode 2. Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War: Jose Goldemberg and Frank N. von Hippel