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Sam Kean's latest book, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science, dropped ea...

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A lot has happened in the last year (understatement of the millennium), so we wanted to bring our listeners something a bit sillier than usual. In th...

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