The Episodic Table of Elements

T. R. Appleton
  • 4.9 (76)
  • CHEMISTRY

A podcast about the fascinating true stories behind each element on the periodic table.

  1. 2025-09-27

    Americium: Mundus Novus

    Many episodes have incorporated geology, but this one is more about geography. (And amateur nuclear science.)

    37 min

  2. 2025-03-03

    Plutonium: Weapons-Grade

    Element 94 causes a bit of a crisis for our collections.

  3. 2024-08-22

    Neptunium: Great Expectations

    To the person who said, "the episodes are never too long," I'm terribly sorry.

    1h 8m

  4. 2023-12-20

    The Episodic Table Of Elements Holiday Special

    Time for the most traditional holiday celebration: A science lesson.

    27 min

  5. 2023-05-29

    Uranium: Two Untold Tales (Live At Harvard)

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

    45 min

  6. 2022-10-19

    Protactinium: Decolonize Science

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

    22 min

  7. 2022-02-22

    Thorium: Bright Lights, Big City

    Sure, thorium could provide practically limitless clean energy, but then we couldn't build weapons of mass destruction.

    19 min

  8. 2021-11-08

    Actinium: The Windup... And The Pitchblende

    We all know that radioactive rocks glow in the dark, except they actually don't, except for when they actually do.

    16 min
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