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Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
The Disappearing Spoon explores the contradictions of Korea’s biggest natural wildlife refuge—the war-ravaged border between the North and South known as the DMZ.
Naked mole-rats are blind, yet they can still recognize—and kill—outsiders. The Disappearing Spoon explains how and what it has to do with the Old Testament.
How yellow fever outbreaks in the early United States anticipated much of what we lament about the COVID-19 era.
This Disappearing Spoon episode explores how the legendary gardener’s reputation as the patron saint of the American wilderness ignores his boozy origins.
This episode of The Disappearing Spoon traces how such a sweet treat has caused so much harm—from slavery to the Nazi death machine.
This episode of The Disappearing Spoon follows blood thinner warfarin’s unlikely journey from moldy clover and cow killer to lifesaving drug.
