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Costumes, the confusing origins of Halloween customs, Devil’s night, old-fashioned candy vs. chocolate bars, candy-poisoning urban legends and of course Halloween movies and television [...]

A brief history of axes and notable murders, news items, movies, comics and “The Lesser of Two Evils”: murder by axe or murder by sword? Music: “Butcher Pete” by Roy Brown [...]

Go vote at http://www.podcastawards.com/ — we’re in both the “Education” and “Best Produced” podcasts. You can vote once/day until the awards are finished!

Caustic Soda is a labor of larva! Get to know the bot, tsetse, tumbu, bat and coffin fly, not to mention screw worm, sheep ked and ant decapitator. Also – what is myiasis? All this plus [...]

Thanks to your nominations, Caustic Soda is one of the nominees of the annual Podcast Awards. Why not take the plunge and vote for us in both the Best Produced and Education categories. You can [...]

Special guests science fiction legend Larry Niven and Buffy/Angel/Firefly editor Lisa Lassek join Kevin, Joe, and Toren at Vancouver’s VCON! We cover the dysfunctional tech society of Terry [...]

E-Coli, Salmonella, gut bacteria social networks (no, really!) and lots more infectious awesomeness! Jenna Capyk joins Kevin, Joe, and Toren for a podcast so chock full of prokaryotes it’s [...]