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
In this episode we are visited by the ghosts of chemistry's past, present, and future, who teach us about Greek fire, red sludge, and the future of...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 13:46
- Purchases: 1
In this episode we learn about the history and future of nuclear power, in the U.S. and abroad.
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 11:12
Rubber has played a shockingly dramatic role in our political and military history. In this episode we revisit the consequences of the natural rubb...
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 12:36
In this episode we learn about how the mass production of oil paints spawned a new artistic movement and get a tour of artist Dove Bradshaw's studio.
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 12:00
From primetime to print, forensic scientists are usually depicted as courtroom heroes, but their real-life work makes for more than a thrilling sto...
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 14:31
In honor of Black History Month, we reveal the lesser known accomplishments of George Washington Carver, and also pull from our oral history collec...
Bought by WKSU, Radio Catskill, and WETD
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 11:57
- Purchases: 3
We continue our 4-part series about earth, air, water, and fire. This episode is about air and how the gases in it have been changing ever since Da...
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 13:18
We continue our 4-part series about earth, air, water, and fire. This episode is about fire and how humans have tried to protect themselves from it.
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 13:14
We continue our 4-part series about earth, air, water, and fire. This episode is about water and the many ways to ensure it is potable.
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 14:30
This begins our 4-part series about earth, air, water, and fire. This episode is about earth and the Marcellus Shale.
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 16:52
- Purchases: 1