Imagine buying mascara that makes you go blind, or picking up hair removal cream that causes your teeth to fall out. Before 1938 products like these were all over the place. Legally. The American Chamber of Horrors was a traveling exhibit, created by the FDA, that exposed these atrocities, and it helped push forward a law that changed consumer protection in the United States forever.  Want to see some of the products in the American Chamber of Horrors? <a href= "https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/histories-product-regulation/american-chamber-horrors"> https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/histories-product-regulation/american-chamber-horrors</a>

What If Half of Earth's Soil Disappeared? | Orbitals 307

From antibiotic resistance to Roaring Twenties poisonings to body farms, you can find chemistry—and a good story—anywhere. Every month writer and host, Sam Jones, PhD, takes on a chemistry tale you didn't know you needed to know.