9: Beaver Reintroductions, Solving Mazes, and ASMR

9: Beaver Reintroductions, Solving Mazes, and ASMR

What are the benefits of reintroducing a species after 400 years? Why do we make rats solve mazes, and can slime molds solve mazes? What is ASMR, and how did it become such a thing?

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We also learn about: Beavery introductions, vanilla flavor usually isn’t castorium, beavers support everyone in the wetlands, Tom’s gonna make a joke, The Scottish Beaver Trial, impatient beavers, international legal beaver issues, failed reintroductions are beautiful, auto sound mmm rad, autonomus sensory meridian response, her royal majesty’s asmr, and Ella’s favorite ASMR videos.

Sources:

Beavers and Castoreum

RSPB on Beaver Reintroductions

Scottish Wildlife Trust Report on Beavers in Knapdale

Scottish Wild Land Group on the Tay Beavers

Legal Battle over Beavers

Oranguta Reintroductions

Short-haired Bumblebee Reintroductions

Berger-Tal on Openness about Failed Reintroductions

Conservation Translocations: a Review of Common Difficulties and Promising Directions

Willard Small's First Rat Maze Study

Slime Mold Maze Study

Maze Solving Using Fatty Acid Chemistry

Tolman's Better Mazes

Dashiell Maze Criticism

Morris Water Maze

Advanced Morris Water Maze Study

Wire Interview with Mycologist Anne Pringle

Crinkle Crinkle Little Shirt

History of ASMR

The First Dedicated Whispering Channel

BBC Interview with Whispers Red

Cardi B ASMR

ASMR to Help you Sleep Beating you Until your Unconscious

1300s AD ASMR - Nun Takes Care of You in Bed (You Have the Plague)

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