The Disappearing Spoon podcast
Topsy-Turvy Tales from Our Scientific Past
Health & Medicine
Bodies, minds, and the things that help and harm them
When Mosquitoes Cured Insanity
How an early 20th-century doctor pitted one scourge (malaria) against another (syphilis).
Chewing It Over—and Over and Over and Over
How a weird “scientific” diet fad conquered America in the early 1900s.
Why Don’t We Have a Male Birth Control Pill Yet?
Scientists created an effective male birth control pill in the 1950s, but it had one undesirable side effect.
Orphan Vaccines
When the global vaccine supply chain depended on children.