Best Consortium For History Of Science Podcasts (2025)

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CCFF x Popaganda Presents: Firebreak 55:12

1M ago55:12

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The Popaganda Podcast is an official Cast & Crew Sponsor of the 15th Annual Capital City Film Fest. Join cohosts Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok in an episode spotlighting the Midwest premiere and Closing Night Feature Firebreak, a deeply moving documentary screening. Firebreak follows Brandon and Royal, two formerly incarcerated firefighter…

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King of the Apocalypse 1:32:34

2M ago1:32:34

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Dakota Adams and the Cost of Extremism. This episode unpacks King of the Apocalypse, a new documentary exposing Stuart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers and key figure in the January 6th insurrection. But this isn’t his story—it’s about the people who survived him. Through the eyes of Dakota Adams, we explore how radicalization and abuse shaped t…

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Neil Gaiman: Power, Control, & Consent 1:06:12

3M ago1:06:12

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What do Neil Gaiman, Scientology, and NDAs have in common? More than you'd think—and none of it is good. Join hosts Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok as they break down the accounts of harm, the power imbalances, and the larger cultural problem with how we talk (or don’t talk) about consent. Listen in as they unpack why we need better ways to …

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Anatomy of Lies 1:11:53

4M ago1:11:53

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On this episode of The Popaganda Podcast, Tashmica and Shannon talk about the explosive new psychodrama series, Anatomy of Lies, which uncovers the jaw-dropping story of Elisabeth Finch, a Grey’s Anatomy writer who fabricated her life story, exploited the empathy of her colleagues, and used the trauma of others for personal gain. Stories like Finch…

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It Ends With Us 1:11:31

5M ago1:11:31

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Shannon and Tashmica discuss It Ends With Us, a TikTok famous, bestselling romance novel written by Colleen Hoover now adapted into the recently released blockbuster drama. Based on the relationship between the author's mother and father, It Ends With Us follows the life and love of the fictional character Lily Bloom starting with her childhood exp…

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Conversation with Elena Conis – Author of How to Sell a Poison, 2024 Welch Award Recipient 51:13

5M ago51:13

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Historians of medicine often express the desire for their work to reach broader audiences; however, popular platforms—be they television, radio, podcasts, corporate or social media—can reach many but touch few. History of Medicine Week is dedicated to exploring the risks, benefits, experiences, and best practices for historians of medicine to make …

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50+2 years of Scholarship: UPenn Hist and Soc of Sci - History of Medicine 1:15:47

6M ago1:15:47

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In October 2022, the University of Pennsylvania HSS Department commemorated it's 50th anniversary, delayed two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over two days, alumni, faculty, and current students gathered to discuss the department's history, its contributions to the field and new directions scholarship might take.In this episode:Chair: Leah…

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50+2 years of Scholarship: UPenn Dept of the Hist and Soc of Sci - History of Technology 1:34:04

6M ago1:34:04

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In October 2022, the University of Pennsylvania HSS Department commemorated it's 50th anniversary, delayed two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over two days, alumni, faculty, and current students gathered to discuss the department's history, its contributions to the field and new directions scholarship might take.In this episode:Chair: Zach…

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50+2 years of Scholarship: UPenn Dept of the Hist and Soc of Sci - History of Science 1:29:19

6M ago1:29:19

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In October 2022, the University of Pennsylvania HSS Department commemorated it's 50th anniversary, delayed two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over two days, alumni, faculty, and current students gathered to discuss the department's history, its contributions to the field and new directions scholarship might take.In this episode:Chair: Came…

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50+2 years of Scholarship: UPenn Dept of the Hist and Soc of Sci - Dept Founder Arnold Thackray 1:01:00

6M ago1:01:00

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In October 2022, the University of Pennsylvania HSS Department commemorated it's 50th anniversary, delayed two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over two days, alumni, faculty, and current students gathered to discuss the department's history, its contributions to the field and new directions scholarship might take.In this episode:Introductio…

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50+2 years of Scholarship: UPenn Dept of the Hist and Soc of Sci - Plenary Presentations 44:04

6M ago44:04

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In October 2022, the University of Pennsylvania HSS Department commemorated it's 50th anniversary, delayed two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over two days, alumni, faculty, and current students gathered to discuss the department's history, its contributions to the field and new directions scholarship might take.In this episode:Chair: M. S…

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I believe you, Big Bird. 1:03:22

6M ago1:03:22

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On the sweetest episode of The Popaganda Podcast, Tashmica tells Shannon a heartwarming story about Big Bird, Snuffleupagus, and the political aspirations of America's longest-running children's TV show, Sesame Street. Big Bird loves his best friend, Aloysius Snuffleupagus and all he wants to do is introduce him to his grownup friends on Sesame Str…

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Beyond the Annual Meeting & History in Therapeutic Spaces 48:17

7M ago48:17

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Historians of medicine often express the desire for their work to reach broader audiences; however, popular platforms—be they television, radio, podcasts, corporate or social media—can reach many but touch few. History of Medicine Week is dedicated to exploring the risks, benefits, experiences, and best practices for historians of medicine to make …

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The Joys and Perils of Relevant History 50:37

7M ago50:37

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Historians of medicine often express the desire for their work to reach broader audiences; however, popular platforms—be they television, radio, podcasts, corporate or social media—can reach many but touch few. History of Medicine Week is dedicated to exploring the risks, benefits, experiences, and best practices for historians of medicine to make …

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Connecting through Literature, Corporate Media, and the Museum 52:35

7M ago52:35

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Historians of medicine often express the desire for their work to reach broader audiences; however, popular platforms—be they television, radio, podcasts, corporate or social media—can reach many but touch few. History of Medicine Week is dedicated to exploring the risks, benefits, experiences, and best practices for historians of medicine to make …

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The Walking Dead with Guest Mia Mingus 1:03:50

7M ago1:03:50

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On this episode of The Popaganda Podcast, Tashmica and Shannon talk with guest Mia Mingus about the post-apocalyptic TV series, The Walking Dead. Viewers watched in horror as Negan brutally murdered Glen in front of his wife Maggie. None of us knew that we'd be on a Transformative Justice journey with two of the show's most compelling characters up…

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The Popaganda Podcast: Come for the pop culture. Stay for the abolition. 1:07

7M ago1:07

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The Popaganda Podcast is an award-winning social justice podcast that explores the pop culture we love and how it inspires us to build a safer, more just world for everyone. Hosts Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok are lifelong survivor activists and pop culture besties who use elevated unscripted commentary to normalize transformative justice …

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History of Science Society at 100: Mining in the history and social studies of science 52:44

8M ago52:44

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Join us for a discussion on the history of mining and the intersections of history of science with several other fields. How are mines sites of knowing the world, and how is that knowledge contested? How has our understanding of what a mine is changed over time, and what does that mean for how mines are studied? What can the methods and sources use…

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DNA Papers 15: A Conversation with Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl 57:58

9M ago57:58

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Tune in one last time to a bonus episode of The DNA Papers with the authors of "the most beautiful experiment in biology" as they reminisce about "the best years of their lives" and field questions from the commentators of episode 14. Series moderator Neeraja Sankaran was joined by historian of science Kersten Hall to co-host this special treat. Ma…

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Get Raptured, Bitch! 1:10:07

9M ago1:10:07

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On this episode of The Popaganda Podcast, Tashmica guides Shannon through the American religious thriller film series, Left Behind. In what feels like an accelerated Vacation Bible School experience, they discuss how and why traditional Evangelical Christian teachings have been used to implement harmful legislation, institutional policies, and soci…

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Mathilda Zeller: Never Whistle at Night 1:01:42

10M ago1:01:42

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On this episode of The Popaganda Podcast, Shannon and Tashmica talk with Mathilda Zeller, author of "Kushtuka”, one of the 29 spine-tingling horror stories included in Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology. She also got in trouble with Tashmica at a tamalada for talking about transformative justice when they were supposed to …

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History of Science Society at 100: History of Science in Song 58:49

10M ago58:49

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Four historians share their interests in music, and their perspectives in using songs as source material for better understanding the history of science.Antony Adler, Carleton CollegeAndrew Fiss, Michigan Technological UniversityAsif Siddiqi, Fordham UniversityBetty Smocovitis, University of FloridaSong Notes:(https://soundcloud.com/antony-adler/th…

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How we Failed Amber Heard 50:52

11M ago50:52

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On this episode of The Popaganda Podcast Shannon and Tashmica discuss how we failed Amber Heard. Despite decades of work to disrupt the stigma and myths surrounding domestic violence, the Depp v. Heard trial gave us all a look at how the court of public opinion continues to demonize survivors seeking justice. Tune in for a conversation about what w…

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Grey's Anatomy 58:13

11M ago58:13

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On this episode of The Popaganda Podcast Shannon and Tashmica are joined by special guest, Hoai An Pham, an abolitionist organizer, graphic designer, animator, public health student, and avid lover of Grey's Anatomy. Together they discuss the radical storytelling that pops up in the halls and on-call rooms of Seattle's Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital …

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Lingo Plinko! Conservatorship 9:22

11M ago9:22

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Our guest zara raven (zara/z), taught us a lot about conservatorship through their love of Britney Spears. Turns out, we were only scratching the surface of this important Disability Justice issue. Find out more on this week's episode of Lingo Plinko. Find the full show notes and links at www.popagandapod.com…

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Baby Reindeer 1:02:01

11M ago1:02:01

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Join Tashmica and Shannon as we discuss the Netflix drama Baby Reindeer. We explore the complexities of surviving domestic and sexual violence, the nuanced portrayals of male survivors and our deep love of the character Teri played by the fabulous and brilliant Nava Mau. Come for the pop culture. Stay for the abolition. For this week’s pop culture …

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IsisCB on Pandemics - On Past, Present, and Possible Future, Pandemic Diseases 1:09:09

12M ago1:09:09

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Episode three of the podcast companion to the Isis CB special issue on pandemics, focuses on the very substance of pandemics, namely the diseases themselves. Join Mark Honigsbaum, Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, and Michael Bresalier in a conversation about the impact of disease on history and on the condition of our planet vis-a-vis current disease…

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True Detective Night Country 57:15

12M ago57:15

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True Detective Night Country was a massive success with not-so-great reviews. Led by Kali Reis, the first Indigenous lead of an HBO series, Hollywood legend Jodie Foster, and Issa Lopez, the Mexican Filmmaker who created, wrote, and directed this powerful supernatural thriller, this season had us - and a record-breaking 3.2 million viewers - on the…

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Satan Wants You 54:45

12M ago54:45

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In today’s episode of The Popaganda Podcast, Tashmica introduces Shannon to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s through the award-winning documentary, Satan Wants You. To scare people back into a Sunday pew, the Catholic Church funded the publication of a book based on the account of a woman who claimed to have survived satanic ritualistic child abuse. …

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DNA Papers 14: Matthew Meselson, Franklin Stahl, and semiconservative replication of DNA 1:01:37

1y ago1:01:37

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The penultimate episode of the DNA Papers podcast series revisits a paper that demonstrated the semiconservative mode of DNA replication, which had been predicted by complementary base-paired double helix model of the molecule discussed in episode 13 of this series:Meselson, Matthew, and Franklin W. Stahl. “The replication of DNA in Escherichia col…

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Britney Spears with Guest Zara Raven 1:00:12

1y ago1:00:12

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Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok discuss Britney Spears, the nuances of conservatorship, mad liberation, and the liberatory possibilities of dancing on the internet with our first guest ever - mad queer mama, Zara Raven. Zara Raven isn't just our premiere Abolitionist Britney building a world without prisons + policing, starting at home. They…

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Lingo Plinko! Abortion Trafficking is the New Satanic Panic 6:19

1y ago6:19

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What do abortion and human trafficking have in common? Find out on this week's episode of Lingo Plinko. Read the full article at https://accountablecommunities.com/writing Find the full show notes and links at www.popagandapod.comBy Shannon Perez-Darby & Tashmica Torok

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Sound of Freedom 1:09:49

1y ago1:09:49

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Tim Ballard is a lying, McLiar face (allegedly) but that doesn’t mean that he hasn’t had an indelible impact on how everyday Americans understand or misunderstand the sexual exploitation of children around the globe. But how did this qanon-tinged thriller become the 10th biggest domestic film of the year? Join Shannon and Tashmica for a conversatio…

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Lingo Plinko! Criminal Legal System 5:19

1y ago5:19

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Why do Shannon and Tashmica say the criminal legal system instead of the criminal justice system? Tashmica breaks it down with a little help from the Bureau of Justice and the Vera Institute for Justice. Functions of Criminal Justice Why we say "criminal legal system," Not "criminal justice system" Season 2 of The Popaganda Podcast launched on Mond…

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Tom Cruise & Scientology 59:32

1y ago59:32

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Tom Cruise once claimed Scientology had solved humanity’s greatest challenges. To which Shannon and Tashmica say, “What now?” The Popaganda Podcast kicks off season 2 with a conversation about “Tom Cruise on Tom Cruise, Scientologist”. An American actor, producer, and celebrity Scientologist, Tom Cruise is the lead in major blockbuster films like T…

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The Popaganda Podcast Season 2 Trailer 1:46

1y ago1:46

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The Popaganda Podcast: an award-winning social justice podcast about the pop culture we love and how it inspires us to build a safer, more just world for everyone. Hosts Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok are former latchkey kids who grew up to become survivor activists and pop culture besties. Tune in for elevated unscripted commentary that no…

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Lingo Plinko! Box Breathing 6:05

1y ago6:05

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Lingo Plinko is a minisode of The Popaganda Podcast with Shannon Perez Darby and Tashmica Torok. On Monday, we dropped a bonus episode about the HBO original documentary, Great Photo, Lovely Life that came with a trigger warning and an encouragement to listen with care. So instead of breaking down our working definitions of the transformative justi…

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Great Photo, Lovely Life 23:26

1y ago23:26

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CW/TW: child sexual abuse. In anticipation of the Popaganda season 2 launch on April 22nd, cohosts Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok reconnect to discuss the original HBO documentary, Great Photo, Lovely Life. This poignant film follows Photojournalist Amanda Mustard as she investigates her ‘touchy-feely grandpa’ and his role in decades of ser…

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Pop Culture Chisme 55:39

1y ago55:39

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Popaganda Season 2 launches on April 22nd but Shannon and Tashmica can’t wait that long to talk pop culture chisme and transformative justice. In this bonus episode, we talk about cults, communes, and the surveillance state through the experiences of the recently released but not quite free Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson,…

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DNA Papers #13 - James Watson, Francis Crick, and the DNA Double Helix × Status message 1:02:20

1y ago1:02:20

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Rounding out the story begun in the previous installment, episode 13 of the DNA Papers centers on the publications in which the double helical structure for DNA was proposed, detailed, and its various implications speculated upon. It features four papers, all by Watson and Crick from Cambridge,. Together these papers not only proposed that DNA’s th…

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Donald L. Opitz - Daughters of Ceres 18:21

1y ago18:21

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Don's book project, "Daughters of Ceres: The Scientific Advancement of Women in Horticulture, 1870–1920" examines the confluence of two 19th century movements—one dedicated to the promotion of scientific agriculture, another to the advancement of women's education in science. These movements fueled international efforts to elevate women's position …

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Rena Selya — Salvador Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America 24:29

1y ago24:29

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In this episode, we speak with Rena Selya, the archivist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and author of Salvador Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America.Blacklisted from federal funding review panels but awarded a Nobel Prize for his research on bacteriophage, biologist Salvador Luria (1912–1991) was as much an activist as a scientist. In t…

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DNA Papers #12: Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, and the double helix model for DNA structure 1:19:18

1y ago1:19:18

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Episode 12 of the DNA Papers, is the first of a two-parter, which centers on papers published about the now iconic double helix structure of the DNA molecule. This episode features three publications, all published in the journal Nature, which represent the work of scientists working at King’s College London, whose X-ray crystallographic work provi…

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Vandersommers - Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive 25:03

1+ y ago25:03

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In this episode of Perspectives, we speak with Daniel Vandersommers, author of Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive. In this book, Vandersommers shows how zoo animals always ran away from the zoo. This is meant literally—animals escaped frequently—but even more so, figuratively. Living, breathing, historical zoo…

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Christopher Willoughby — Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools 45:32

1+ y ago45:32

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In this episode of Perspectives we speak with Christopher Willoughby, author of Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools. Masters of Health examines how the founders of U.S. medical schools promoted an understanding of race influenced by the theory of polygenesis—that each race was created separately and as different sp…

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DNA Papers #11: Hershey, Chase, and DNA as the material of heredity 1:07:30

1+ y ago1:07:30

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In episode 11 of The DNA Papers we revisit a paper describing a famous experiment performed by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase which combined the atomic-age tools of radioisotopes with an ordinary kitchen blender to show that DNA alone, and not protein, was the carrier of hereditary information: Hershey, Alfred D., and Martha Chase. “Independent Fu…

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IsisCB on Pandemics - The Social and Political Dimensions of Pandemic Diseases 1:05:12

1+ y ago1:05:12

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Following in the wake of the Isis CB special issue on pandemics, this episode of the companion podcast takes a deeper look at the social and political contexts of pandemics, and also considers the impact of doing such a history during times of disease crises. Contributors Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Keith Wailoo and Emily Hamilton share their insights…

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DNA Papers #10: Harriet Ephrussi-Taylor and Rollin Hotchkiss 56:41

1+ y ago56:41

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The tenth episode of the DNA papers podcast brings to light some of the lesser discussed papers in the history of DNA that were instrumental in confirming its role in effecting genetic transformation. Both papers discussed in this episode were first presented at the 1951 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology; the first by a geneticis…

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Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology 43:46

1+ y ago43:46

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In this episode of Perspectives, we speak with Christopher Heaney, author of Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology. Bringing together the history of science, race, and museums' possession of Indigenous remains, from the sixteenth century to the twentieth, Empires of the Dead illuminates how South Amer…

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DNA Papers #2: Albrecht Kossel 49:19

1+ y ago49:19

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