Circadian Rhythms: PER Genes, Svalbard Reindeer and 22-Hour Hamsters
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Why does waking at 3 a.m. feel so different from waking at 7, even after the same amount of slee...
3 Okt 19min
Hemispherectomy: How Children Thrive After Losing Half Their Brain
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A hemispherectomy removes or disconnects one entire half of the brain, and this episode traces h...
3 Okt 24min
Charles Drew: Banked Plasma, Blood for Britain and a Segregated Red Cross
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Charles R. Drew was born in 1904 in Washington, D.C., grew up in Foggy Bottom, and as a boy deli...
3 Okt 22min
Carl Jung: The Fainting Schoolboy, Freud's Crown Prince and the Red Book
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At 12, Carl Jung was knocked down by a classmate and began fainting whenever he tried to study, ...
3 Okt 21min
CPR Myths vs Reality: Stayin' Alive Pace, Hands-Only CPR and the AED
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On television, CPR revives patients about 75 percent of the time. In reality, survival after an ...
3 Okt 23min
Acquired Savant Syndrome: How Brain Injury and Magnets Unlock Hidden Skills
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Some people wake from a head injury able to do things they never learned, a condition called acq...
3 Okt 20min
Body Snatching: Resurrection Men, the 1788 Doctors' Riot and PVC Bones
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Body snatchers did not steal watches or rings. They stole the corpse and tossed the burial cloth...
3 Okt 21min
Body Farms: Bill Bass's Knoxville Lab, Vultures and the Soil Death Clock
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Until the early 1980s, investigators had little hard data on how a human body decays outdoors, s...
3 Okt 22min
