Season 1

How Moldy Bread Can Change Your Brain
How an experimental failure led to the accidental discovery of LSD.
How Moldy Bread Can Change Your Brain

How a Kitchen Mishap Changed Science Forever
How an accidental seaweed cooking tip went from the kitchen to the laboratory…and then everywhere.
How a Kitchen Mishap Changed Science Forever

Allergies: Why Does Your Body Hate You?
Did you know that a completely failed experiment helped us to understand our allergies?
Allergies: Why Does Your Body Hate You?

Invasion of the Toxic Toads: Nature's Most Successful Failure
How do these toads keep failing upward, and what can we do about it?
Invasion of the Toxic Toads: Nature's Most Successful Failure

How To Accidentally Save the World (with Fungus)
How did a famous lab accident end up saving more than half a billion lives…and is it true?
How To Accidentally Save the World (with Fungus)

How Pigeon Poop Helped Unlock the Universe’s Secrets
Is it bird poop? Is it a bomb? Nope. It’s the Big Bang! A hiss heard only by accident.
How Pigeon Poop Helped Unlock the Universe’s Secrets

How 1800s Parties Discovered Anesthesia
The only reason we have general anesthesia today is because of a Victorian party drug.
How 1800s Parties Discovered Anesthesia

How To Accidentally Invent A Color
The substance that colors most of our modern world was invented…by accident.
How To Accidentally Invent A Color
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