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Posted February 1, 2022
Crash Course Pods: The Universe
Ep. 1: The First Fraction of a Second
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Season 3 of Tangents is drawing to a close, and we're celebrating by taking a long, top to bottom (literally) look at bodies! To kick us off, we'll be appreciating that brain-holding, eye-having, mouth-possessing orb on top of almost all necks on Earth: the head. Thank you, the head!
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[Trivia Question]
Embalming head diameter
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0021929009001444?via%3Dihub
[Fact Off]
Chicken heads for rabies oral vaccines
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/12/that-time-europe-air-dropped-vaccine-loaded-chicken-heads-to-bait-rabid-foxes/417951/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1439-0450.1982.tb01237.x
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31927421/
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.500.9910&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614052/
Alligator stick hats
https://www.livescience.com/41898-alligators-crocodiles-use-tools.html
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/alligators-dont-play-pick-up-sticks-to-lure-lunch/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24750-zoologger-alligators-use-tools-to-lure-in-bird-prey/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Blood-brain barrier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4292164/
https://www.rndsystems.com/research-area/blood--brain-barrier-permeability
https://bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2377-9-S1-S3
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3494002/
[Butt One More Thing]
Amblyopsidae/cavefish head anus