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  • S2 E11 The Great Stink
    Who would ever live in London?!
    PS. The Great Stink was also Emily's nickname in college!
    Sources for this episode:
    BOOKS:
    The Tiger in the Well by Phillip Pullman
    The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Capital by Stephen Halliday
    The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
    ONLINE:
    https://allthatsinteresting.com/great-stink-london
    https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/ridiculous-history-the-great-stink-london.htm
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bazalgette_joseph.shtml
    https://londonspulse.org/joseph-bazelgette-and-the-sewer-system/
    https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/tubes-bridges-sewers-centuries-old-infrastructure-londoners-still-use-today-3579
    https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/04/story-cities-14-london-great-stink-river-thames-joseph-bazalgette-sewage-system
    https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/04/story-cities-14-london-great-stink-river-thames-joseph-bazalgette-sewage-system
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/12/13/scientists-say-theyve-solved-mystery-1952-london-killer-fog/95375738/
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/05/smog-day-warning-18000-die-london-great-smog-1952-air-pollution
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/social_conditions/victorian_urban_planning_04.shtml
    https://www.history.com/news/the-killer-fog-that-blanketed-london-60-years-ago
    1 hr 4 min
  • S2 EP10 Great Fires
    In this episode, we get a crash course in the effects of bad urban planning.
    On an unrelated note, $1,000 in 1871 is worth about $20,000 today.
    43 min
  • S2 Ep9 Coroners Who Suck At Their Job
    Rage against the medical examiner machine!!
    Death Maps Resources:
    Graphics: How Is Death Investigated In Your State? — NPR
    https://www.npr.org/2011/02/03/131242432/graphics-how-is-death-investigated-in-your-state
    Map: Death in America — Frontline
    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/post-mortem/map-death-in-america/
    Coroners Don't Need Degrees To Determine Death — NPR
    https://www.npr.org/2011/02/02/133403760/coroners-dont-need-degrees-to-determine-death
    37 min
  • S2 EP8 Lemp Mansion
    This episode is about ghosts. Depressed beer ghosts!!
    Come stay a night in one of St. Louis's most happenin' haunts— The Lemp Mansion.
    59 min
  • S2 EP3 Nipah And White Nose
    Bats giving diseases to people, and people giving diseases to bats. Oh the Batmanity!! When will it end?!
    Book:
    A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization by Robert Evans (who also has an excellent podcast called Behind the Bastards)
    Sources:
    https://www.nps.gov/subjects/bats/benefits-of-bats.htm
    https://www.nps.gov/articles/what-is-white-nose-syndrome.htm
    http://science.sciencemag.org/content/329/5992/679.long
    https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=125883
    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/wests-first-case-of-devasting-fugus-found-in-bat-near-north-bend/
    https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2016/05/white-nose_syndrome_how_everyd.html
    https://earthsky.org/earth/bat-killing-fungus-continues-to-spread-west-through-the-us
    Bat Conservation International (become a member like menstrual Emily):
    http://www.batcon.org/why-bats/bats-are/bats-are-important
    49 min
  • S2 EP2 Space
    "Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence." — Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy.
    Books Mentioned in This Episode:
    The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space and Speed by Scott Parazynski
    Starman: The Truth Behind the Legacy of Yuri Gargarin by Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony
    https://www.wired.com/2014/11/marsha-ivins/
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/meet-the-real-ironman-of-spaceflight-valery-polyakov/
    https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/2013/bacteria-sent-into-space.html
    https://www.space.com/19921-space-station-science-germs-worms.html
    https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/can-germs-live-in-outer-space
    Astronaut Scott Kelly has a book about his experience called Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
    56 min

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A podcast written, recorded, and produced by two amateurs, Jennifer and Emily, who tell you what scares them. Clint is their editor and mortal enemy.