Content warning: This episode contains some details about the 9/11 attacks and victims’ remains.
Twenty-three years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, forensic scientists are still working to identify victims from the World Trade Center site. Host Rachel Feltman speaks with Kathleen Corrado, forensics executive director at Syracuse University’s College of Ar ... Show More
Jul 2016
The Failings of Forensic Science, Part I
<p>What if bad science put you in prison for a crime you didn't commit? How many guilty offenders are still out there because of pseudoscience, fraud or disorganized laboratories? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Joe and Christian review the use of forensic science in ... Show More
56m 47s
Sep 2021
Twenty years after 9/11, what have we learned about collective trauma? With Roxane Cohen Silver, PhD
This week marks 20 years since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Researchers call this kind of shared disaster a “collective trauma.” Roxane Cohen Silver, PhD, of the University of California Irvine, who studies collective traum ... Show More
38m 26s
Nov 2024
How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer
It’s the 1990s at a medical center in California, and patients are dying. At first, this doesn’t seem strange — it’s a hospital, and deaths happen. But then rumors start to circulate about a particular health care worker: Difficult or needy patients in his care are ending up dead ... Show More
49m 13s