Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: Shrinking Hands, Migraines and Lewis Carroll
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Alice in Wonderland syndrome makes a person's own hands look like a toddler's, stretches a nearb...
3 Okt 24min
Alec Jeffreys: From a Dissected Cat to Inventing DNA Fingerprinting
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!As a boy in Luton, Alec Jeffreys dissected a dead cat from his paper route on the family dining ...
3 Okt 18min
Adrenaline: Hysterical Strength, Fear Memories and the Epinephrine Split
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Adrenaline is the hormone behind the parent who lifts a car off a trapped person and the skydive...
3 Okt 19min
Harry Harlow's Wire and Cloth Mothers and the Pit of Despair Experiments
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The psychologist who proved that affection is a biological need said he never loved the monkeys ...
3 Okt 23min
General Tom Thumb: How Charles Stratton Rescued P.T. Barnum from Ruin
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1863 Charles Sherwood Stratton, two feet eleven inches tall, stood on a grand piano at New Yo...
3 Okt 17min
Nitrous Oxide: Laughing Gas Parties, Luftwaffe Engines and a Climate Threat
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Joseph Priestley first made nitrous oxide in 1772 and called it dephlogisticated nitrous air. In...
3 Okt 28min
Chang and Eng Bunker: The Siamese Twins Who Took Control of Their Fame
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1824 Scottish merchant Robert Hunter saw what he took for a strange creature in a river in Si...
3 Okt 22min
Quarantine History: Venice's 40 Days, Eyam, Typhoid Mary and Apollo 11
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After walking on the moon in 1969, the Apollo 11 crew spent 21 days sealed in a modified Airstre...
3 Okt 25min
