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This entry is part 6 of 9 in the series The Five(ish) SensesHugs! Also, tickle torture, the “death touch,” touch in plants, Temple Grandin and the squeeze machine, the effects of [...]

This entry is part 5 of 9 in the series The Five(ish) SensesThe ‘Senses’ series continues with tactile perception, aka touch. In part one we discuss tactile disorders, sensory [...]

This entry is part 4 of 9 in the series The Five(ish) SensesDr. Nina Quiskamp joins Toren, Joe, and Kevin as our Five(ish) Senses series continues with “Smell”! We’ll talk about [...]

This entry is part 3 of 9 in the series The Five(ish) SensesJoe, Toren, and Kevin continue the Five(ish) Senses series this week with Hearing. We’ll cover how our bodies take in and process [...]

This entry is part 2 of 9 in the series The Five(ish) SensesOur Five(ish) Senses series continues with the second part of “Taste”. Kevin, Joe, and Toren look at taste in the animal [...]

This entry is part 1 of 9 in the series The Five(ish) SensesIn the first of our multi-part series on the senses, Kevin, Toren, and Joe look at umami, Scoville Heat Units and the world’s [...]

Toren, Joe, and Kevin are back with a look at the “collective delusions of threats”, or mass hysteria, including the June Bug Epidemic, Tanganyika laughter epidemic, The West Bank [...]

Nuclear Accidents continues with Three Mile Island, the Kyshtym Disaster, the Fernald Feed contamination, the SL-1 meltdown, the Soviet sub K-431 refueling disaster, the Zaragoza radiotherapy [...]

Bob Apthorpe, nuclear engineer, defense waste cleanup & severe accident analyst, joins us to talk about nuclear meltdowns and other accidents involving radioactivity. We discuss scavenged [...]

This entry is part 8 of 10 in the series Caustic "Icide Guide"TRIGGER WARNING:  Some of the images and videos below are GRAPHIC, and of course the episode deals with suicide entirely. Dr. Rob [...]