Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
Many of us think pumping is a new part of motherhood, but some fascinating 19th- and 20th-century objects from our collections show the practice has been around (in some form) for a long time.
Join Distillations podcast hosts Lisa Berry Drago and Alexis Pedrick as Science History Institute staff members share their favorite objects from our museum, archival, and library collections.
Today’s show looks at how ideas about the body’s equilibrium have changed over the past few centuries.
Meet sodium chloride, the latest nutritional villain. But are the alternatives scarier than the substance it’s replacing? A brief history about a “terrifying” food.
Biologist John Calhoun’s rodent experiments gripped a society consumed by fears of overpopulation.
When horses gallop, do all four hooves ever leave the ground at once? This episode of The Disappearing Spoon recounts the saga that led to the answer.
Alternative currencies flourish in desperate times and situations.
