Sam Kean

Author and Correspondent for Science magazine

Sam Kean appears in the following:

Double-Blasted

Friday, June 13, 2025

One man experiences the ultimate trauma—twice. Surprisingly, it brings us a story of generational repair.

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Finding Emilie

Friday, March 22, 2024

This is a segment we first aired back in 2011. In it, we hear a story of a very different kind of lost and found. Alan Lundgard, a college art student, fell in love with a fellow art ...

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HEAVY METAL

Friday, September 24, 2021

What happens when you’re the only one who can see something?
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Loop the Loop

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

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Lincoln Beachey thought he had a dream, a dream to become the most daring, skilled, and famous pilot the world would ever forget.

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Nukes: The Broadcast

Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Is there is anyone that can say “No” if the president orders a nuclear strike?

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Leaving Your Lamarck

Monday, November 19, 2012

Jad starts us off with some wishful parental thinking.

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Inheritance

Monday, November 19, 2012

Stories of nature and nurture slamming into each other and shaping our biological blueprints.

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Double Blasted

Monday, July 16, 2012

On the morning of August 6, 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a work trip.
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The Bad Show

Monday, January 09, 2012

We wrestle with the dark side of human nature, and ask whether it's something we can ever really understand, or fully escape.

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How do you solve a problem like Fritz Haber?

Monday, January 09, 2012

How do you square the idea of a bad person who does great good?

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Loop the Loop

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Lincoln Beachey is one of the most famous men you’ve never heard of. 
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