Why Tickling Makes Us Laugh: Knismesis, Gargalesis and the Combat Theory
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Tickling is two different things. In 1897 psychologists G. Stanley Hall and Arthur Allen separat...
3 Okt 23min
Incorruptible Saints: Bernadette's Wax Mask and Relics Seized by Bolsheviks
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition, incorruptibility is the belief that divine intervent...
3 Okt 22min
Tetrachromacy: Subject cDa29, Mosaic Retinas and the Fourth Color Cone
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Most people see color through three cone types tuned to short, medium and long wavelengths, but ...
3 Okt 24min
Sleep Paralysis Demons: Newfoundland's Old Hag Board and Egypt's Jinn
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Up to half of all people will wake at least once unable to move, with crushing pressure on the c...
3 Okt 23min
REM Sleep Atonia: Aserinsky's 1953 Eye Study and the Flower Pot Rats
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1953 Nathaniel Kleitman and Eugene Aserinsky noticed sleepers' eyes darting beneath closed li...
3 Okt 22min
Paris Syndrome: Hiroaki Ota's Patients, Rousseau's Shock and Fake Hotlines
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Paris syndrome is a rare, acute form of culture shock documented mainly among Japanese visitors ...
3 Okt 25min
Phantom Limbs: Ramachandran's Cotton Swab, the Mirror Box and VR Therapy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A cat whose left foreleg was amputated months earlier still tries to scoop litter with the missi...
3 Okt 26min
Polygraph on Trial: Wonder Woman's Creator, Aldrich Ames and the BTK Case
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The polygraph is a 2 billion dollar American industry running about 2.5 million tests a year, ye...
3 Okt 26min
