Hippocratic Oath: Apollo, a Bladder Stone Ban and Louis Lasagna's Rewrite
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!First, do no harm does not appear in the Hippocratic Oath. This episode examines what the oath a...
3 Okt 21min
The Hawthorne Effect Myth: Moonlit Workbenches, Relay Rooms and Lost Data
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Hawthorne effect says people change their behavior when they know they are being watched, an...
3 Okt 23min
Neanderthals Reconsidered: Boule's Arthritic Skeleton, Birch Tar and 2% DNA
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Neander Valley was named after hymn writer Joachim Neander, whose family had changed its nam...
3 Okt 21min
Altitude Sickness: Acosta's Andes, HAPE, the Gamow Bag and Tibetan Genes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Around 30 BCE a Chinese text warned Silk Road travelers about the Big Headache Mountains of the ...
3 Okt 23min
Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiments: Mallets, 'Sock Him' and a Cartoon Cat
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1961, at the Stanford University Nursery School, psychologist Albert Bandura tested whether c...
3 Okt 19min
Brain Freeze Explained: Trigeminal Nerve Mix-Ups, Cats and Skull Drills
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The cold stimulus headache, better known as ice cream headache or brain freeze, starts on the ro...
3 Okt 26min
Lucid Dreaming: Alan Worsley's Eye Signals and Two-Way Talks With Dreamers
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dutch psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden coined the term lucid dream in 1913, borrowing from the ps...
3 Okt 25min
Henry Gray's Anatomy: 18 Months in the Mortuary and Death at Age 34
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Henry Gray, born in 1827, was already lecturing on anatomy at St. George's Hospital Medical Scho...
3 Okt 22min
