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[Truth or Fail]
Sweat sucking spiders supplementing salts
Polar bears follow sweaty paw paths in search for love
A new bacteria-infecting cure for extra stinky sweaty feet
[Trivia Question]
NASA’s ECOSTRESS measures evapotranspiration aka plant sweating
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/ecosystem-spaceborne-thermal-radiometer-experiment-on-space-station-ecostress
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/watching-plants-water-use-is-no-sweat-for-ecostress
[Fact Off]
Charles Blagden experiments with “super-sauna” that cooked steak but made humans sweat
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experiments-and-observations-in-a-heated-room-1774/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/106218?seq=1
https://royalsociety.org/about-us/who-we-are/history/
Antiperspirant made with propylene glycol that evaporates your sweat before it leaves the ducts
[Ask the Science Couch]
Non-water stuff in eccrine sweat (salt, urea, hormones, etc.)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6773238/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12817713/
https://www.penn.museum/sites/bulletin/1733/
https://ontarioarchaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/oa048-02_macdonald.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5941775/
Patreon bonus: Effects of stress/emotion on sweat composition and smell
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-2494.2007.00387.x
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9518869/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9246182/
[Butt One More Thing]
Treating hyperhidrosis in the perianal region with botox
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8436621/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11172190/
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