Distillations

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Revealing science’s role in a complicated and strange world. Produced by the Science History Institute

 

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170 Pieces

Science + Culture + History

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11 Pieces

Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race


Pieces

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The unnatural history of a carbonated drink.

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Illustration from Obstetric tables depicting the correct use of forceps in 1850., Credit: Spratt, G. (George). Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Once upon a time all births were natural. A lot has happened since then.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:12
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A look back at how outsiders have influenced medicine throughout time.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 13:51
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Are we overestimating artificial intelligence?

  • Added: Aug 10, 2016
  • Length: 28:19
Caption: Famous taxidermist Carl Akeley posing with the leopard he killed with his bare hands
Taxidermy is back. This time, with glitter.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 26:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Babes of Science podcast logo., Credit: Courtesy of Poncie Rutsch
Most people can’t name a single female scientist besides Marie Curie. We hope to change that.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 26:17
Caption: Detail of the Codex Mendoza's folio 60r showing a Mexica mother teaching her daughter to make tortillas., Credit: Michael E. Smith, The Aztecs. Wikimedia Commons.
Dive into the world of nixtamalization, a chemical process that allowed the Mesoamerican empires to thrive and tacos to taste good.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 15:38
Caption: An early blood transfusion from lamb to man, 1705. , Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
Blood is powerful, but it can also be dangerous.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 25:46
Caption: An engraving from Michael Maier's Symbola aureae mensae (1617) depicting an alchemical androgyne.
Society has long had strict ideas about sex and gender binaries, but nature doesn’t always comply.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:33
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We try to untangle the great GMO debate with the help of an unlikely couple—a plant geneticist and an organic farmer.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 34:59