G-Force Limits: John Stapp's 46 Gs, Kenny Bräck's 214 Gs and Mantis Shrimp
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The weight you feel right now is not gravity but the floor pushing up against you. This episode ...
3 Okt 20min
Mirror Neurons: From Parma's Macaque Peanut to the Broken Mirror Backlash
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the early 1990s, neurophysiologists at the University of Parma were recording single neurons ...
3 Okt 21min
Michel Lotito, Monsieur Mangetout: Nine Tons of Metal and a Cessna 150
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Michel Lotito, the French entertainer known as Monsieur Mangetout, could swallow a steel bicycle...
3 Okt 20min
Female Hysteria: 4,000 Years From Wandering Womb to Its 1980 DSM Removal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For centuries, anxiety, fainting, insomnia, fluid retention, and even a tendency to cause troubl...
3 Okt 24min
The Caduceus Mix-Up: Hermes' Staff of Commerce vs the Rod of Asclepius
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The winged staff wrapped by two snakes on ambulances, uniforms, and drug ads is the caduceus, an...
3 Okt 23min
Malaria's Plasmodium Parasite: Liver Stealth, Sticky Red Cells and Vaccines
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The name malaria comes from the medieval Italian for bad air, and for centuries people blamed th...
3 Okt 21min
MASH Units Beyond the Sitcom: Korean War Helicopters and Triage Tags
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is best known from the television sitcom, but the real units w...
3 Okt 15min
Leprosy (Hansen's Disease): Hijacked Nerve Cells, Armadillos, Alice Ball
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!About 95 percent of people are naturally immune to leprosy, and casual contact does not spread i...
3 Okt 22min
