Teach Me Something

Most people have heard of Pink Floyd but far fewer have heard of Syd Barrett even though he was a founding member of the band and heavily influential in Pink Floyd's early success. Today's special guest, Warren, explains how both Syd's presence and absence from Pink Floyd played critical roles in the band's history.

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The relatively new science of Zoopharmacognosy is all about the study of animals that self-medicate. This science covers a wide range of animals and an equally wide range of medicines from plants to insects to resin.

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Magic and witchcraft is a universal theme among myths and legends. In this episode we explore Egyptian, Eastern European, Greek, and even Christian witches.

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The Minoan civilization maybe some thing that you associate with Greek mythology, but we assure you it was entirely real. The civilization was anyways, not the Minotaur.

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Ticks can be found all over the world and there are many different species, so no matter where you are there is the possibility of a tick bite. Whichever tick you decide to hang out with, it's probably in your best interest to not get bitten by a black-legged one!

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A vast majority of inventors would be lucky to make a single world-altering invention. Thomas Midgley Jr. was lucky enough to do it twice. Unfortunately the inventions made him one of history's biggest one-man environmental disasters.

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What is the definition of culture? That is a tough question to answer, but one thing is for certain, dolphins have it. From the way they play and hunt to the way they talk, we cover a number of examples of culture in orcas and bottlenose dolphins.

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Last episode we discussed the history of calendars and this episode we approach the history of time keeping on a smaller scale. Has an hour always been the same length of time? When did keeping track of the time day become important? What are the six candles for? And what is a pennyweight anyways?

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We have made several attempts to track time and record the cycles of the moon and sun. Some systems were more accurate than others and some calendars don't even relate to celestial bodies, but all of them provide an interesting glimpse into the culture that used them at that time in history.

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