Jerusalem Syndrome: Margery Kempe's Weeping, Bar-El's Three Types and Y2K
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jerusalem syndrome is an umbrella term for religiously themed delusions and psychotic episodes t...
3 Okt 25min
Ivan Pavlov Without the Bell: Pavlov Pouches, Metronomes and Stalin Letters
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In early 1936, an 86 year old Ivan Pavlov lay dying of double pneumonia and asked a student to s...
3 Okt 22min
Hiccups Explained: Tadpole Gill Reflexes, Christopher Sands and FIST Straw
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hiccups have a folk reputation as a sign that someone is talking about you, a belief found in Sl...
3 Okt 24min
Goosebumps: Erector Pili Muscles, Cold Turkey and the Winchester Geese
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Horripilation, the pilomotor reflex better known as goosebumps, begins when the sympathetic nerv...
3 Okt 19min
Blood Types Beyond ABO: Duffy-Negative Malaria Shields and Bombay Blood
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A bone marrow transplant can change a patient's blood type, because the donor's stem cells take ...
3 Okt 27min
Wiedersheim's 86 'Useless' Organs: Embryo Tails, Baby Grips, Hiccups
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Charles Darwin's 1871 book The Descent of Man described rudimentary structures like body hair, w...
3 Okt 22min
Blushing: Darwin's Most Human Expression and Drummond's Beta Blocker Test
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Charles Darwin corresponded with missionaries and doctors worldwide to learn whether all peoples...
3 Okt 17min
Telomeres and Aging: The Hayflick Limit, Telomerase's Cancer Trade-Off
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Every time a human cell divides, the DNA copying machinery cannot finish the very tip of each ch...
3 Okt 26min
