Sleepwalking Brain: Deep N3 Sleep, Night Cooking and Murder Trials
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sleepwalking, or somnambulism, is not acting out a dream. This episode explains it as state diss...
3 Okt 22min
Hysteria's Long Afterlife: Scent Therapy, Galen and the Mary Glover Trial
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For roughly two thousand years, mainstream medicine taught that a woman's womb could roam her bo...
3 Okt 25min
The Nocebo Effect: Sugar Pill Side Effects, Statin Scares and Curses
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1961 physician Walter Kennedy coined the word nocebo, Latin for I shall harm, to describe har...
3 Okt 21min
The Mammalian Diving Reflex: Seal Hearts, Bajau Spleens and Cold Water
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Every air breathing vertebrate studied has some version of the mammalian diving reflex, and infa...
3 Okt 21min
Human Echolocation: Daniel Kish, Ben Underwood and Seeing With Clicks
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Some blind people play basketball, mountain bike and skateboard with no technology at all, using...
3 Okt 25min
Onesimus: The Arm Scar That Taught Cotton Mather to Fight Smallpox
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In December 1706 the congregation of Boston's North Church bought a young West African man, like...
3 Okt 20min
Earle Dickson's Band-Aid: A Kitchen Fix That Sold $3,000 in Year One
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1920 Earle Dickson, a cotton buyer for Johnson & Johnson in Highland Park, New Jersey, watche...
3 Okt 18min
Sildenafil: The Failed Angina Drug From Sandwich, Kent That Became Viagra
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1989 a Pfizer team led by Simon Campbell in Sandwich, Kent synthesized compound UK92480, hopi...
3 Okt 22min
