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PHILADELPHIA, PA—17 December 2007—The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) has just launched a new weekly podcast. Distillations: Extracts from the Past, Present, and Future of Chemistry is a weekly show offering entertaining reports on subjects ranging from alchemy to the contents of your kitchen cupboard to the chemistry of space exploration. It makes the wonders of chemistry available to listeners around the world.
Join host Robert D. Hicks and guests every Friday for the latest episode of Distillations. A former naval officer and most recently director of the Roy Eddleman Institute for Interpretation and Education at CHF, Hicks is also an expert in the history of navigation and a talented reenactor. Recorded in Philadelphia and produced in San Francisco, Distillations has a radio-quality sound that you can listen to wherever your iPod takes you.
The premier episode of Distillations, "Communicating Chemistry," is now online. Listen as Paul Smith, a Michael Faraday reenactor from Purdue University, explains how public chemistry lectures enchanted Londoners in the early decades of the nineteenth century. In this episode's installation of "The Element of the Week," a recurring segment, you'll hear how phlogiston was discovered and subsequently discarded in favor of the element we now call oxygen.
Each show lasts 6 to 10 minutes. Distillations is available free of charge through the iTunes store and at its Web site http://distillations.chemheritage.org.
Subscribe or tune in each Friday to hear our first five episodes:
- Communicating Chemistry
- Cleaning Up
- Happy Holidays from CHF
- Measurement
- The Body Chemical
Distillations is a presentation of the Chemical Heritage Foundation and is made possible by the generous support of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation.
About the Chemical Heritage Foundation
The Chemical Heritage Foundation serves the community of the chemical and molecular sciences, and the wider public, by treasuring the past, educating the present, and inspiring the future. CHF maintains a world-class collection of materials that document the history and heritage of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries; encourages research in its collections; and carries out a program of outreach and interpretation in order to advance an understanding of the role of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries in shaping society.
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