Science History Podcasts

Undiscovered

55 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 753 ratings
A podcast about the left turns, missteps, and lucky breaks that make science happen.

Damn Interesting

126 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 665 ratings
The audio side of DamnInteresting.com: Legitimately intriguing true stories from history, science, and psychology. Audiobook-like narration with sound effects and music.

SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human

67 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 193 ratings
What makes you … you? And who tells what stories and why? In the fifth season of the SAPIENS podcast, listeners will hear a range of human stories: from the origins of the chili pepper to h...

The History of Being Human

113 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 101 ratings
History, anatomy and physiology, philosophy, psychology, anthropology. The podcast that attempts to resurrect sense and meaning from the dust of a billion factoids.

Strange Year: A Strange History Podcast

130 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
Jason Horton revisits a different year along with the strange history and the cultural happenings during that year. Get your weird history fix with Strange Year. Instagram For advertising opportu...

Distillations | Science History Institute

341 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
Each episode of Distillations podcast takes a deep-dive into a moment of science-related history in order to shed light on the present.

Haunted Talks

189 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
Haunted Talks is the official podcast of The Haunted Walk. We offer ghost tours and paranormal adventures in Kingston, Ottawa, and Toronto, Ontario. As well as online virtual experiences to everyon...

Ron's Amazing Stories

337 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
Ron's Amazing stories is a weekly podcast which presents truly amazing tales. These will range from dramatic readings to old time radio. We also have interviews with authors, radio personalities an...

Shared History

128 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 57 ratings
A history and comedy podcast about the overlooked and underrepresented people and events from ancient to modern history. Join comedians Cass and Natalie for an educational, entertaining and someti...

Worst Foot Forward

398 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
An encyclopaedia of heroic failure Join Ben Van der Velde, Barry McStay and their guests as they brandish their wooden spoons of destiny and celebrate the losers, heroic failures and spectacular m...

With Good Reason

532 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Each week on With Good Reason we explore a world of ideas with leading scholars in literature, history, science, philosophy, and the arts. With Good Reason is created by Virginia Humanities and th...

Going Viral - The Podcast

33 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
The science & history podcast all about PANDEMICS. Series 1: Join the 'disease detectives' Mark Honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley as they investigate the most devastating pandemic of all time: the 19...

Time Talks: History, Politics, Music, and Art

65 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
Chris Time Steele is the creator of Time Talks: History, Politics, Music, and Art. Chris is a teacher, journalist, has co-authored articles with Noam Chomsky and is also a hip-hop artist who has w...

Ex Urbe Ad Astra

20 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Historian and novelist Ada Palmer and author and vocateur reader Jo Walton interview other fiction authors, historians, scientists, editors, and friends, interspersed with bonus episodes where they...

Strange Stories UK

204 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
true crime, mysteries, strange stories, stories,paranormal, UK, I try to be factual and not give too many opinions. Podcasts are 'low fi' with out any editing. 

Cigar Nerds Podcast

202 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
Cigar Nerds Podcast

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast

77 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is hosted by historians of economic thought Jennifer Jhun, François Allisson, and Çınla Akdere. Each month, the hosts discuss themes related to economics, its history...

Human Being Human Podcast

75 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
"Human Being Human" is a podcast that digs into the gripping history of humankind, as told through personal stories, scholastic explorations, and sonic landscapes. Created and narrated by Karringto...

Let's Learn About...

220 episodes - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Let’s Learn About… is a fun, educational, general knowledge podcast that teaches you things you probably didn't need to know, but we're going to teach them to you anyway! Each episode, we’ll learn...

Twisted States

38 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Twisted States where we take a deep look, state by state, at some of America's most nefarious killers, intriguing legends, and elusive cryptids. Get to know your host Ragen @disruptivegirl on Inst...

Science Diction

86 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago
What does the word “meme” have to do with evolutionary biology? And why do we call it “Spanish flu” when it was never Spanish? Science Diction is a podcast about words—and the science stories withi...

Everything with Everett

72 episodes - Latest episode: 28 days ago
What's this podcast about? EVERYTHING! Join Everett McConnaughey for discussions and analysis on topics that help us understand each other and build a better society. 

The Launch Pad Space Podcast

40 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago
Come along as the former aerospace journalist Paul Ring discusses space exploration in history and science fiction with some of the best and brightest in the business.

Blasphemy

22 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago
Humans have shown themselves capable of believing almost anything. The amount of information available to us hasn't seemed to quell our insatiable need to create and believe alternate realties, con...