Macabre Part 2: How Shrunken Heads Were Made

Macabre Part 2: How Shrunken Heads Were Made

In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we begin by discussing a random quick fact involving the parents of Ferris Bueller on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. We then move on to discussing the show’s sponsor, Dashlane, which is a great free password management service. You can also get a free month of their premium version and then 10% off thereafter by using the coupon code “brainfood”. Either way, please do go check them out using this link. Thanks! Next we move into the main content for today’s episode which is discussing how exactly people used to get human heads to shrink and why they did this in the first place. Moving on from that, we look at the fascinating saga of famed philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s head and body. Finally we move into some feedback and then an interesting Star Trek Fact related to skeletons. And for those interested: Picture of Jeremy Bentham’s Head Our mentioned video on the history of passwords: Who Invented Passwords and the Guy That Made Them Suck A sampling of Marina Sirtis talking at various conventions: Costume Story On Deanna Troi’s Accent The Riker Maneuver Riker and Picard Badass Walk Loop On another note, if you could do us a huge favor and rate and review this show in whatever podcasting platform you’re using (including hopefully giving us some feedback related to the new format), we would be extremely grateful. Thanks! (You can also discuss this episode and view references on The BrainFood Show forum here.) Don’t miss future episodes of this podcast, subscribe here: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play Music | Stitcher | RSS/XML You can also find more episodes by going here: The BrainFood Show The post Macabre Part 2: How Shrunken Heads Were Made appeared first on Today I Found Out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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