Distillations podcast

For decades, nearly all race science was funded by one man. His goal? To ensure the intellectual continuity of a dubious field.

When yellow fever struck the city in 1793, faulty race logic almost destroyed it.

The surprising scientific and religious origins of the myth of race.

Crushing, smashing, and grinding for the sake of greener science.

Vox’s ‘Unexplainable’ podcast interviews ‘Distillations’ about how Alzheimer’s research has stubbornly focused on a single theory for decades.

‘Distillations’ talks to four science fantasy experts about the Deborah Harkness book series.

Since humans have been living—and inevitably dying—we’ve also been trying to figure out how not to die. Or at least how to keep the party going a little longer.

This bonus episode explores how a grade school history teacher from Cincinnati uses video games in the classroom.

Are historical video games an important tool for learning or do they corrupt our collective understanding of the past?

The ‘Lady Science’ magazine editors talk about their new book ‘Forces of Nature: The Women Who Changed Science.’

Our approach to fighting wildfires is a fantasy—and it’s making them even more catastrophic.

The ‘Ghostland’ author talks about the relationship between technology and the paranormal and how the ghost stories we tell reveal a lot about society.

Though science and investigations of the paranormal might seem incompatible, they were intertwined for a long time.

When an invisible threat plagued rural 19th-century New England, the evidence pointed to the supernatural.

The Moderna CEO reflects on the incredibly fast development of the COVID-19 vaccine.

An interview with Wendy Zukerman, host of Science Vs podcast.

“I just feel broken.”

Stories from the pandemic’s essential workers.