Don't miss an episode of Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast by Sam Kean. His amazing case could also shed light on the mysteries of human consciousness...For more on Sam's New York Times-bestselling books, see http://samkean.comHelp keep this podcast going by becoming a patron for as little as $2 a month, at https://www.patreon.com/disappearingspoon See bonus material and hear bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/disappearingspoon Follow Sam on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sam_kean ... on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SamKeanBooks ... or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/historyschmistory/Above all, thanks for listening! Peace and gratitude. I have been a fan of his books since the Disappearing Spoon. A story about the innocent-seeming Teflon for this week’s 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs...For more on Sam's New York Times-bestselling books, see http://samkean.comHelp keep this podcast going by becoming a patron for as little as $2 a month, at https://www.patreon.com/disappearingspoon See bonus material and hear bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/disappearingspoon Follow Sam on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sam_kean ... on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SamKeanBooks ... or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/historyschmistory/Above all, thanks for listening! But the stories do take a lot of time to produce. How the Central Intelligence Agency’s recklessly outrageous Operation Midnight Climax revealed some surprising psychological insights into sex, drugs, and human nature...For more on Sam's New York Times-bestselling books, see http://samkean.comHelp keep this podcast going by becoming a patron for as little as $2 a month, at https://www.patreon.com/disappearingspoon See bonus material and hear bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/disappearingspoon Follow Sam on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sam_kean ... on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SamKeanBooks ... or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/historyschmistory/Above all, thanks for listening! And the fact is, every hour spent on these stories is an hour not doing something else—something that pays better but is kind of dull. How two Russian scientists defied death and imprisonment to run a top-secret genetics experiment, and what it revealed about how dogs, babies, and stuffed animals manipulate our minds...For more on Sam's New York Times-bestselling books, see http://samkean.comHelp keep this podcast going by becoming a patron for as little as $2 a month, at https://www.patreon.com/disappearingspoon See bonus material and hear bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/disappearingspoon Follow Sam on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sam_kean ... on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SamKeanBooks ... or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/historyschmistory/Above all, thanks for listening! You’re probably here because you love the stories—about science, about history, about humankind in all its glory and all its folly. This podcast is very interesting, short and fun! Hours of research go into every one, along with all the writing and recording and sound production. https://feed.podbean.com/disappearingspoon/feed.xml. That’s why I’m asking for a bit of help, a modest donation to keep these stories coming and to keep them alive. But they are short stories so are nice filler when needing to kill a few minutes. The whole process is essential to really make the stories sing. Disappearing Spoon podcast.