Mitochondrial Eve: Lucky Mother of All Living Humans, Not the First Woman
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Trace every living person's mother's mother's line far enough and all eight billion threads meet...
3 Okt 24min
Leonhard Seppala and Togo: The 1925 Serum Run's Overlooked Heroes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the winter of 1924 to 1925, Dr. Curtis Welch in Nome, Alaska, recognized the gray throat coat...
3 Okt 22min
Narcolepsy and Orexin: Laughter Collapses, Lost Neurons and H1N1
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Narcolepsy, from Greek words meaning numbness and attack, is often played for laughs on screen, ...
3 Okt 25min
Minnesota Starvation Experiment: 36 Volunteers, 24 Weeks of Hunger
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In November 1944, with famine looming across a war torn Europe and Asia and no one sure how to s...
3 Okt 23min
The Marshmallow Test Revisited: Trust, Broken Promises and Cuttlefish
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The famous marshmallow test began at Stanford's Bing Nursery School in the early 1970s with no m...
3 Okt 20min
Charles Osborne's 68-Year Hiccups: A 350-Pound Hog and 430 Million Spasms
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Charles Andrew Osborne, born around 1893 or 1894 in Missouri, was a farmer working fields across...
3 Okt 18min
Wilhelm Röntgen: Expelled Over a Cartoon, Then Gave X-Rays Away for Free
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Wilhelm Röntgen was born in Prussia in 1845, moved to the Netherlands as a toddler, and spent 40...
3 Okt 19min
Robert Liston: 'Time Me, Gentlemen' and Europe's First Ether Amputation
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Robert Liston, born in Scotland in 1794, stood six foot two with huge hands and a combative temp...
3 Okt 21min
