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The Curse of Knowing Too Much

The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

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The Fear of Spies

Stuart Stouttenberg worked for the government agency in charge of the Manhattan Project. His job involved managing the agency's secret atomic patents. Friends recall him starting to say strange things, like claiming that papers would go missing for his desk one day and mysteriously reappear the next. Fear of spies began to eat away at Stouttenberg's brain.

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