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Latest episodes

• The Impossible Picture

  December 9, 2021 · 1 hr 4 min

  Time travel? Aliens? Seeing the invisible? This special episode’s tale from science history has them all as Maren takes Greg down the long and winding road science took to understand what is perhaps the most perplexing object in the…

• The Helplessly Human Doctor

  April 30, 2021 · 1 hr 7 min

  The man who changed our understanding of disorders of the brain was a man who couldn't recognize faces himself. He was a man who saw music as a therapeutic tool, who broke all the existing rules for how to talk to and about patients, and…

• The Lifesaving Bean

  February 18, 2021 · 60 min

  One bean has changed the world in unexpected ways, and the man behind it was even more extraordinary. This is the story of a man whose genius shone against all odds, how his discoveries shaped much of our modern world, and the science that…

• The Half-Walnut of Pus

  February 11, 2021 · 1 hr 1 min

  Vaccines. They're a big topic of conversation right now. But who discovered them? Who gave the first one? And what was the rather effective method around for hundreds of years before them?? Greg tells Maren a (rather gross) story of pus…

• The Language of the Universe

  February 4, 2021 · 51 min

  The universe speaks in a common language...the mathematics of change. Maren wasn't so sure about math, but after this episode she's a truly changed person. Isaac Newton DID stand on the shoulders of giants to translate the universe...but…

• The Donald Trump Of Science

  January 28, 2021 · 53 min

  A story in three parts: The discovery of a revolutionary biotechnology that’s used every day by countless scientists. How that works. And the dangerous ideas (& behaviour) of the man who won a Nobel Prize for its invention. Greg tells…

• The Secret Doctor

  January 21, 2021 · 1 hr 5 min

  This doctor was a public health pioneer, a visionary in the medical treatments of his day, and a relatively radical voice against the entrenched establishment...but do we only remember him because of this one secret? Maren tells Greg about…

• The Forgotten Whiskey Chemist

  January 14, 2021 · 59 min

  Greg tells Maren about a chemist who develops hit product after hit product, from revolutionising whisky production to developing ‘the first wonder drug'… a man who was once the most famous Japanese person in America but was soon…