Lazarus Phenomenon: Velma Thomas's 17 Hours and Hearts That Restart Alone
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Lazarus phenomenon is the spontaneous return of a heartbeat after CPR has been stopped and d...
3 Okt 24min
Stendhal Syndrome: Fainting at Santa Croce and Florence's Stricken Tourists
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1817 the French writer Marie-Henri Beyle, known as Stendhal, entered the Basilica of Santa Cr...
3 Okt 23min
Fingerprints on Trial: Francisca Rojas's Thumb, Koala Prints and AI Matches
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Koala fingerprints are so close to human ones that scientists struggle to tell them apart even u...
3 Okt 21min
Gout: Sue the T. Rex, the Lost Uricase Enzyme and Kidney Genes Over Diet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The fossil of Sue, the famous Tyrannosaurus rex, shows signs of gout, the same disease once call...
3 Okt 22min
Doctors Without Borders: Biafra, Témoignage and the Kunduz Hospital Bombing
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When Médecins Sans Frontières accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, its representative told the r...
3 Okt 23min
Bloodletting: George Washington's Last Night, Scarificators and Leeches
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1799 George Washington woke with a severe throat infection, and over the next 10 hours his do...
3 Okt 23min
Death Masks: Tutankhamun's Gold, Roman Wax Ancestors and the CPR Dummy Face
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The face on the standard CPR training mannequin comes from a plaster cast of an unidentified gir...
3 Okt 21min
Capgras Delusion: The 1923 Paris Case, Face Blindness and Impostor Spouses
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1923, French psychiatrist Joseph Capgras and his colleague Jean Reboul-Lachaux described a 53...
3 Okt 24min
