Distillations

Before pharmaceuticals existed, all medicines had to come from natural sources—like plants. On this week’s show, we focus on such remedies.

We continue to bring you some of our favorite segments from past Distillations episodes this week: Senescence, Richard Holmes, and Boy Rocketeer.

This month Distillations takes a step back to bring you some of our favorite segments from past episodes: Glenn Seaborg, the Three Sisters, and Living with Illness.

Distillations marks our 100th episode this week! To celebrate, we revisit segments from some of our past shows and bring you new developments.

CHF’s award-winning science podcast hits a milestone.

Halfway through July, we are just about in the middle of summer. So we thought it would be appropriate to talk about meat and barbecuing in this week’s episode of Distillations.

As atmospheric carbon dioxide increases, does the world have to get hotter? Controlling the earth’s weather and climate is this week’s topic.

If you could live forever, would you? Though most believe this to be a hypothetical question, there are some scientific processes that impart eternal life, or something like that, to actual creatures on earth.

Here in Philly, where most of the Distillations crew resides, we are celebrating Philly Beer Week.

Innovation can be messy work, and sometimes outright disastrous. This week on Distillations we’re looking at some of the 20th century’s most infamous scientific missteps.