353 Episodes

  1. The Ancient Chemistry Inside Your Taco

    Published: 5/4/2016
  2. Power in the Blood: When Religion and Medicine Meet in Your Veins

    Published: 4/5/2016
  3. Do You Need That Kidney? Rethinking the Ethics of Organ Transplants

    Published: 3/1/2016
  4. DDT: The Britney Spears of Chemicals

    Published: 2/2/2016
  5. Is Space the Place? Trying to Save Humanity by Mining Asteroids

    Published: 1/5/2016
  6. Sex and Gender: What We Know and Don’t Know

    Published: 12/1/2015
  7. Stealing Industry Secrets: Not as Easy as You Think

    Published: 12/1/2015
  8. Genetic Engineering and Organic Farming: An Unexpected Marriage

    Published: 10/6/2015
  9. Where Have All the FEMA Trailers Gone?

    Published: 9/2/2015
  10. Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century

    Published: 7/29/2015
  11. Distillations Turns 200

    Published: 6/30/2015
  12. Acts of God, Acts of Men: When We Turn Nature into a Weapon

    Published: 5/26/2015
  13. Old Brains, New Brains: The Human Mind, Past and Present

    Published: 4/29/2015
  14. Fads and Faith: Belief vs. Fact in the Struggle for Health

    Published: 3/31/2015
  15. Innovation and Obsolescence: The Life, Death, and Occasional Rebirth of Technologies

    Published: 2/13/2015
  16. Trash Talk: The Persistence of Waste

    Published: 1/20/2015
  17. Life with HIV: Success without a Cure?

    Published: 12/16/2014
  18. Babies on Demand: Reproduction in a Technological Age

    Published: 11/18/2014
  19. Fogs of War: The Many Lives of Chemical Weapons

    Published: 10/21/2014
  20. Wake up and Smell the Story: Sniffing out Health and Sickness

    Published: 9/23/2014

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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.