Podcast Episodes featuring Deborah Blum

16 Deborah Blum - The Science of Poisoning

Inquiring Minds - January 10, 2014 03:05 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 822 ratings
As a writer, Deborah Blum says she has a "love of evil chemistry." It seems that audiences do too: Her latest book, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, was not only a bestseller, but was just turned into a film by PBS. The book tells the story...

Deborah Blum - Murder and Chemistry in Jazz Age New York

Point of Inquiry - April 23, 2010 14:11 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 758 ratings
For many of us, chemistry is something we remember with groans from high school. Periodic Table of the Elements—what a pain to memorize, and what was the point, anyway? So how do you take a subject like chemistry and make it exciting, intriguing, and compelling? With her new book The Poison...