A winding and rambling exploration of whether or not x-rays work on vampires via a discussion about tardigrades. Possibly our least hinged episode, but, listen, we had a good time and we hope you will too.

Note: In the interest of protecting Paige’s X-Men cred, she misspoke: Wolverine’s bones aren’t made of adamantium, but they are covered in adamantium.

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Our intro and outro music:

In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910)

Links:

Medieval Lions That Are Everything To Me

Murphy's Law (Colloquial)

Murphy's Law (Scientific)

X-Rays Overview

How Do X-Rays Work?

How Do X-Rays See Through Your Skin?

Tardigrades Overview

Radiation Tolerance in Tardigrades

A Computational Structural Study on Dsup

NASA: Water Bears in Space

"The Tardigrade Damage Suppressor Protein Modulates Transcription Factor..."