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Science History Podcast — 101 episodes

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Episode 102. Chemicals & Children's Health: Tracey Woodruff

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Episode 101. Longitude: Emily Akkermans

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Episode 100. Bohr's Legacy: Tomas Bohr

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Episode 99. Rapa Nui's Collapse: Mike Pitts

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Episode 98. Retrospective: Tom Lehrer's Mathematics

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Episode 97. Forever Chemicals: Sharon Udasin

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Episode 96. The Weather: Simon Winchester

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Episode 95. The River War: James Muller

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Episode 94. Lead Poisoning: Bruce Lanphear

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Episode 93. Attacks on University Research: Claudia Polsky

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Episode 92. ATSDR: Jaimi Dowdell

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Episode 91. Political Bias: Bill von Hippel

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Episode 90. Physicists as Biologists: William Lanouette

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Episode 89. Göttingen Physics: Tim Salditt, Kurt Schönhammer, & Sarah Köster

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Episode 88. Polymerase Chain Reaction: Henry Erlich

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Episode 87. Meitner's Atom: Marissa Moss

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Episode 86. Quantum Mechanics: Jim Baggott

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Episode 85. SWOPSI: Joel Primack & Robert Jaffe

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Episode 84. The Academy: Bret Stephens

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Episode 83. Hebrew: Shalom Goldman

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Episode 82. Jerusalem Archeology: Jodi Magness

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Episode 81. Nuclear Disarmament: Steve Fetter

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Episode 80. Soviet Nuclear Program: Thomas Cochran

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Episode 79. Endocrine Disruption: Patricia Hunt

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Episode 78. Szilard After The War: William Lanouette

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Episode 77. Szilard's Chain Reaction: William Lanouette

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Episode 76. Malaria & Reminiscences: Nobel Laureate Peter Agre

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Episode 75. Retrospective: Oliver Sacks

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Episode 74. Novichok: Vil Mirzayanov

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Episode 73. Jordan's Duplicity: Ryan Dahn

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Episode 72. Scientific Espionage: Eli Lake

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Episode 71. Retrospective: The Franck-Hertz Experiment

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Episode 70. Retrospective: James Franck

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Episode 69. Ancient DNA: Maanasa Raghavan

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Episode 68. Pandemics: Leslie Reperant

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Episode 67. Lazaretto: David Barnes

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Episode 66. Climbing, Chemistry & Policy: Arlene Blum

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Episode 65. Ideology & Science: Lee Jussim

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Episode 64. Environmental Diplomacy: Mark Lytle

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Episode 63. Paleoanthropology: Evan Hadingham

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Episode 62. Conservation Easement or Easy Pollution? Jaimi Dowdell and Andrea Januta

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Episode 61. Foresight: Thomas Suddendorf

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Episode 60. Planetary Boundary Threats: Bethanie Carney Almroth

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Episode 59. The Civilian Conservation Corps: Neil Maher

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Episode 58. Subtraction: Leidy Klotz

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Episode 57. Bias: Jim Zimring

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Episode 56. Marine Pollution: David Valentine

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Episode 55. DDT: Elena Conis

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Episode 54. Bohr’s Atom: John Heilbron

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Episode 53. Industrial Agriculture: Helen Anne Curry

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Episode 52. Neurological Disorders: Sara Manning Peskin

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Episode 51. Ecological Economics: Herman Daly

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Episode 50. Space & the Sixties: Neil Maher

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Episode 49. Armament & Disarmament: Richard Garwin

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Episode 48. Nuclear Disarmament: Zia Mian

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Episode 47. The Demarcation Problem: Michael Gordin

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Episode 46. Unsettled Research: Mark Lytle

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Episode 45. Wildlife Biology: George Schaller

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Episode 44. Chemical Sense & Nonsense: Joe Schwarcz

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Episode 43. Number Theory: Bryden Cais

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Episode 42. Euclid's Elements: David Acheson

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Episode 41. Galileo's Dialogue: John Heilbron

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Episode 40. H.M.S. Challenger: Doug Macdougall

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Episode 39. Reproductive Health: Shanna Swan

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Episode 38. Falsifiability: Sean Carroll

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Episode 37. Environmental Health: Linda Birnbaum

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Episode 36. Dark Money: David Michaels

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Episode 35. The Pentagon Papers: Daniel Ellsberg

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Episode 34. The Chemical Age: Pete Myers & Frank von Hippel

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Episode 33. Industrial Denial: Barbara Freese

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Episode 32. Materials Science: Ainissa Ramirez

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Episode 31. Science & Poetry: Dava Sobel

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Episode 30. Global Amphibian Declines: David Wake

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Episode 29. Green Chemistry: Terry Collins

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Episode 28. Environmentalism: Paul Ehrlich

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Episode 27. Biodiversity: Thomas Lovejoy

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Episode 26. Linguistics: Noam Chomsky

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Episode 25. Space Science: Pam Melroy

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Episode 24. Conservation of Freshwater Ecosystems: Ian Harrison

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Episode 23. Human Evolutionary Genetics: Jason Wilder

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Episode 22. Sex Differences in the Brain: Margaret McCarthy

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Episode 21. Plutonium: Frank N. von Hippel

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Episode 20. Gravitational Waves: Nobel Laureate Rai Weiss

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Episode 19. Yellow Rain: Matthew Meselson

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Episode 18. Herbicidal Warfare: Matthew Meselson

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Episode 17. Cooperation: Robert Axelrod

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Episode 16. Forensic Science: Bruce Budowle

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Episode 15. Bioterrorism: Paul Keim

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Episode 14. Aquaporins: Nobel Laureate Peter Agre

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Episode 13. Water Sanitation: Dennis Warner

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Episode 12. Climate Change: John Matthews

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Episode 11. Winston Churchill's Science, Part 2: James Muller

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Episode 10. Winston Churchill's Science, Part 1: James Muller

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Episode 9. British Explorers, Part 2: Andrea Hart and Max Barclay

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Episode 8. British Explorers, Part 1: Ian Owens

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Episode 7. Animal Intelligence: Irene Pepperberg

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Episode 6. Chemical Causes of Obesity: Bruce Blumberg

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Episode 5. Explorers and Extinction in Hawaii: Dan Lewis

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Episode 4. Finding Pluto: Kevin Schindler and Will Grundy

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Episode 3. U.S. Congressional Attacks on Science: Melinda Baldwin and Josh Shiode

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Episode 2. Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War: Jose Goldemberg and Frank N. von Hippel