Rorschach's Inkblots: A Printer's Error, Exner Scoring and a Wikipedia War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hermann Rorschach, vice president of the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society, designed his 10 inkblots ...
3 Okt 22min
Warfarin: From Moldy Sweet Clover Cattle Deaths to Eisenhower's Heart
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the early 1920s, cattle across the northern United States and Canada began bleeding to death ...
3 Okt 25min
Rabies: Hydrophobia, Bat Bites, Swiss Fox Baits and the Milwaukee Protocol
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rabies is nearly 100 percent fatal once symptoms appear and nearly 100 percent preventable if tr...
3 Okt 24min
Quinine: Cinchona Bark, Java's Dutch Cartel and the Birth of Gin and Tonic
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Tonic water glows blue under a black light because of quinine, a molecule this episode follows f...
3 Okt 21min
Proprioception: Muscle Spindles, the Pinocchio Illusion and Ian Waterman
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Touching your nose with your eyes closed relies on proprioception, the sense of body position, m...
3 Okt 25min
Vagus Nerve: Otto Loewi's Frog Hearts, Fainting and Parkinson's in the Gut
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The vagus nerve, the tenth cranial nerve, takes its name from the Latin for wandering. This epis...
3 Okt 22min
Oxytocin's Dark Side: Swift Birth, Trust Sprays and Lying for the Tribe
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Oxytocin is sold in pop science as the cuddle hormone, but this episode argues it works more lik...
3 Okt 23min
Balmis Expedition: 22 Orphans Who Carried Smallpox Vaccine Across Oceans
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In late November 1803 the ship Maria Pita left A Coruña, Spain, carrying 22 orphan boys aged thr...
3 Okt 22min
