This week we talk about how to dispose of those inconvenient home wreckers: babies. Join us as we discuss the bad old days, the mothers were slaves, the babies were dead, and the government was busy with important matters.

Sources:

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/curtain-lifts-on-decades-of-forced-adoptions-for-unwed-mothers-in-canada

https://www.history.com/news/magdalene-laundry-ireland-asylum-abuse

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/the-last-of-the-magdalenes-the-nuns-took-my-childhood-1.3515146

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_American_bastardy_laws

https://thegirlswhowentaway.com/

https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/amelia-dyer/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/dagmar-overbye

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Scoop_Era

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-awkward-17thcentury-dating-practice-that-saw-teens-get-bundled-into-bags

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/1991/01/08/unwed-motherhood-insights-from-the-colonial-era/14ff7ff2-d03d-4552-86c5-73b8c15341b0/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/everything-youve-heard-about-chastity-belts-is-a-lie

http://cdalebrittain.blogspot.com/2015/06/medieval-bastards.html

Sunday Oct 13, 2019

Commercial Air Travel

Sunday Oct 13, 2019

If you've got a flight coming up, you may want to skip this one. If you're brave enough, we've got plane crashes involving crocodiles, sex, bees, and the false confidence instilled by Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Sources:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/commercial

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=air

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=aviation

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericrosen/2019/01/02/the-2019-list-of-the-longest-flights-in-the-world/#1d2098b4550b

https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Singapore_Air/Singapore_Airlines_Airbus_A350-900ULR.php

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/27/science/the-doctor-s-world-are-pilots-protected-from-contaminated-food.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk-down_aircraft_landing

https://work.chron.com/weight-height-restrictions-flight-attendants-27593.html

https://www.airlinereporter.com/2009/11/row-13-some-airlines-have-it-some-dont/

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/ice

https://www.businessinsider.com/52-phrases-only-people-in-the-airline-industry-will-understand-2014-2

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/democraticrepublicofcongo/8078612/Aircraft-crashes-after-crocodile-on-board-escapes-and-sparks-panic.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5826778/Wedding-disaster-throwing-of-brides-bouquet-causes-plane-to-crash.html

http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/N47506-MileHigh.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgenair_Flight_301

http://www.planecrashinfo.com/unusual.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missing_aircraft

https://www.vox.com/2014/7/25/5933871/statistics-plane-crash-safety-accident-aircraft-MH17-malaysia

https://home.bt.com/news/on-this-day/june-10-1990-miracle-of-ba-flight-5390-as-captain-is-sucked-out-of-the-cockpit-and-survives-11363985642960

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/airplane-incidents_n_4936175

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/17/philadelphia-plane-emergency-southwest-landing-engine-explosion-latest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Horizon_Air_Q400_incident

Sunday Oct 06, 2019

What About? Part 4

Sunday Oct 06, 2019

It's our 2th anniversary! Join us as we catch up on what's been happening with some of our show topics including diarrhea, squatters, and the ol' uterus.

Sources:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/18/pop-up-hotel-in-the-north-pole-will-charge-guests-100000-to-stay.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/hotels/2019/08/20/atlanta-hotel-death-man-flashes-housekeeper-falls-balconies/2059523001/

https://people.com/human-interest/magician-dies-body-found-in-river-after-failed-escape-stunt/

https://people.com/health/teen-boy-developed-blindness-junk-food-diet/

https://wtkr.com/2019/09/04/woman-returns-from-funeral-to-find-squatters-living-in-her-apartment-pawning-her-things/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7008287/Mexican-Indians-ritually-disfigured-Spaniards-remains.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline&utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59nbdn/woman-sues-lisa-vanderpump-rules-restaurant-alleging-diarrhea-disaster

https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/eye-on-government/mistaken-identity-innocent-man-free-from-jail-2-years-after-convicted-of-rape-OvtbZ2L7oUOM3AL6xDG9LQ/

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-police-dog-trained-sniff-out-child-porn-electronic-devices-1459298

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thefreethinker/2019/09/violent-gay-exorcism-police-investigating-an-oklahoma-church/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-orthodox-priests-plane-holy-water-alcohol-tver-a9110316.html

https://www.insider.com/leon-haughton-jailed-us-customs-jamaican-honey-mistaken-for-meth-2019-8

https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/woman-two-wombs-birthed-triplets-all-your-questions-answered.html

https://abcnews.go.com/US/worlds-dangerous-bird-kills-75-year-man-florida/story?id=62392308

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/business/self-driving-cars-jaywalking.html

https://globalnews.ca/news/5853582/woman-dies-rooster-peck/

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/thomas-cook-holidaymaker-says-pool-18991936

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/baby-girl-colombia-was-born-her-twin-inside-her-abdomen-180971786/

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/gunnar-woodland-park-zoos-red-tailed-hawk-returns-home/

https://drferox.tumblr.com/post/182568938248/spiderkiss-infraredf0xes-worse-4-less

https://unofficialnetworks.com/2019/08/29/rhino-attacks-car/

Sunday Sep 29, 2019

Sleep Deprivation

Sunday Sep 29, 2019

This week we watch the sunrise as we discuss the pitfalls of staying up too long. Join us as we discuss the many things you shouldn't do while tired such as drive a car, fly a plane, or operate on someone.

Sources:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/sleep

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=deprivation

https://common-phobias.com/Somni/phobia.htm

https://www.etymonline.com/word/hypnophobia

http://common-phobias.com/Clino/phobia.htm

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/272265.And_Then_You_Die

https://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/article/3733

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_in_non-human_animals

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/30/foer.php

https://www.elitedaily.com/p/6-animals-that-dont-need-sleep-basically-have-the-greatest-superpower-of-all-7626291

https://mosaicscience.com/story/staying-awake-surprisingly-effective-way-treat-depression/

https://www.verywellhealth.com/description-of-microsleep-3015366

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-sleep-clears-brain

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/307334.php

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-sleep-deprivation-publicity-stunt-that-drove-one-ma-1550084876

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/12/06/504448639/drivers-beware-crash-rate-spikes-with-every-hour-of-lost-sleep

https://www.sleephelp.org/truck-driver-fatigue/

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2019/08/30/trucker-whose-nap-10-led-13-deaths-tour-bus-gets-four-year-sentence/2164352001/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Fitzgerald_and_MV_ACX_Crystal_collision

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_S._McCain_and_Alnic_MC_collision

https://www.military.com/dodbuzz/2018/03/23/ship-collisions-prompt-navy-research-sleep-deprivation.html

https://www.thebalancecareers.com/faa-final-rule-pilot-duty-and-rest-requirements-282927

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_fatigue

https://www.aol.com/2013/03/18/deadly-air-france-crash-pilot-marc-dubois-was-sleep-deprived-r/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stewart_Halsted

https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2017/03/secret-horrors-sleep-deprived-doctors.html

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/392566

https://medium.com/@arifakhtar/dying-to-sleep-the-waking-nightmare-of-fatal-familial-insomnia-874126b43c3a

Sunday Sep 22, 2019

Placebos

Sunday Sep 22, 2019

This week we feel better about ourselves by just believing we could. Also, we ate some Skittles. Join us as we discuss the confounding ability of placebos to help with pain relief, depression, and IBS, leading us to ask, why not just do that in the first place, brain?

Sources:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/placebo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorphins

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3104618/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_(at_funeral)

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)61775-X/fulltext

https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/95/1/19/2520190

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/80579

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_in_history

https://harvardmagazine.com/2017/03/henry-knowles-beecher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_K._Beecher

https://maximumfun.org/adam-ruins-everything/adam-ruins-everything-episode-45-dr-kathryn-hall-surprising-power-placebos

https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/04/23/man-who-overdosed-placebo-12871

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/5whgzd/placebo-can-the-mind-cure-you

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/03/11/the-placebo-effect-digested-10-amazing-findings/

Sunday Sep 15, 2019

Diarrhea and Irritable Bowl Syndrome

Sunday Sep 15, 2019

This week we get our hands dirty (and our underwear, pants, and sometimes shoes) talking about tum tum trubs. Join is as we discuss chlorine and sanitizer proof viruses that make you poop yourself to death, how to have both constipation and diarrhea, and the plight of poor pitiful poopy pigs.

Sources:

https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/diarrhea-burden.html

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diarrhea/symptoms-causes/syc-20352241

https://www.geni.com/projects/People-who-died-from-Diarrhea/27869

https://www.etymonline.com/word/diarrhea

https://porkcdn.s3.amazonaws.com/sites/all/files/documents/PED-WhatIsIt.pdf

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/p0627-outbreaks-diarrhea-summertime.html

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/irritable-bowel-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20360016

https://www.healthline.com/health/anxiety-diarrhea#ibs-link

https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=12270

Sunday Sep 08, 2019

The Mouth - 100th Episode Special!

Sunday Sep 08, 2019

This week we put our money where our mouths are as we discuss tongues longer than the bodies that hold them, exploding teeth, and the perils of swallowing molten lead. Also, we conduct our first on air experiment for our 100th episode! Thanks for sticking with us.

Sources:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/mouth

https://www.etymonline.com/word/tongue

http://common-phobias.com/Philema/phobia.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossophobia

https://phobia.wikia.org/wiki/Laliophobia

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tongue-facts-health-info_n_5952850

https://www.ranker.com/list/human-mouth-facts/katherine-ripley

https://www.healthline.com/health/swallowing-tongue

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/neat-and-tidy-map-tastes-tongue-you-learned-school-all-wrong-180963407/

http://www.reptilesmagazine.com/Wild-Turtles-Tortoises/Chinese-Soft-Shell-Turtles-Expel-Urea-Via-Their-Mouths/

https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2014/02/24/5-of-natures-weirdest-tongues-2/

https://www.earthtouchnews.com/wtf/wtf/green-woodpecker-tongues-are-so-long-they-wrap-around-their-skulls/

https://www.colgate.com/en-us/oral-health/basics/mouth-and-teeth-anatomy/types-of-abnormal-tongues-and-what-they-look-like

https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/cellphones-are-silencing-bird-languages-remote-northern-turkey

https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/6972/marcus-gunn-phenomenon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wilhelm_Scheele

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080583/

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/medicine-history-cases-weird-sailor-exploding-teeth-doctor/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hall_(lighthouse_keeper)

http://www.thomas-morris.uk/a-flaming-nuisance/

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160301-the-gruesome-and-mysterious-case-of-exploding-teeth

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/girl-with-severe-nut-allergy-died-after-kissing-boyfriend-who-had-eaten-peanut-butter-sandwich-a7073501.html

https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/18/health/baby-dies-of-meningitis-from-herpes-virus/index.html

Sunday Sep 01, 2019

Jail Breaks

Sunday Sep 01, 2019

This week we talk about how someday, somehow, we'll be free. Join us as we discuss various techniques for flying the coop like becoming a master of yoga, whittling a toy gun out of wood, and calling the jail you're in, telling them your a judge, and ordering them to let you go.

Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/06/steven-russell-elizabeth-day-jim-carrey

https://nowiknow.com/the-man-who-walked-out-of-prison-a-few-times/

https://soranews24.com/2012/09/25/korean-yoga-master-escapes-jail-by-squeezing-through-food-slot-in-cell/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/choi-gap-bok-prison-escape_n_1919866

https://www.sentencingproject.org/criminal-justice-facts/

https://www.gq.com/story/florida-man-prison-break

http://mentalfloss.com/article/12794/50-prison-slang-words-make-you-sound-tough-guy

https://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/US-Prison-Population-Trends-1999-2015.pdf

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/11397583/Mass-escape-from-Brazilian-prison-after-women-seduce-guards.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1962_Alcatraz_escape_attempt

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/dillinger-breaks-jail-wooden-pistol-1934-article-1.2548065

Sunday Aug 25, 2019

Operation Theaters

Sunday Aug 25, 2019

This week we get our hands dirty with 19th century operation theaters. Join us as we discuss how to amputate a limb in under 30 seconds, the practice of never cleaning anything, and the frustration of how often patients died after being cut apart with a rusty saw.

Sources:

https://www.drlindseyfitzharris.com/books/

https://www.etymonline.com/word/operate

https://www.etymonline.com/word/theater

https://spartacus-educational.com/U3Ahistory21.htm

https://listverse.com/2019/01/15/10-gruesome-and-shocking-facts-about-victorian-surgery/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erysipelas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangrene

https://www.healthline.com/health/septicemia#symptoms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyaemia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Young_Simpson

https://www.woodlibrarymuseum.org/history-of-anesthesia/