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The Episodic Table Of Elements Holiday Special

December 20, 2023

6:00 am

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Art & Science, Bubble Lights, Charles Dickens, Christmas, Education, Electricity, England, Henry Dircks, Holidays, Humphry Davy, Illumination, John Millington, John Pepper, Literature, Magnetism, Medicine, Michael Faraday, Mike Wooldridge, Oxidation, Pepper's Ghost, Poisons, Popular Science, The Royal Institution, The Royal Polytechnic Institution

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♪ O chemistry, o chemistry, the study of all matter ♫

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92. Uranium: Two Untold Tales (Live At Harvard)

May 29, 2023

6:00 am

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Alsos, Belgium, Church Rock, Congo, Edwin Kemble, Espionage, France, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, George Kistiakowsky, Georgius Agricola, Germany, Harvard, Indigenous Americans, Italy, Leslie Groves, Mining, Moe Berg, Navajo Nation, Nazis, Nobel Prizes, Nuclear Accidents, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons, Otto Hahn, Paracelsus, Radioactivity, Samuel Goudsmit, Shinkolobwe, The Manhattan Project, Three Mile Island, United States, Werner Heisenberg, World War II

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America’s worst radioactive accident isn’t Three Mile Island, and the Nazi nuclear physicist wasn’t assassinated by the famous baseball player.

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Something Rather Than Nothing

May 3, 2023

4:51 pm

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Hello! Yes, it has been a while. And it was a while before that, too.

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91. Protactinium: Decolonize Science

October 19, 2022

6:00 am

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Agriculture, Alchemy, Dmitri Mendeleev, Eugenics, George Washington Carver, Imperialism, Kasimir Fajans, Lise Meitner, Multiple Discovery, Otto Gohring, Otto Hahn, Ronald Ross

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Sometimes we need a quiet moment in order to step back and look at the bigger picture.

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