The Episodic Table of Elements

Mar 03 2025 99 ep. 21 mins 3k

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The history class visits the chemistry lab to explore wild tales of scientific adventure that stretch back to the beginning of time itself.

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94. Plutonium: Weapons-Grade

Element 94 causes a bit of a crisis for our collections.

93. Neptunium: Great Expectations

Aug 22 2024 67 mins

To the person who said, "the episodes are never too long," I'm terribly sorry.

The Episodic Table Of Elements Holiday Special

Dec 20 2023 26 mins

♪ O chemistry, o chemistry, the study of all matter ♫

92. Uranium: Two Untold Tales (Live At Harvard)

May 29 2023 45 mins

America's worst radioactive accident isn't Three Mile Island, and the Nazi nuclear physicist wasn't assassinated by the famous baseball player.

91. Protactinium: Decolonize Science

Oct 19 2022 21 mins

Sometimes we need a quiet moment in order to step back and look at the bigger picture.

90. Thorium: Bright Lights, Big City

Feb 22 2022 18 mins

Sure, thorium could provide practically limitless clean energy, but then we couldn't build weapons of mass destruction.

89. Actinium: The Windup… And The Pitchblende

Nov 08 2021 15 mins

We all know that radioactive rocks glow in the dark, except they actually don't, except for when they actually do.

88. Radium: Several Sordid Affairs

Oct 18 2021 33 mins

Out of all the characters who encounter radium in this episode, the only one to emerge unscathed is the guy who comes face-to-face with Satan.

87. Francium: Nothing To Do With Cats

Sep 13 2021 15 mins

You don't have to have a degree to do science, but it helps.

86. Radon: It’s Coming From Inside The House

Aug 23 2021 21 mins

You know something's amiss when you set off the radiation alarms while walking in to the nuclear power plant.