Jill Price and HSAM: The Woman Who Remembers Every Day Since Age 14
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ask most people about February 5, 1980 and they draw a blank. Jill Price can relive it. Known in...
3 Okt 21min
Sigmund Freud: Eel Dissections, Cocaine, Emma Eckstein and Escape to London
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before the couch, there were eels. In 1876 a young Sigmund Freud spent four weeks in an Italian ...
3 Okt 19min
Porphyria: Purple Urine, Vampire Myths and King George III's Arsenic
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Porphyria is a group of metabolic disorders rooted in heme, the iron-containing molecule in hemo...
3 Okt 28min
Situs Inversus: Mirrored Organs, a Firing Squad Survivor and Cilia
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1970s Thailand a woman sentenced to death survived a firing squad aimed at the left side of h...
3 Okt 22min
Aphantasia: No Mind's Eye, Pixar's Ed Catmull and the Red Apple Test
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Picture a red apple and rate it from one, photo vivid, to five, nothing at all. Those who see no...
3 Okt 20min
Chimerism: Karen Keegan's DNA Mystery, Marmoset Twins and Lab Hybrids
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When Karen Keegan needed a kidney transplant, DNA tests on her sons showed she was not their bio...
3 Okt 21min
Laura Bridgman: The Deafblind Girl Who Taught Anne Sullivan to Spell
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Forty-five years before Helen Keller, Laura Bridgman became the first deafblind person famous fo...
3 Okt 20min
Jerri Nielsen: Self-Biopsy, Airdropped Chemo and a South Pole Winter
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Born Jerri Lin Cahill near Salem, Ohio, Jerri Nielsen became an emergency physician and mother o...
3 Okt 20min
