Distillations
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/podcast
- https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations
Revealing science’s role in a complicated and strange world. Produced by the Science History Institute.
Series
- From: Distillations
- Updated: Apr 23, 2018
- From: Distillations
- Updated: May 03, 2023
Pieces
We continue to bring you some of our favorite segments from past episodes of Distillations: Senescence, Richard Holmes, and Boy Rocketeer.
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 14:06
On this episode Distillations looks back to the future. We compare what people thought the modern world would look like with today's reality.
Bought by Radio Catskill
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 12:18
- Purchases: 1
Innovation can be messy work, and sometimes outright disastrous. In this episode of Distillations we look at some of the 20th century’s most infamo...
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 11:46
If you could live forever, would you? Though most believe this to be a hypothetical question, there are some scientific processes that impart etern...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 10:57
- Purchases: 1
Before pharmaceuticals existed, all medicines had to come from natural sources—like plants. On this episode, we focus on such remedies.
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 13:15
As atmospheric carbon dioxide increases, does the world have to get hotter? Controlling the earth’s weather and climate is the topic of this episode.
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 11:54
In this episode, a celebration of meat: segments on an all-natural meat tenderizer, BBQ'ed carcinogens, and the history of steak.
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 11:55
- Purchases: 2
In this episode we pay tribute to the periodic table. We talk to Sam Kean, author of the best-selling book The Disappearing Spoon; hear an excerpt ...
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 14:04
This episode will have your skin crawling… literally. In honor of Halloween we bring you a show revealing a scarier (and squirmier) side of science.
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 15:30
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 09:10
- Purchases: 1
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