Fight or Flight: Osteocalcin, Timid Guppies and Why Freezing Works
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A crash in the night or a car swerving into your lane can take over your body before you conscio...
3 Okt 20min
Edmond Locard's Exchange Principle: Every Contact Leaves a Trace
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Edmond Locard, who lived from 1877 to 1966 and was called the Sherlock Holmes of Lyon, set up on...
3 Okt 17min
Earworms: Jean Harris's 33-Year Song Loop and Why Lady Gaga Sticks
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1946 Jean Harris heard Put the Blame on Mame at the movies, and the song played in her head f...
3 Okt 22min
Goldberger's Filth Parties: Injecting Pellagra Blood to Disprove a Germ
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1916 Dr. Joseph Goldberger, his wife Mary and his assistant injected themselves with the bloo...
3 Okt 18min
Pellagra's Four Ds: Untreated Corn, King Cotton and Joseph Goldberger
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Between 1906 and 1940 pellagra struck roughly three million Americans and killed more than 100,0...
3 Okt 24min
Dolly the Sheep: 277 Attempts, Three Mothers and a Born-Old Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dolly the sheep was born on July 5, 1996, at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, the only survivin...
3 Okt 18min
Colin Pitchfork: The Cake Decorator Caught by the First DNA Dragnet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Colin Pitchfork, born in 1960 and raised in Leicestershire, earned the Chief Scout's Award, repr...
3 Okt 22min
Polio's Clean Water Paradox: Iron Lungs, the First ICU and nOPV2
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Polio is ancient, from Egyptian art showing withered limbs to a 4,000-year-old skeleton in the U...
3 Okt 23min
