This week, we celebrate the brains of this whole operation: Ceri!
This week, we celebrate the brains of this whole operation: Ceri!
This episode starts out incredibly wholesome! There are beagles, Pokemon, gardening… but, per usual, Ceri has to make it all about body horror in the end. Find out what terrible modifications she’d make to the human body!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Fact Off]
Pokemon memory study
Articles:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/su-abr050219.php
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18531287/pokemon-neuroscience-visual-cortex-brain-information
https://massivesci.com/articles/pokemon-detective-pikachu-brains-video-games/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7567-why-your-brain-has-a-jennifer-aniston-cell/
https://www.sciencealert.com/if-you-were-a-pokemon-whizz-as-a-kid-it-might-be-etched-in-your-brain
Paper:
Stanford Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEIuQRHElcQ&ab_channel=Stanford
SciShow Video:
Beagle & polar bear poop
http://cincinnatizoo.org/news-releases/can-a-canine-detect-polar-bear-pregnancy/
https://www.wvxu.org/post/no-cubs-anana-zoos-polar-bear-not-pregnant#stream/0
http://blog.cincinnatizoo.org/2014/09/01/how-can-you-tell-if-a-polar-bear-is-pregnant/
[Ask the Science Ceri Couch]
Oxygen tank organ
https://www.nature.com/news/making-the-most-of-muscle-oxygen-1.13202
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/14/2180
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/214/15/2455
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23160832/
Electrogenic organ
https://opentextbc.ca/anatomyandphysiologyopenstax/chapter/skeletal-muscle/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-electric-eels-gene
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/212/9/1351
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/13/2451
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/24jun_electrostatics
[Butt One More Thing]
Pigeon poop hair bleach
https://www.hji.co.uk/blonde/brief-history-of-blondes-hair-historian/
https://books.google.com/books?id=Yw_0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT48&lpg=PT48