The Barber Pole: From Bloodletting Staff to Loading Screens and Jet Gauges
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The spinning red and white pole outside a barbershop began as a medical advertisement. After the...
3 Okt 19min
Barber Surgeons: Monk Tonsures, Battlefield Amputations and Robe Rivalries
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For centuries the person who cut your hair also pulled teeth, applied leeches, and amputated lim...
3 Okt 23min
B.F. Skinner: Pigeon-Guided Missiles, the Skinner Box and Baby in a Box
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!During World War II, B.F. Skinner trained pigeons to peck at images of enemy ships so their peck...
3 Okt 23min
Ayurveda: Doshas, Ancient Nose Reconstruction and Heavy Metal Remedies
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!More than 2,000 years ago, texts from the Indian subcontinent described rebuilding a nose with a...
3 Okt 20min
Autopsies: Caesar's Fatal Wound, Missed ICU Errors and Wrong Death Records
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The word autopsy comes from the Greek autopsia, to see for oneself. This episode follows that id...
3 Okt 24min
Aspirin's Strange Path: Willow Bark, Suicide Inhibition and Cancer Cells
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!People take aspirin somewhere between 50 and 120 billion times a year, yet for most of its comme...
3 Okt 24min
Horace Wells: The Laughing Gas Dentist Who Died Before Paris Honored Him
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before the 1840s, surgery meant being strapped to a table and feeling every cut, and many doctor...
3 Okt 23min
Alien Hand Syndrome: Baby Joseph, Warring Hands and the Missing Brain Memo
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In alien hand syndrome, one hand, most often the left, carries out purposeful actions its owner ...
3 Okt 21min
