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  • Ring around the rosie
    Links and references from the episode:
    * Wikipedia: Ring a Ring o’ Roses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o'_Roses)
    * William Wells Newell: Games and Songs of American Children (https://books.google.com/books?id=6tvfAAAAMAAJ)
    * Metafolklore: Ring Around the Rosie (https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/07/ring-around-the-rosie-metafolklore-rhyme-and-reason/)
    * Wikipedia: San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_plague_of_1900%E2%80%931904)
    * Youtube: Footloose "Dancing Warehouse" Scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8XGmZ8HDIU)
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  • Errata 01
    References from this episode:
    * There's no "new" and "old" brain
    * Wikipedia: Triune brain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain)
    * How should you pull off a bandaid?
    * Medical Journal of Australia: Fast versus slow bandaid removal: a randomised trial (https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2009/191/11/fast-versus-slow-bandaid-removal-randomised-trial)
    * Fine hair is less likely to ingrow
    * WebMD: Ingrown hair (https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/guide/ingrown-hair-causes-symptoms-treatment)
    * Puberty is happening earlier and earlier
    * The Guardian: Why is puberty starting younger? (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/04/why-is-puberty-starting-younger-precocious)
    * The Alexander mosaic hasn't faded mostly because of oxide-based pigments
    * American Journal of Archaeology: Chemical Classification and Provenance of Some Roman Glazed Ceramics (https://www.jstor.org/stable/506438?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents)
    * Pigs can sweat, but not through their cloven hooves
    * International Journal of Biometeorology: The evolution of sweat glands (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF01049065)
    * The Earth Pyramid is meant to be "green," not "renewable
    * Earth Pyramid: Construction (https://www.earthpyramid.org/construction/)
    * Soldiers probably had to wait months to return home after World War II
    * Wikipedia: Demobilization of United States armed forces after World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demobilization_of_United_States_armed_forces_after_World_War_II)
    * We got rid of DDT, not DEET
    * Wikipedia: DEET (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEET)
    * Carrot cake wasn't invented in WWII
    * Wikipedia: Carrot cake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot_cake)
    * Vitamin B comes from bacteria
    * MIT News: MIT biologists solve vitamin puzzle (http://news.mit.edu/2007/b12)
    * Bees aren't tetrachromats, but they can see in UV
    * Evan Thompson: Colour Vision: A Study of Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception (https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Colour+Vision.+A+Study+of+Cognitive+Science+and+the+Philosophy+of+...-a053489986)
    * Wikipedia: Aphakia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphakia)
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  • Animal grab bag
    Sources from this episode:
    * Bullfighting
    * Wikipedia: Bullfighte (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfighter)r
    * Leigh & Morris: With the World's Great Travelers, Volume 3 (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35632)
    * Bats
    * The Verge: Not even bats are 'blind as a bat' (https://www.theverge.com/science/2017/7/5/15904354/bats-blind-myth-someone-lied-to-you)
    * National Geographic: 6 Bat Myths Busted (https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141031-bats-myths-vampires-animals-science-halloween/)
    * Goldfish
    * The Daily Mail (sorry): Old goldfish (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160273/The-boy-won-goldfish-funfair-aged-amazed-survives-24-years.html)
    * Telegraph: Fish's memories last for months, say scientists (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/4158477/Fishs-memories-last-for-months-say-scientists.html)
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  • Dog-o-vision
    Some links from this week's episode:
    * Pet Health Network: Are dogs really colorblind? (http://www.pethealthnetwork.com/dog-health/dog-diseases-conditions-a-z/are-dogs-really-colorblind)
    * ColBlindor: Deuteranopia—Red-green color blindness
    * Whole Dog Journal: Structure of the canine eye (https://www.whole-dog-journal.com/issues/7_9/features/Canine-Eye_15653-1.html)
    * Daily Treat: 7 dog myths you totally thought were true (https://www.rover.com/blog/7-dog-myths/)
    * The Spruce Pets: What are the biggest dog myths? (https://www.thesprucepets.com/biggest-dog-myths-1117469)
    * Clive Maxfield: Color vision: one of nature's wonders (http://www.clivemaxfield.com/diycalculator/popup-m-cvision.shtml)
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  • Early photography
    Links and references from this episode:
    * Camera obscura
    * Wikipedia: Camera obscura (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura)
    * Encyclopædia Britannica: Photography (https://www.britannica.com/technology/photography)
    * Nicéphore Niépce
    * Maison Nicéphor Niépce: The History of Photography (http://www.photo-museum.org/photography-history/)
    * Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
    * Mental Floss: Daguerreotype Q&A (http://mentalfloss.com/article/16677/daguerreotype-qa)
    * Henry Fox Talbot
    * Wikipedia: Calotype (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calotype)
    * Later photography
    * Wikipedia: Collodion process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collodion_process)
    * Smiling in early photographs
    * IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging: A Century of Portraits: A Visual Historical Record of American High School Yearbooks (http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~shiry/publications/IEEE_yearbooks.pdf)
    * Library of Congress: Her Majesty’s gracious smile. An instantaneous photograph from life (https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3b39605/)
    * Critical Studies in Media Communication: Why We Say “Cheese”: Producing the Smile in Snapshot Photography (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0739318042000331853?needAccess=true)
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  • Vitamin A, B, C
    Some links from the show:
    * Vitamin A and night visions
    * British Journal of Opthalmology: Night vision in a case of vitamin A deficiency due to malabsorption (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1039942/pdf/brjopthal00157-0047.pdf)
    * Types of vitamin A
    * National Institutes of Health: Vitamin A (https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminA-HealthProfessional/)
    * Overdosing on vitamin A
    * Wikipedia: Hypervitaminosis A (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_A)
    * How vegans get B12
    * PETA: Vegan B12 sources that will make you healthy in body and mind (https://www.peta.org/living/food/vegan-b12-sources-will-make-healthy-body-mind/)
    * Linus Pauling's vitamin C quest
    * Vox: How Linus Pauling duped America into believing vitamin C cures colds (https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7547741/vitamin-c-myth-pauling)
    * Does vitamin C treat colds?
    * Cochrane Library: Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold (http://cochranelibrary-wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD000980.pub3/abstract;jsessionid=F30FC0763AD9AE151A2D080C9C223DC4.f03t01?systemMessage=Cochrane+Library+will+be+unavailable+on+Saturday+24th+March+2018+at+05.00+EDT+%2F+09%3A00+GMT+%2F+14%3A30+IST+%2F+17.00+SGT+for+3+hours+due+to+essential+maintenance.+Apologies+for+any+inconvenience.)
    * WebMD: Vitamin C for the common cold (https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/vitamin-c-for-common-cold)
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  • Recumbent birth
    We come to a shocking conclusion this week: if you're pregnant, you should probably go to a hospital.
     
    Some sources from this episode:
    * Midwives require accreditation
    * Wikipedia: Midwife (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwife#United_States)
    * Somewhere between 1 and 1.5% of women died giving birth in the 1700s
    * Slate: The Disturbing, Shameful history of Childbirth Deaths (http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_longevity/2013/09/death_in_childbirth_doctors_increased_maternal_mortality_in_the_20th_century.html)
    * Twilight sleep was an early approach to sedation that wasn't quite... ideal.
    * Wikipedia: Twilight sleep (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_sleep)
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  • Muscle soreness
    References from the show:
    * Types of soreness
    * Wikipedia: Delayed onset muscle soreness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness)
    * Wikipedia: Acute muscle soreness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_muscle_soreness)
    * A very helpful review on all things soreness
    * Sports Medicine: Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (https://link.springer.com/article/10.2165/00007256-200333020-00005)
    * More articles
    * BJSM: Stretching before or after exercise does not reduce delayed-onset muscle soreness (http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/45/15/1249)
    * IJSPT: The effects of self-myofascial release using a foam roll or roller massager on joint range of motion, muscle recovery, and performance: a systematic review (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26618062/)
    * JAT: Effects of massage on delayed-onset muscle soreness, swelling, and recovery of muscle function (https://www.carolinashealthcare.org/documents/NorthEastInternalIntegrative/research-library/Massage/DelayedOnsetMuscleSoreness.pdf)
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  • State of the union
    Some notes and sources from the episode:
    * State of the Union Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
    * www.presidency.ucsb.edu/sou.php.
    * George Washington's Mount Vernon: First Annual Address to Congress (http://www.mountvernon.org/digital-encyclopedia/article/first-annual-address-to-congress/)
    * Franklin D. Roosevelt: Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union - January 6, 1941.
    * The American Presidency Project: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16092 (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16092)
    * George W. Bush: Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union - January 29, 2002. 
    * The American Presidency Project: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29644 (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29644)
    * George Washington's first state of the union address
    * George Washington's Mount Vernon: www.mountvernon.org/education/primary-sources/state-of-the-union-address (http://www.mountvernon.org/education/primary-sources/state-of-the-union-address)
    * U.S. Constitution. Art. II, Sec. 3
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  • Divorce
    Here's a correction: I accidentally said DEET instead of DDT, and just ran with it. You'll have to forgive us for being silly.
    Some links and references used for the show:
    * How divorce has changed since the 1980s
    * AARP: Divorce, 1981-style (https://www.aarp.org/home-family/friends-family/info-2016/divorce-1980s.html)
    * The military and divorce
    * Wevorce: Marriages—another casualty of war? (https://www.wevorce.com/blog/marriages-another-casualty-of-war/)
    * Divorce statistics
    * United States Census Bureau: Number, timing, and duration of marriages and divorces: 2009 (https://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p70-125.pdf)
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