Revisionist History podcast

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Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time.

  1. 10/03/2022

    Let's Talk Turkey!

    Turkey scientist Rich Buchholz of the University of Mississippi talks about the turkey on your plate and his own turkey research

    9 min

  2. 10/03/2022

    Roman Sanitation Didn't Stop Roaming Parasites

    Cambridge's Piers Mitchell, author of the 2015 book Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations, talks about the counterintuitive findings in his recent paper in the journal Parasitology titled "Human parasites in the Roman World: health consequences of conquering an empire."

    8 min

  3. 10/03/2022

    Teaching Machines to Learn on Their Own

    talks with Scientific American tech editor Larry Greenemeier about the revolution underway in machine learning, in which the machine eventually programs itself

    6 min

  4. 10/03/2022

    Nobel Prize Explainer: Autophagy

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for his discoveries concerning autophagy. Following the announcement, journalist Lotta Fredholm spoke to Juleen Zierath, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, about the research.

    9 min

  5. 10/03/2022

    Thule and the Apes of Earth

    As the New Horizons mission approached Ultima Thule, Rowan University paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara put our close-up study of the Kuiper Belt object into a deep-time perspective.

    9 min

  6. 10/03/2022

    Hope Lies in Dreams,' a New Podcast from Nature Biotechnology

    This is a story of desperation, anger, poverty—and triumph over long odds to crack the code of a degenerative disease that had been stealing the lives of children since it was first discovered more than a century ago.

    5 min

  7. 10/03/2022

    Love History? Listen to This Podcast

    In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it.

    5 min

  8. 10/03/2022

    American after Sandy

    American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina brings us up to date on the state of our New York City-based operation after Sandy. Recorded October 31 at 2:30 P.M Eastern time

    7 min
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Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time.

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