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ManEating Podcast

Episode 1: Lions

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Harvey and Adam discuss parasitic plants, lunar lifeforms and holidays on Mars.

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SHOW NOTES:

Introduction:

• Teemill
• Marwell Zoo giraffe experience
• The sloth

Animals Taken Away by Seagulls:

• Gizmo the chihuahua original article (BBC)
• Fears seagull swallowed dog whole (The Sun)
• Is this THE psycho seagull? (The Sun)
• Award/reward (The Sun)
• Psychic pet detective (Heart Radio)
• Leg bone discovered (The Mirror)

Dodder the gene thief:

• Tongue-eating louse
• Corpse flower
• Dodder
• News article (Science Daily)
• Scientific paper

Tardigrades on the Moon:

• Rafael Marine Microfauna
• Tardigrade under microscope
• News articles (BBC)

Spanish Mars holiday:

• Astroland website
• Astroland on TripAdvisor

Harvey and Adam discuss cryptic crocodiles, inexplicable ice worms and the billionaire space race. Featuring a long awaited review of Jurassic Park.

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SHOW NOTES:

Introduction

• Walk the Wight video

Dinosaur of the Month

• Vespersaurus news article (Phys Org)
• Pachystruthio news article (Popular Mechanics)
• Herbivorous crocodiles (National Geographic)
• Marine iguana teeth image

Ice worms

• News article (Science Daily)
• Scientific paper
• Image of the ice worm
• Image with coin for scale

Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos vs. Richard Branson

• Virgin Galactic's StarShip Two
• SpaceX's Dragon Capsule interior
• SpaceX's Starship image
• Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander
• Britain's spaceport news article (The Telegraph)
• The new space race news article (The Telegraph)

Jurassic Park:

• Dinosaur sound design (Vulture)

Harvey and Adam discuss befuddling bed bugs, cricket cuisine and worrisome wolves.

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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make ThingsMichael Braungart & William McDonough

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SHOW NOTES:

Introduction

• Walk the Wight JustGiving Page (£1,000 baby!)
• Adam playing softball

Dinosaur of the Month

• History of Aotearoa Podcast
• Moa skeleton
• Moa paleoart
• Footprints video
• News article (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Don't let the bed bugs bite

• Ladybird image
• Froghopper image
• Greenfly image
• Rain bug image
• Bed bug image
• Bedbugs evolved more than 100 million years ago (Science Daily)
• Bedbugs predated T. rex and Triceratops (The Scientist)
• Scientific paper
• Gallimimus

Eating insects

• Abokado poke bowl promo image
• Crickets have hit the high street - can they save the planet? (BBC)
• 7 reasons to eat insects (IFT)
• @EatBugsOutreach

Wolf hybrids

• Wolf-dog 'swarms' threaten Europe's wolves (Science Daily)
• Scientific paper

Harvey and Adam discuss mosquito music, dazzling diamonds, cantankerous cats and futuristic floating cities.

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Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction Katherine Blundell

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• Audiobook

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SHOW NOTES:

Introduction

• Ctenophore research
• Jakob Vinther (@macroevolut)
• First ever image of black hole (BBC)

Dinosaur of the Month

• Arctic dinosaurs (Smithsonian)
• Lambeosaurine Hadrosaurs paleoart

Mosquitos vs. Skrillex

• Scientific paper paper
• Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites

Natural and synthetic diamonds

• Largest square emerald cut diamond (Forbes)
• New theory of Earth's thermal evolution (SciNews)
• Scientific paper

Can cats understand us?

• Scientific paper

Floating cities

• Fantasy or the future? (BBC News)
• Oceanix website

Harvey and Adam discuss combustible comb jellies, mind-controlled molluscs, global dimming and the search for a ninth planet in our solar system.

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Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life Peter Godfrey-Smith

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SHOW NOTES:

Introduction

• Poly-anus flatworm

Walk the Wight

• JustGiving page
• Mountbatten Hospice

Dinosaur of the Month

• Bajadasaurus news article (Scientific American)
• Bajadasaurus reconstructed skeleton
• Bajadasaurus palaeoart
• Moros intrepidus news article (Sci-News)

The Planet Nine Hypothesis

• News article (MIT Technology Review)
• Scientific paper
• Ultima Thule (Astronomy Now)
• Competition to name Jupiter's new moons
• The time on Saturn news article (Astrobio)

The Ephemeral Anus

• News article (Independent)
• Scientific paper
• About Ctenophora
• Mertensia ovum
• "Tortuga reds" (undescribed species)
• Bathocyroe fosteri

Mollusc mind-control

• Nautilus (image)
• Nudibranches
• Californian sea hare (video)
• News article (The New York Times)

Solar Geoengineering

• News article (Science Alert)
• Scientific paper
• Dropping Like Flies (Adam's blog post)
• White roofs (Independent)

Harvey and Adam discuss the flat earth. Featuring an interview with Mike Cavanaugh, President and Chairman of FECORE: an organisation dedicated to discovering the true shape of our planet...

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Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw

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SHOW NOTES:

Interview

• FECORE website
• George Biddell Airy
• Live stream from International Space Station via YouTube
• ISS tracker

Discussion

• Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact by Ludwik Fleck
• Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham
• Why Bill Nye shouldn't debate Ken Ham (RichardDawkins.net)
• Should scientists bother to debate creationism? (The Guardian)
• YouTube aids flat earth conspiracy theorists (BBC)
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog
• Kerbal Space Program

Harvey and Adam discuss crackerjack crows, floating farms, environmental vinyl and self-replicating robots.

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SHOW NOTES:

Introduction

• China grows plant on moon (Independent)

Harvey's Favourite Books of the Year*

• An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
  • Paperback
  • Audiobook
• The Odyssey by Homer
  • Paperback
  • Audiobook (narrated by Ian McKellen!)
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakeur
  • Paperback
  • Audiobook

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Dinosaur of the Month

• New species of new predator dinosaur (Telegraph)
• Dinosaur: Saltriovenator zanellai

Clever Caledonian corvids

• News article (Phys.org)
• Scientific paper

Floating farms

• Video (BBC)
• Floating farm in Rotterdam (BBC)
• Conceptual smart floating farm (Smithsonian)

Streaming vs. CDs and vinyl

• The Dark Side of the Tune (Music Tank)

Self-replicators

• Von Neumann probe (Wikipedia)
• "Grey Goo" doomsday scenario (Wikipedia)
• Synthetic organisms by Vint Cerf (WIRED)
• Self replicators news articles:
  • Why robot sex could save life on Earth (Telegraph)
  • Could we explore the entire galaxy with self-replicating robots (Popular Mechanics)
  • What is universal constructor? (Whatis.com)

Harvey and Adam discuss diamond dinosaurs, olfactory oddities, Tasmanian devils and a very unusual way of describing a rearing horse.

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SHOW NOTES:

Proto-mammal of the Year

• Lisowicia bojani

Harvey's animation

• Dinosaur of the Month

Dinosaur of the Month

• @TheMindRobber's article
• Kakuru kujani
• Macrocollum itaquii

Uncontacted peoples - the Sentinelese

• Neanderthal child devoured by bird (Live Science)
• Siberian wooly rhino (Live Science)
• Original news article (BBC)
• "21st Century Martyr" (The Christian Post)
• Follow-up article (This Is Insider)

Stimulating the olfactory bulb

• How many senses do we have? (John Hopkins University Press)
• News article (Science Daily)
• Scientific paper
• Daily Mail article 🤢
• Professor Cheok's 'digital smells' (NBC)
• Professor Cheok's list of inventions
• Kissinger video

Tasmanian devils and virtual fences

• UK deer road sign
• News article (Digital Trends)
• Scientific paper
• Adam's road safety hedgehog video
• Harvey's road safety hedgehog video

Harvey and Adam discuss man-eating tigers, prehistoric parasites, space elevators and the best way to fight off a zombie.

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SHOW NOTES:

Harvey's Halloween Party

• Harvey's costume
• Adam's costume 

Dinosaur of the Month

• News article (Independent) 

Eau de Tigre

• News article (The Telegraph) 

The "Birdwash" Conspiracy

• NHM bird egg and nest collection 
• News article (NY Times) 
• Scientific paper 

The Space Elevator

• The moon through Harvey's telescope 
• In A Nutshell video 
• News article (South China Morning Post)
• Scientific paper 

Killer Cockroaches

• Zombie snails video
• Jewelled wasp video 
• Adam's video
• News article (Science News)
• Scientific paper 

Does anybody read the show notes?