Story Problem
True stories that make math and science clear. Story Problem is for curious adults, parents helping with schoolwork, and anyone ready to understand the subjects they may have missed the first time around. No notes. No prerequisites. Just listen.
Episodes
2 episodes
The Right Dose: The Math Between Medicine and Poison
Some numbers decide whether a medicine heals you or kills you. This is the story of one of them.In the 1780s, an English doctor named William Withering learned that a common wildflower — the purple foxglove — could pull a dying patient b...
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The Fraction Inside Your Heart
More than 400 years ago, physician William Harvey faced a problem: the accepted explanation of blood flow simply did not add up. By estimating how much blood the heart moved with every beat—and multiplying it by the number of beats in a minute—...
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