2025-10-29
1 小时 14 分钟Oh, hey, it's the moldy pumpkin you carved a little too early.
Allie Ward, let's enjoy some poisons.
I love this guest.
I first met her at a book reading over 10 years ago,
and I have always enjoyed so much her historical science writing.
She studied chemistry, but she majored in journalism,
more on that in a bit, and got a master's degree in environmental journalism,
went on to write off whole stack of books like Monkey Wars and Ghost Hunters,
William James, and the Search for Scientific Proof.
of life after death, and of course, the beloved The Poisoner's Handbook,
Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age, New York.
And she also authored the recent tactical guide to science journalism and is writing a new book
as we spoke.
And how good is she?
She's a Pulitzer Prize winner.
She will tell us all about the history of toxicology and the poisons of then and now.
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