Inside the Breakthrough - How Science Comes to Life
SciMar with Dan Riskin
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S3 Give it All Away (Best of for 2025)
The discovery of insulin and building of the first Jeep. Two stories to explain why innovation and capitalism have a complicated relationship. Voted best episode from season 1.Originally published…
S3 Seeing it Firsthand (Best of for 2025)
The story of Antarctic Explorer Roald Amundsen, and a giant squid. What do they have in common? Listen to find out. Reprised from season 1.Originally published May 31st, 2021. Learn more about SciMar…
S3 Money Matters (Best of for 2025)
The Nazi scientist that powered NASA’s moonshot and the Roman emperor who built the Colosseum have more in common than you think. To find the connection, follow the money. Our most controversial…
S3 Ooops! That’s a Big Mistake (Best of for 2025)
A man gets a lobotomy to cure his epilepsy, and the government tries to rid India of cobras. Neither of those efforts go as planned. Dan Riskin’s favourite episode from season 2Originally published…
S3 Clinical Trials Gone Bad (Best of for 2025)
Scurvy was a bigger threat to the Royal Navy than the French were, meanwhile the biggest threat to six men in a British hospital was their medicine! The connection explains how clinical trials are…
S3 What is Snake Oil? (Best of for 2025)
What is really in ‘snake oil’ and why did an innocent man go to prison for murder. What’s the connection? Listen to find out. This is one of our favourite episodes from season 1.Originally published…
S2E10 Spreading the News
Science communication has impacted our lives more than we ever thought it would. Getting complicated scientific and medical information out to a large number of people is crucial to our public…
S2E9 Guinea Pigs
Let’s talk about the use of animals in medical research. It’s not a subject that people are very comfortable discussing, but we are going to do it anyway.We will start with an incredible story of a…
S2E8 Follow the Money
The relationship between researchers and funders is complicated.Some people think that researchers should be left to their own direction and that all financial support should be ‘no-strings…
S2E7 Old Meets New
The Amish community in Pennsylvania is heavily impacted by genetic diseases. You might think that their resistance to modern technology would make it difficult to treat these conditions. But actually…
S2E6 Too Much or Too Little?
We often complain about having too little of something: Too little time, too little money. But today in first world countries a lot of our problems come from having too much of something: Too much…
S2E5 Unintended Consequences
We’ve all heard the saying about “the best laid plans….” but there is a caveat to that. Not all unexpected consequences are bad. Sometimes something really amazing occurs unexpectedly.This episode…
S2E4 Double Blind
Join us for a wild ride through Vienna and Paris. We will hang out with Mozart, Marie Antoinette, and the incredible Dr Mesmer. We will drink cocktails and stay up way too late. All in an effort to…
S2E3 Tools for Testing
Sometimes great discoveries have to wait for the creation of the perfect tool.What is the best screw ever invented? If you said the Phillips, you are wrong. The Phillips is the most popular screw…
S2E2 The Trouble With Trials
Ten years ago, in a hospital in London England a drug company conducted a clinical trial. That trial went horribly wrong. The lessons learned from that event have informed every pharmaceutical trial…
S2E1 What's in a Name?
Kick back and enjoy a cold Corona beer as we tell stories about the importance of names. From cameras to resumes to hormones, names matter.George Eastman decided to name his company Kodak after…
S2 Introducing Season 2
Dan Riskin invites you to listen to season 2 of Inside the Breakthrough - How Science Comes to Life. This innovative series combines stories of the distant past with modern updates to get a better…
S2 Bonus Episode – How We Got Here
SciMar does more than produce a podcast. They are a real medical research company doing really amazing work in the field of type 2 diabetes. This episode tells the story of how they got here. ‘Here’…
S1E10 Seeing It With Your Own Eyes
We made it! This is the final episode in season one… and it is a huge day for the medical research group SciMar. Some scientific discoveries are exciting because they reveal something that was…
S1E9 Going Back to Square One
Starting a story at the beginning makes sense… but what if there is a mistake in that first sentence? Does it invalidate the rest of the story? What if your experiment is based on an assumption that…
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Inside the Breakthrough - How Science Comes to Life has published 28 episodes since January 2021, covering topics in Documentary, History.
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