Welcome to Distillations!

Distillations is an award-winning science podcast that brings you extracts from the past, present, and future of chemistry. Join host Meir Rinde for a new episode every other Friday with interviews, monologues, reviews, features, and more, to gain historical perspective on current scientific issues. On our Web site you can find additional information about each show as well as our archived podcasts.

Who We Are

Meir Rinde 
Host Meir Rinde joined the Distillations crew in summer 2008. He is a reporter at the Trenton Times and has worked at several newspapers as well as Bloomberg Radio and KALX in Berkeley, California.

Mia Lobel
Senior producer Mia Lobel is a founding producer of B-Side Radio, a monthly alt.NPR podcast. She has also worked on many other audio projects, including Antenna Audio, KQED Radio News, and Youth Radio. Mia has a master’s in journalism and a B.A. in anthropology.

Victoria M. Indivero
Victoria Indivero is associate producer of Distillations and is also the production editor of Chemical Heritage magazine. She has a B.A. in communications and studied biology and history as well. Tori is currently working toward her master’s in journalism.

Our Look 

The Distillations banner and logo are created from images found in The Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, housed at CHF. Our banner has images from three books: Antoine Laurnet Lavoisier’s Traité élémentaire de chimie; Otto von Guericke’s Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de vacuo spatio primùm; and Nicaise Le Fèvre’s A compleat body of chymistry. The logo image is created from Leonhard Thurneisser zum Thurn’s Pison.

Our Sponsors

Distillations is a presentation of the Chemical Heritage Foundation.