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Speaker 1: Hey, every body, Welcome to Creature Feature, the show where

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Speaker 1: we crack open the heads of animals and humans and

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Speaker 1: get on that brain train with one way ticket to

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Speaker 1: explore the wildest behaviors and the human and animal kingdom. Dude, dude,

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Speaker 1: I'm your host of many parasites, Katie Golden. I studied

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Speaker 1: psychology and evolutionary biology, and I ate ants as a

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Speaker 1: kid because I thought aunt eaters were cool. Don't do

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Speaker 1: aunts kids. Today, we're going to bust some sorry almoston

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Speaker 1: finished on some copyright there. We're going to um, you know,

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Speaker 1: let me get out my thesaurus. We're gonna wallop some legend,

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Speaker 1: explode some old wives tales. We're gonna disable some fables

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Speaker 1: and contusion some illusions. So throughout history there have been

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Speaker 1: some pretty ridiculous animal myths. In eighteenth century Sweden, folklore

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Speaker 1: who would suck the milk drive from cows. In medieval Europe,

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Speaker 1: authors of b series thought weasels conceived through their mouths

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Speaker 1: think that maggots were spontaneously generated by meat or food

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Speaker 1: that had been left out until in sixteen sixty eight,

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Speaker 1: when Francesco Ready had the brilliant idea of testing rotting

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Speaker 1: meat in jars, covering some and leaving some open, and

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Speaker 1: found that, interestingly, the jars left open where flies landed

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Speaker 1: would start to generate maggots. He then observed the maggots

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Speaker 1: developing into flies and put two and two together. These

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Speaker 1: old myths may seem silly, but evolutionary biology is a

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Speaker 1: continually evolving field, and science has always been open to

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Speaker 1: new and contrasting information. So we're going to look at

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Speaker 1: some popular myths today, burst them wide open, and talk

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Speaker 1: about the truths that are even more fascinating than the

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Speaker 1: myths and the myths. Joining me today is co host

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Speaker 1: of Netificent, comedian, TV writer, and Goku apologist if he Wadaway, Hey,

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Speaker 1: how's it going great? Like my mizies, I think it's

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Speaker 1: great that they used to think weasels conceived through their

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Speaker 1: mouths and birth through their ears, because that's like, that's

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Speaker 1: like something like a five year old me would have

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Speaker 1: probably thought, like, you'd get pregnant by kissing and then

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Speaker 1: like the baby comes out of your ears. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: there's some like you know, Japanese like, uh, anime art

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Speaker 1: google that, turn that safe search on, although that's going

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Speaker 1: to help you. Yeah. No, uh yeah, I totally remember

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Speaker 1: of like why is there a meet in the jard

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Speaker 1: Oh there's maggots there? And then I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: this is a cool experiment. Yeah, I mean it's it's

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Speaker 1: sneaky they get in there. Yeah, they don't look like maggots,

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Speaker 1: so why would you think they're the same thing? All right,

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Speaker 1: So first I want to talk about Komodo dragons. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Andrea interested and there's a there's a big myth about

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Speaker 1: them that I think is but when you look at

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Speaker 1: just to catch everyone up, Komodo dragons are big, giant, enormous,

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Speaker 1: they're venomous. I was gonna say poisonous, but that's wrong. Well,

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Speaker 1: poisonous is ingested. Venom is contact or injected. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: Schenck uh documented wolf behavior and he observed wolves fighting

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Speaker 1: to think that our eyes worked by shooting beams out

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Speaker 1: of them until ten eleven, when Arab mathematician Hassan al

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Speaker 1: Hasan conducted experiments on the human eye and concluded that

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Speaker 1: instead of emitting rays, the eyes received light that bounced

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Speaker 1: off of objects, thus forming an image. Though you may

426
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Speaker 1: not have heard of him, he's one of the first

427
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 1: ever implementers of the scientific method, pipe centuries before Renaissance

428
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Speaker 1: scientists figured it out. There are still, to this day

429
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Speaker 1: plenty of misconceptions about the human mind and body. But

430
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Speaker 1: the thing is, sometimes the truth is even weirder than fiction,

431
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Speaker 1: as me and my guests are about to discover. Don't

432
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Speaker 1: you think it's crazy that like we don't know about

433
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Speaker 1: Hassan al Hazan, like, like I feel like, I mean,

434
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Speaker 1: it's probably part of the reason is our education is

435
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 1: pretty eurosick, like pretty western centric, like you know, Europeans,

436
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: we've discovered science that's not true. But yeah, it's like

437
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 1: he was one of the like ten eleven, ten eleven,

438
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: Like we hadn't even gotten into the teams yet, and

439
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 1: he discovered how the I functions and he used the

440
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: scientific method. It's pretty incredible. And this kind of ties

441
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Speaker 1: into the first thing I want to cover, which is

442
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Speaker 1: this fact that is often spread around that we only

443
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Speaker 1: use ten percent of our brains. Um, So have you

444
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: ever heard that? Yeah, there's so many premises as a nerd,

445
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 1: there's so many premises that are basic. That scar Jo movie. Yeah,

446
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 1: well you took the Limitless right, right, right? Right, scar Joe?

447
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:46,639
Speaker 1: She only uses ten percent of her brain? Am I right? Roasted? Um? Yeah,

448
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 1: but like in that movie, I think it's like she

449
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 1: gets a drug that let's her use a hundred percent

450
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 1: of her brain and then she becomes psychic? Is that right?

451
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,640
Speaker 1: That's always what it is for some reason? Right, It's

452
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 1: like as if somehow, if we used all of our

453
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Speaker 1: brain and we could somehow receive brain signals from other people?

454
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: Was it? Lucy, Lucy? That's right? That's right? Yeah? I

455
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: remember that. That drove me a little crazy. Like those

456
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: ads and what is the like because like you, you

457
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 1: know more about biology than the typical person. What what

458
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: are some like ads or premises that have made you

459
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 1: roll your eyes? I mean, that's that's a big one.

460
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Speaker 1: The ten percent of the brain being repeated ad nauseum um.

461
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: I think uh. I mean there's a lot of also

462
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: just pop psychology, where it's like, oh, women like this

463
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: because of this reason, or men like this because of

464
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: that reason. It's like, well, I mean, you know, like oh,

465
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Speaker 1: men like trucks because of some something way back in

466
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Speaker 1: our revolutions. Like I don't think they that tracks because

467
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Speaker 1: like there weren't trucks back so you can't necessarily strack

468
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: that to that level. Or like, uh, you know, the

469
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 1: like oh it's in our DNA is used pretty commonly.

470
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Speaker 1: It's like is it really I don't know if it is,

471
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 1: you have to prove it, um. But with the ten

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Speaker 1: percent of our brains thing is uh? I mean, what

473
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Speaker 1: is true is that at a given moment, maybe we

474
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Speaker 1: are only using like ten percent of our brain in

475
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Speaker 1: terms of it might only be firing. But that's not

476
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Speaker 1: like throughout the whole day, we'll be using all of

477
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Speaker 1: our brain to varying degrees depending on the task that

478
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Speaker 1: we're doing. Because imagine the alternative if like a hundred

479
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Speaker 1: percent of our brain was firing all at once, that

480
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Speaker 1: would basically be like some kind of crazy psychotic experience

481
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Speaker 1: where you just your brain explodes. Yeah, if I, if

482
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: I nerd it up a bit. Uh, the CPU was

483
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: your brain, the computer, and you put that under a

484
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: hundred percent load, you're going to fry that bad boy,

485
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: and you'll need to spend another large sum of them.

486
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Speaker 1: Every experience of motion and thought you could ever possibly have,

487
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: Like firing at once, That doesn't even make sense because

488
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: your brain doesn't really work just by I think. It's

489
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Speaker 1: not like you have certain information stored in your brain

490
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: that you just like turn on and turn off. It's

491
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: patterns of activation. So your neurons forming a pattern, um

492
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Speaker 1: where it's kind of a domino effect when you're on

493
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: fires and then like this domino effect of all these

494
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,479
Speaker 1: neurons firing in a pattern, and that it's that actual

495
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: pattern of activation that is the thought or the memory

496
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: or whatever. Um. So, uh, everything firing at once. I

497
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: don't even know if that would be a conscious experience.

498
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what that would be. Um. But so,

499
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: but we use all of our brain. It's not like

500
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Speaker 1: there's a part of our brain that just you know, crickets,

501
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: cobwebs doesn't get used. Um, According to Scientific American, this

502
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Speaker 1: fact may have come from historical psychologist William James, who wrote, quote,

503
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Speaker 1: we are making use of only a small part of

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Speaker 1: our possible mental and physical resources, which I don't think

505
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 1: that's uh. I'm not sure that's true, buddy. I mean

506
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: maybe for some of us, like uh, in general, like

507
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: when you think of a person's potential, but the human

508
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: it's not like the human body has hugely untapped brain

509
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: power that if only you took the right supplement, you

510
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: could get to um the muscles. It's it is true

511
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Speaker 1: that we there is more we can exert, Like we

512
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 1: hear about times where people's adrenaline goes and like you

513
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: can be triggered into your body working much more than

514
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: it usually does, like being able to lift something heavier

515
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: than you usually can't. That's true to some extent, But

516
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: it's not like, oh, if we could only tap into

517
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: of our body, would we would become like the Hulk,

518
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: except when he's smart. I guess, um, and uh, yeah,

519
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: so not true that we used in percent of our brain.

520
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: But here's the fact that to me is crazier and

521
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: it's completely true. It's called uni hemispheric slow wave sleep,

522
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 1: and that means you can turn off half of your brain.

523
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: One half of your brain is asleep and the other

524
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,479
Speaker 1: half is awake. When I say you, I don't mean you,

525
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: because this is only something animals can do. Um so. Uh.

526
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: Certain species of dolphins, whales, seals, sea lions, manatees, and

527
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 1: birds exhibit uni hemispheric slow wave sleep. So it's literally

528
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: one eye closed, one eye open, one half of the

529
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: brain off, and the other half of the brain on. Essentially,

530
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: I mean one half is asleep. It's not off off,

531
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: it's like a sleep. Um so. Uh. And with our

532
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: eyes and our brain, the hemispheres are actually kind of

533
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: mixed up, so like your right eye or your right

534
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: field of vision is connected to your left side of

535
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: your brain and vice versa. So when the right eye

536
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: is closed, the left side of the brain is asleep. Um.

537
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: And these animals, uh so why would they First of all,

538
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: I mean it is kind of intuitive why you'd want

539
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: to do that. And when I heard about it in

540
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 1: uh school, I was like, this is in college and

541
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: I was like, huh And so I would like close

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00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: one eye during lectures because I was so sleep Yeah,

543
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: I wonder if you can like close one eye uh,

544
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: like your left eye to sleep with your right eye

545
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: and then be really smart with your left braining. Yeah,

546
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: it didn't. It didn't work for me. Um. So for

547
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: sea mammals, the reason for this is pretty important. It

548
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: allows them to continue sleeping while still surfacing for air

549
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: because they have to breathe. They may look like fish,

550
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,959
Speaker 1: but they're not fish, so they gotta still breathe, and

551
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: so sleeping can present a problem for them when they

552
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: need to continually breathe, and so that half sleeping allows

553
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: them to surface and also to continue uh um swim

554
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: patterns and migration patterns while still kind of half sleeping.

555
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: Same thing for birds, so they can half sleep during

556
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: long migrations and still detect predators. Uh So, actually birds

557
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: can completely fall asleep while migrating, which blows my mind.

558
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: So they can go into slow wave sleep while uh

559
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: migrating over long distances and still navigate somehow. Um tesla's

560
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: that are driving us, you know, well grating and we'll

561
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: go to sleep. You know, they say not to do it, right,

562
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: don't do it. You don't do it. I mean, I

563
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: don't think the cars are there yet, right, They're not

564
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: like fully automated, so you have to you have to

565
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: be at the wheel. I think there was a story

566
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: about some guy who was like drunk in a Tesla

567
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: and like the Tesla just like parked him on the

568
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: Golden Gate Bridge or something, and like the cops came

569
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: up and he was like dead asleep and it's like

570
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: self driving. It's like and I think the car that

571
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: he had didn't even have the full self driving feature. Yeah,

572
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's still a work in progress. Do

573
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: over their updates, but yeah, there's there's been some like

574
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: sometimes it'll male function, right, but I'm waiting for those

575
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: like Honda mech legs that just like walk you places, um,

576
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: and then you could be asleep. Did you ever watch

577
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: Wallace and growmant very little? There was one where it's

578
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: like he's got these mechanized trousers because it's British, and

579
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,760
Speaker 1: then he's asleep and he's his upper torses just flopping

580
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: around while his like Mecca pants are walking him around.

581
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: Um right um. And so what's really cool about the

582
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: birds who do the do the half asleep thing is

583
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 1: that it's the birds, typically the birds on the edges

584
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: of the flock, who are sort of have to be

585
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: aware and birds will like switch positions and stuff, and

586
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: it's this kind of interesting communal situation. And so if

587
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: they're on the outer edge, half of their brain will

588
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: go asleep and one of their eyes will close, but

589
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: the eye that's facing outward will be open and alert

590
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: to predators. So say they're on like the right side,

591
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: their right eye will be open, left him sphere which

592
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: connects to the right eye will be asleep, so they

593
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: can stay alert to predators UM while they're flying in

594
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: there on that outside And so that's that's really cool. Uh.

595
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: And the way that they their brains can do this

596
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: is um acetal colline, which is a neurotransmitter that can

597
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: regularly brain activity and wakefulness. UM is withheld from their

598
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: sleep portion of the brain while still being present in

599
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: the away half. So it's like this neurotransmitter being selectively

600
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: released in different hemispheres of the brain. That's awesome. It's

601
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: really cool. I wish of the many superpowers you could

602
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 1: get if you were an animal, this is the one

603
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: I wish the most. Just half sleep. I tried so hard.

604
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: I really wanted it to be true. Like I would

605
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: close one eye and then it's like, am I resting?

606
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: I can't tell my my teeth hurt? Is that normal?

607
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: I was so sleep deprived in college. Um. Alright, so

608
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: here's another UM biology interesting thing, which also reminds me

609
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: of college. Is the thing of like, oh, women synchronize

610
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: their periods when their roommates or their friends and they

611
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: lived together. Have you heard this one? Yeah, I've heard

612
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: it too. It's uh, it's an off repeated thing being

613
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: a fact, and it's not um so UM. This is

614
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 1: based on I think a nine study UM where researchers

615
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: looked at a group of female college students and uh,

616
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: they the sample size was pretty small and it was

617
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,280
Speaker 1: only over like eight weeks, and they're like, these chicks

618
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: synchronize their periods. Don't you get a load of these games?

619
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: Actually the seventies, So what would they be These mamas

620
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: periods all sync up. Oh man, let me write this

621
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: down in the medical journal. Baby, they're somehow making their

622
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:03,240
Speaker 1: who has work together. Yeah, so that's not No study

623
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,760
Speaker 1: has been able to replicate that UM, and researchers today

624
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 1: point out the many methodological problems and small sample size

625
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: of the original studies. Uh so it's really probably not true.

626
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: So it's technically unconfirmed. Obviously it hasn't been proven to

627
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:25,240
Speaker 1: be negative necessarily, but there's no evidence that it's necessarily true.

628
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 1: Um and I think most likely if you I feel

629
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 1: like it's true anecdotally, it could be that, like, you know,

630
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: periods aren't it's not like every twenty eight days on

631
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 1: the dot like it kind of like shift around. So

632
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: you're going to have that occasional you know, synchronizations like

633
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: oh my god, our periods are like the same, We're

634
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: like twins. We're blood sisters. Blood sisters. Yeah, yeah, I

635
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: mean which is that would be metal. I'd love to

636
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: just be able to become blood sisters, but unfortunately it

637
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: has to be the old fashioned way where you do

638
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: human sacrifice anyways. Um, but uh, there is an animal

639
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 1: who does do this. Uh yeah, um, lionesses do synchronize

640
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 1: their periods. They are blood sisters, and more than this

641
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: is on one they are uh yeah, they like to

642
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: eat things. See that's you know, that's a deleted scene

643
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: from the Lion and surround are like like, are you

644
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 1: in a stress? Me too? We are coincidental. Yeah, there's

645
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: a lot we've talked about on the podcast. How inaccurate

646
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 1: the Lion King is man there would be so much

647
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,839
Speaker 1: more killing, a lot of killing. Um, I mean, there

648
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,800
Speaker 1: would be no way. So when Scar takes over the pride,

649
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: like he would kill all the cubs. So there's you know,

650
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: it's just And also it doesn't make sense that no, no,

651
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,280
Speaker 1: it just doesn't make sense. So you're saying they wouldn't

652
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: be enemies with hyenas that, well, I mean they would be.

653
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: Actually that part is true because hyenas and lions are

654
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 1: natural enemies because they are in the same sort of

655
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: niche in terms of their prey. So hyenas will hunt,

656
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: they're not just sick gavengers and and lions and hyenas

657
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 1: will both try to steal each other's prey, so it's

658
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,439
Speaker 1: not just like a parasitic relationship between hyenas and lines.

659
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 1: And lions will eat hyena cubs and hyena's we eat

660
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: lion cubs. Typically lions are the bigger jerks because they're

661
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: just literally bigger. But you know, you get enough hyenas,

662
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: you can overpower a lion. That's what I'm saying. You know,

663
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: that's that's exactly exactly that part true. Um. And actually, uh, hyena's,

664
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: like we've talked about before, they were a matriarchy, and

665
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: they have pseudo penises. They're really cool animals. Um. But

666
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: lionesses will synchronize their estrus. So um. Most animals other

667
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,320
Speaker 1: than humans and some primates don't really have periods in

668
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 1: the way that um human women do. I sounded, so

669
00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:01,720
Speaker 1: we're like such a weird human women. Show me your women,

670
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: the hemin female. Um, Yes, I love human women. What

671
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: why would you think that I'm from outer spice That

672
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: tender profile, It's like you don't It's like a trench

673
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: coat all the way up to their eyeballs hands Like, like,

674
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: I enjoy human women and their human body, and I

675
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 1: like their chest meats. Um. So by going into astros

676
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: at the same time, this allows them safety and numbers

677
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: for their cups, so their cubs all happen at the

678
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: same time. So statistically speaking, uh, some of them should survive.

679
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: So like, if a predator tries to pick off some

680
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:48,760
Speaker 1: of the cubs and you have this big group of cubs,

681
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,280
Speaker 1: like the likelihood that your cub is going to get

682
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: eaten not as much, which is a really touching thing.

683
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 1: They The nicer thing is they do it also so

684
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: they can communally raise the cubs, so they can babysit

685
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 1: and like they're all sort of in the same maternal

686
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: mood um and taking care of each other's cubs and

687
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:11,399
Speaker 1: and that's nice. Um, what's not so nice is that um,

688
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 1: one way that female lions go into estrus is when

689
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: their cubs are killed. So if a new male takes

690
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: over the pride. And as we've talked about on the

691
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: podcast before, prides aren't really a patriarchy, although they're kind

692
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 1: of seen that way in in popular culture. It's like

693
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: the the core group of lions is typically females that

694
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: have passed on from generation to generation. So uh, you

695
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: could look at it as a matriarchy in that way.

696
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: I mean, it's true that the males do assert their

697
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: dominance and by killing all the cubs when they take

698
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: over a pride, but it's like it's kind of like,

699
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 1: you know, they get this new lion leader, like not

700
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: a leader though, because like the female lions kind of

701
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: control the pride throughout the many many years the males

702
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: come and go, it's females that form the core of

703
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: the pride um and so uh uh, it's just like

704
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: it's they're so cool, these these super metal lioness's blood

705
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: sisters synchronizing their periods. Uh, like interesting deeper story like

706
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: what if the Lion King was less about this, you know,

707
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: exchange of power between the men, but these men who

708
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: come and go. But one lioness loved one cup so

709
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 1: much that she hid it from the new lion. Now

710
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,760
Speaker 1: he's growing up with these cups that are not his brothers.

711
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: I really like that idea. That's awesome. I mean that

712
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: see that would be a much better movie. Um. I

713
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 1: mean if they remade Lion King, why not do you

714
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: just remake it, do a new plot, don't show us

715
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 1: uncanny valley lions? Yeah? Um, but yeah, I would love

716
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: to see some biologically accurate animal movies because the reality

717
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: is so much cooler. And like you said it, it

718
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 1: would you could have a much more interesting plot. Like

719
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 1: that's almost like what is it? Um, that's almost like

720
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: the Moses plot of like you know, putting it's like

721
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: a Moses lion. So instead of cribbing from Hamlet, like

722
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: crib from Moses. Um. Yeah, that'd be really cool. Um.

723
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: And so one one method that they used to synchronize

724
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 1: their estrus is potentially pheromone signals. They like smell each other.

725
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,879
Speaker 1: It's like you want to have babies, I'll join you

726
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,240
Speaker 1: just want to go to brunch and have some babies.

727
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: So here's another um claim that, UM, I don't know,

728
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 1: I've kind of not heard it before. I actually found

729
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,399
Speaker 1: this on Snopes. Um, but I think I've heard things

730
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: similar to it, which is that the human body replaces

731
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 1: itself entirely every seven years. Have you heard this one before, right? Yeah, exactly,

732
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: Like I've heard similar stuff like, oh, you know your body,

733
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: like every cell in your body is replaced, and so

734
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,359
Speaker 1: you're like a like the ship of theseus thing where

735
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, are you really used since we were

736
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: place all of our cells and such. But um, it's

737
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: it's kind of a mixture of myth. In fact, so

738
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: um uh cells do that. It makes a lot of

739
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: sense though, Why why people would think that the entire

740
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,280
Speaker 1: body is replaced Because cells do die, It's a process

741
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: called apoptosis, and then they regenerate through cell division. Um

742
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: and uh. Some cells can um kind of renew very rapidly,

743
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: like skin cells. Um. And the seven years figure may

744
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: have come from a study that found that the average

745
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: age of a cell in the human body is around

746
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: seventy ten years old. Um, which is kind of like

747
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: crazy to think about. Like, wait, I'm only seven years old.

748
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 1: I knew it was okay to like Power Rangers A

749
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 1: bunch of brownies feel very vindictive. Um, but that's just

750
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 1: an average and uh, you know average is is not

751
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: It's not like most cells are like this. It's like

752
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: you have um cells, some cells regenerating extremely quickly, like

753
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: from days to weeks. UM. Like epithelial cells, which is

754
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 1: like skin cells lining of the stomach especially that regenerates

755
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: very quickly because of the acidity of the stomach. UM. Organs,

756
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 1: blood vessels uh also have epithelial cells that regenerate more

757
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 1: quickly than other cells in the body. Uh. And then

758
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 1: other cells like connective muscle and nervous cells last much longer.

759
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:30,399
Speaker 1: And and bone also lasts quite long um so um

760
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: often like I think bone has replaced every seventeen years

761
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: ish um and Uh the average age for non epithelial

762
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: cells around fifteen years old. UM. But some cells last

763
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 1: way longer, I mean, like your entire life. So certain

764
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: cells were born with and we'll die with Like these

765
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: cells inside the center of our islands were actually born

766
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 1: with that, and we'll die with that. And then our

767
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: brain matter is a little younger than that lens cells

768
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: because we are developing our brains really rapidly when we're

769
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: a little like until two years old, it's like you

770
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: have this massive and I mean, obviously the brain continues

771
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: to develop after that, but we generated a bunch of

772
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 1: this new tissue, uh and then um, so that but

773
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 1: the brain tissue on average, and I think it's like

774
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: they measured tissue inside the cerebellum and they found it

775
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 1: was about as old as the individual. Um. And but

776
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: there are certain parts of the gray matter that uh

777
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: does regenerate more quickly. Um. But you know, so basically

778
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 1: some of our body does regenerate really quickly, some of

779
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: it regenerates more slowly, and then certain cells are going

780
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: to be there basically for our entire lives. Um. Which

781
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 1: and it makes sense to me that the brain, I

782
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 1: think is one of the more constant ones. Um. It

783
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 1: is still crazy that it isn't necessarily like you're not

784
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: born with your entire brain and then you die with

785
00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: your same brain, which is a little bit key. But

786
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: it isn't like like your brain is completely new from

787
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:06,840
Speaker 1: like seven years ago. It's uh, you know, parts of

788
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 1: it are going to be basically the same once your

789
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: brain stops growing until you die. Um. Yeah, and you

790
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: stop developing brain cells at a certain age, right right, Yeah,

791
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: Like you're not going to grow a bunch of new

792
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: brain cells. Um. The main changes is the neural plasticity,

793
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: where it's not so much that you grow new cells

794
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: but your brain. Um that the cell the neural pathways

795
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: that form in your brain can change throughout your life.

796
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: Obviously they have to, otherwise you would never be able

797
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: to form new memories or learn anything new. Um. So

798
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: you can. Your brain can change throughout your entire life. Obviously,

799
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:45,240
Speaker 1: the greatest changes are from age zero to like twenty

800
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:48,280
Speaker 1: five ish. But you know, your brain continues to change

801
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: throughout your life. But the cells themselves mostly um, stay

802
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: the same once you've reached a certain age, and some

803
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 1: parts of the brain, some parts of the brain or

804
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: generating more quickly. Um. But here's uh, there is an

805
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:05,800
Speaker 1: animal that is basically like a Benjamin Buttons where it

806
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:12,320
Speaker 1: can completely regenerate. Um. And it is the immortal jellyfish. Yeah.

807
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: So these are teeny tiny cute jellyfish found in the

808
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 1: Mediterranean and Sea of Japan. They're about like the size

809
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: of a fingernail um and uh they along with a

810
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 1: couple of other jellyfish species who are dumb and I'm

811
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: not gonna kidding. I think there's like the moon jelly.

812
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: There's a moon jelly species that also does this, but

813
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,840
Speaker 1: they can revert back into a polyp, which is like

814
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: the baby form of the jellyfish, and then become reborn um.

815
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: So this is called reverse metamorphosis ums bingebin buttons, where

816
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 1: they uh, turned back into a polyp and then that

817
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 1: polyp turns back into an adult um. So biologists liking

818
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: it to a chicken that turn into an egg and

819
00:48:55,760 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 1: then that egg hatches a new chicken UM. And to

820
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: accomplish this, it goes through cellular trans differentiation UM, which

821
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: sounds like, you know, full metal Alchemists. You know that right? Wait,

822
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:13,320
Speaker 1: what's the anime? Is it? Full is full Metal Alchemist

823
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:17,359
Speaker 1: a anime? Yeah? Okay, I'm getting it confused with full

824
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: metal Jacket? Yeah yeah, which is a Stanley Kubrick. Yeah yeah,

825
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 1: full metal Alchemists. Like maybe they try and transmute different things.

826
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: How he gets his little brother trapped in that suit

827
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: of armor. Yeah that's right, and like he gets a

828
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:34,879
Speaker 1: new hand, but it's a man out of his dead mom.

829
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:38,319
Speaker 1: Is that right? Okay? Yea too deep into it, but

830
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 1: I think it's very dark and bleak, right, um, But

831
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: it sounds like something from from that anime. But it's

832
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: uh where one cell type is converted into another cell type,

833
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 1: like a skin cell becoming a neural cell um and

834
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 1: humans like basically only stem cells do this, um and

835
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: we don't. It seems like they're so cool, the fact

836
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: that they can turn into babies and then regrow into

837
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: adults and do this potentially indefinitely until they're a snack

838
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:12,760
Speaker 1: for something else. We don't actually know that much about them,

839
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:15,800
Speaker 1: Like we haven't studied them that thoroughly because they're really

840
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: hard to cultivate in a lab. In fact, from one

841
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 1: article I read, there's only one scientist who has been

842
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 1: able to reliably grow them in a lab. His name's

843
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:29,280
Speaker 1: Shin Kubata of Japan, and he's like in this tiny

844
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 1: office and growing these miraculous jellyfish and he's got very

845
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: little funding and he just does it because he thinks

846
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: it's really important. That's so there's something like really mysterious

847
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: about this, this one man who knows how to grow

848
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: these and is trying to study them and basically is

849
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: one of the few people who can nurture these. And

850
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: he is funny when he talks about them, like he

851
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 1: kind of he's like he's really proud of them, Like,

852
00:50:56,120 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: there my little babies, little guys, a little immortal guy. Yeah,

853
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 1: you would think that an elon musk would be injecting them.

854
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: It was a bloodstream to try to be yeah, what

855
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 1: if we Yeah, what what if that? We have that ability?

856
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:15,439
Speaker 1: But with those parameters like you can you can regenerate

857
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,319
Speaker 1: your body, but you you don't have to go back

858
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,759
Speaker 1: to a baby. It's almost to me, at what point

859
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: is right? At what point is that just like when

860
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 1: we have kids, you know, because wouldn't you be I

861
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 1: guess it depends on how much like of a you know,

862
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 1: biological essentialist here you are. But I feel like we

863
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,439
Speaker 1: are not. We're not just what we're born with. We're

864
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: all the experience we've had, you know. It's nature and

865
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:45,000
Speaker 1: nurture kind of working together to create you as a human.

866
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,439
Speaker 1: So I feel like at that point it wouldn't even

867
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 1: though maybe your body would be immortal, your mind wouldn't

868
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 1: like you once you revert back to a child, or

869
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: an embryo, that would be you dying essentially, even if

870
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: you're reborn again, that would be a new person sen

871
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: in my opinion, um, just based on I think because

872
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:07,399
Speaker 1: we're we're a pretty special animal in terms of how

873
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 1: much we can learn and how flexible our brains are.

874
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 1: But I think that also means that we're kind of

875
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 1: some of our experiences in our environment, and then that

876
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: is who we are. And that's why you know, when

877
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: you have a brother or sister who's very close to

878
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: you genetically, they can be super different. Um. And like

879
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:30,800
Speaker 1: or you know a child who's you know, maybe similar

880
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: to you biologically, but they're you know, going to be

881
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 1: really different because they have different experiences. Mm hmm. That's

882
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 1: very interesting. Yeah. Like I said before, sometimes the truth

883
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 1: is actually wilder than myth, and what you might think

884
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: of as myth collides with science. In the monasteries of

885
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: eastern Tibet, Buddhist monks practice g tunnel meditation, a technique

886
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: that is legendary for increasing the body heat even drying

887
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 1: wet sheets wrapped around the monks bodies as they meditate

888
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 1: in the freezing Himalayas. But is there any truth to

889
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:12,239
Speaker 1: this researchers and monks well practiced in forceful breath g

890
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 1: tumma meditation put it to the test, the scientific test,

891
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: and found that by meditating in this way, they were

892
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:23,240
Speaker 1: able to increase their body temperature even up to mild

893
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: fever levels. And more interestingly, it wasn't just the breathing

894
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: that was important. The mental visualization of the g tumma

895
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: meditation technique was important in enabling the meditators to continue

896
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 1: breathing properly and to keep their body temperature up. So

897
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: I want you to visualize this podcast returning after a

898
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:49,239
Speaker 1: short break. Breathe in and breathe out. We'll be right back.

899
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Speaker 1: Welcome to who wants to be a Millionaire? That is

900
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:01,479
Speaker 1: the owner of a million spiders. I'm your host Meal

901
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: extra Bark. So if I want to play play a

902
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 1: little game title I want to lose, I don't want,

903
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:17,919
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna ask you some questions about animals and

904
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:22,919
Speaker 1: reel some unexpected truths. Perhaps um all right, and it's

905
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:26,760
Speaker 1: going to be about like what you think the characteristics

906
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:30,919
Speaker 1: of these animals are. So question number one is who

907
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 1: do you think has more eyes? Spiders, scallops or scorpions?

908
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 1: Do do do do? Do? Do do? Is that helping do?

909
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 1: Because I think spiders. But based on the premise of

910
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:53,399
Speaker 1: this game, I'm gonna say scallops, you are correct. So

911
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:57,760
Speaker 1: spiders have zero to twelve eyes. There are some spiders

912
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 1: who are eyelis, like the blind huntsman spider of Louse

913
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:05,320
Speaker 1: and the blind cave wolf spider of Hawaii. Uh. Scorpions

914
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: similarly have about zero to twelve eyes. Same thing. Some

915
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:10,800
Speaker 1: of them don't have eyes, some of them have twelve eyes.

916
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:16,560
Speaker 1: But scallops have up to a hundred eyes. So here

917
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: I want to show you this picture. It's pretty beautiful.

918
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 1: Oh that is extremely terrified. I think it's kind of neat.

919
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 1: So you see all those little blue dots, Those are

920
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 1: all a bits eyeballs. So they have from tint to

921
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: a hundred eyes. The scalp is found all over the

922
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 1: world in our oceans, on our plates, if you know

923
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 1: what I mean. Um, but imagine this next time you're

924
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:45,880
Speaker 1: eating a scalop. They just have hundreds of eyeballs. Um.

925
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:49,359
Speaker 1: They can actually swim around by opening and closing their

926
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:54,560
Speaker 1: valves there by valves, meaning they got two valves. Uh.

927
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: And um, they have these eyes which tend to be

928
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 1: brilliant blue. They look like little blueberries, but hundreds of them,

929
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:06,839
Speaker 1: and they're all staring at you. Um. So their eyes

930
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:09,879
Speaker 1: are actually really interesting because they don't have lenses like

931
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:14,480
Speaker 1: most animals. Um. Instead, they have a concave mirror made

932
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: out of guanting. And if guanting sounds familiar, that's the

933
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: same protein found in DNA. But guanting crystals can form

934
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 1: this like shiny um substance that uh, it's actually found

935
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 1: in like on the skin of like chameleons and another things.

936
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 1: But it can actually turn their eyes into these tiny telescopes.

937
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 1: So these guanting crystals form a mirror, uh, and that

938
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: mirror focuses light inside of the eye, like you know,

939
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 1: you've seen the giant mirror for the herbal telescope, and

940
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: you know how that helps redirect and focus the light.

941
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,799
Speaker 1: Works the same way for the scallop. And although their

942
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:57,720
Speaker 1: eyes can't make out distinct shapes, they can accurately since

943
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: changes in the environment, like changes in light and dark

944
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:03,760
Speaker 1: in a shadow passing over them, and even like different

945
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 1: water conditions, So they know like how to evade predators,

946
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 1: or where to swim to find food, or or whether

947
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:12,839
Speaker 1: they need to avoid some poor water conditions. Um, and

948
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: we don't know much about the scalop brain, but uh,

949
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: like like what's happening from the eyes to the brain.

950
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 1: But I don't think they're very smart. Um, so it's

951
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 1: it's but it is interesting that they're just lined with

952
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:31,920
Speaker 1: all of these kind of like century eye eyeballs. Yeah,

953
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: it looks um, it looks very I guess like David Lyncheon,

954
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:42,800
Speaker 1: he's he's like the alien guy, right, yeah, with all

955
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: the like weird mouth tentacles and eyeballs and uh yeah,

956
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,280
Speaker 1: just think about that. Next when you get one of

957
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: those nice Gordon Ramsey scalops on a plate, yep, just

958
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:59,480
Speaker 1: like how I know, like when I eat like crayfish,

959
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 1: it's like a little little tiny eyebow stare up at

960
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 1: me like why it's really hard? Um? All right, Next question,

961
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 1: which animal can grow a proper handlebar mustache? Horses, Banobo's

962
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: or the bornean bearded pig? Dude, do do do do do? Horses? Yes,

963
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 1: you're wow, you're too. I just saw a viral Twitter

964
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 1: image of horses with mustaches and this one. Yes, yes,

965
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 1: so the Gypsy Vanner Hort draft horse of Ireland can

966
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 1: grow luxurious mustaches and there. They really just look like

967
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: a human mustache. Paste it on a horse with no exaggeration. Um.

968
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: Usually that's because like the owner styles it a little bit,

969
00:58:56,600 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: like if you leave it just to grow, it turns

970
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:01,840
Speaker 1: into this big mop. But the owner will like trimming,

971
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:04,200
Speaker 1: you know, like curl it. It just like looks like

972
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 1: a little you know, one of those eighteen hundreds mustaches.

973
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 1: All all these guy named Bartholo Mule. That's one dastardly

974
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 1: horse pencil mustache. Um. Bobo's actually don't have mustaches, um,

975
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:28,760
Speaker 1: although they are one of our closest primate relatives. UM.

976
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: The bornean bearded pig actually grow reverse mustaches. So they

977
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:37,439
Speaker 1: grow a bunch of hair above their nose. Well that's

978
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 1: very weird. Yeah, yeah, they like grow this bristly hair.

979
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 1: That's like imagine, you know, like the bridge of your nose.

980
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 1: Imagine if you just grew a band of hair from

981
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 1: the bridge of your nose all the way around your chin.

982
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 1: That's the worst. Go that's that's a the worst than

983
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 1: Guy Fiory, though definitely worse imagine though like with like

984
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 1: must it all over it still worse. I mean, okay,

985
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: then that's worse all right, last question and This is

986
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 1: actually inspired by uh someone, so I asked on Twitter

987
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 1: for some questions from people this. Madeline sent in a question. Um,

988
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 1: but first I'm going to ask you which of these

989
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: animals poop in cube shapes? Is it the naked male rat,

990
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 1: the wombat, or bees. I'm gonna guess bees. You are incorrect,

991
01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:40,760
Speaker 1: you almost got um. So it is actually the wombats

992
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:46,080
Speaker 1: uh and they are of Australia, and I'm just dangerous.

993
01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:51,000
Speaker 1: They look like brownies. They do a little wombat brownies

994
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 1: worse than accidentally eating weed brownies, even worse if the

995
01:00:57,240 --> 01:01:03,280
Speaker 1: wombat ate weed and you um so. Uh. The question

996
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 1: from Madeline is why how is wombat poop cube shaped?

997
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:11,840
Speaker 1: Are there other animals with similar scat um and so,

998
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:13,640
Speaker 1: as far as I know, this is the only animal

999
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:18,919
Speaker 1: that creates poop shaped cubes cube shaped poop either way?

1000
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 1: Um and I did a little research on this. Uh.

1001
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 1: There's actually the conception, here's another myth that they poop

1002
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 1: and cube so that the poop doesn't roll down hills,

1003
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 1: so that they can mark their territory. I don't think

1004
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:34,280
Speaker 1: there's actually evidence that this is true. Again, it hasn't

1005
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 1: been like proven falls. It's just so I read one

1006
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:41,479
Speaker 1: um biologist who studied wombats. He's like, they just poop

1007
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:43,959
Speaker 1: wherever they poop, where they they poop. The cube shape

1008
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:48,560
Speaker 1: isn't necessarily for marking their territory. And recently there's research

1009
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:52,440
Speaker 1: by bodily fluids expert Patricia Yang and her colleagues at

1010
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:58,280
Speaker 1: the Georgia Institute of Technology in the US. You know, UM,

1011
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 1: so they shipped in in UH wombats from Australian These

1012
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 1: were actually road kill wombats because it's you can't like

1013
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:10,560
Speaker 1: it's hard to source wombats, um, and so they ship

1014
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 1: them in from Australia. They examine their intestines and they

1015
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 1: found um that the cube shape is probably due to,

1016
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 1: first of all, how dry the feces are. So um

1017
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 1: wombats are living pretty dry environments. They have to preserve

1018
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 1: a lot of moisture, so they suck a lot of

1019
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 1: the water content out of the poop as it goes

1020
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 1: through their intestines. UM, and that allows it to maybe

1021
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:35,800
Speaker 1: be shaped into that more brick like UH shape. But um.

1022
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:39,439
Speaker 1: One of the way the mechanism of forming it into

1023
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 1: cubes is they tested the elasticity of the intestines and

1024
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 1: most intestines have a pretty uniform elasticity, but with wombats

1025
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 1: they have these two ridges that are more elastic than

1026
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:53,520
Speaker 1: the other parts of the intestines. So they almost formed

1027
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:56,240
Speaker 1: these like pockets where they like I guess, kind of

1028
01:02:56,320 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 1: get like slide around and get squished in to like

1029
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:05,160
Speaker 1: a cube shape. Hands man out of intestines squishing them

1030
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:08,840
Speaker 1: into here you go. Um. So there they might be

1031
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: poop crucibles for making the square poop um, and so

1032
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:17,440
Speaker 1: that there you go. That's why I want bat is

1033
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 1: poop is cube shaped? And how it happens? Um. I

1034
01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:24,080
Speaker 1: didn't know I needed an answer for well, and now

1035
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: you do, and now you can all that sleep you've

1036
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 1: been missing. It's because deep down you needed this answer exactly.

1037
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:32,120
Speaker 1: It's question answer. No longer have to try and sleep

1038
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:37,480
Speaker 1: with one eye exactly exactly. Thank you so much for

1039
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:39,840
Speaker 1: joining me. Do you want to talk a little bit

1040
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:43,720
Speaker 1: about your podcast, Nerdifice got anything to plug? Oh? Yeah,

1041
01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 1: so Nerdificent. Uh you know, it's with me and Danny Fernandez.

1042
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:49,960
Speaker 1: We do nerdy deep dives into topics and have a

1043
01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:52,080
Speaker 1: guest on and talk about their experience with it. It's

1044
01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 1: very casual, very fun. It's a you know, it's a

1045
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:57,960
Speaker 1: nerdy podcast for everyone, whether you you know, just got

1046
01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:01,440
Speaker 1: interested because you saw the new Apen Marvel, or if

1047
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:03,520
Speaker 1: you've been a long time person and you'd like to

1048
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:08,080
Speaker 1: reminisce over you know, the good old times. And also

1049
01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 1: I do a podcast called Who Shots You. It's a

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Speaker 1: movie podcast with maximum fun where we you know, it's

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Speaker 1: just a it's a movie podcast that isn't just white dudes. Yeah. Um.

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Speaker 1: But besides that, if you Wadyway on Twitter and Instagram,

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Speaker 1: if he's on Twitch, if you like to watch people

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Speaker 1: play video games, and you know, just come hang with

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Speaker 1: what's your favorite like animal themed superhero? Oh, black Panther? Yeah, Nancy,

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Speaker 1: because you know, I had the bonus of being an

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Speaker 1: African superhero, Nigerian American. I was like, yeah, weirdly, comic

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Speaker 1: books are kind of white nails. Yeah, so not only

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Speaker 1: you know, not only that we got Black Panther, you've

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Speaker 1: got them pretty early too. He came out like a

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Speaker 1: year after Spider Man, and you actually came out before

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Speaker 1: the Black Panther party. Oh wow, I didn't know that

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Speaker 1: the Panther the superhero existed before the party. So like

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Speaker 1: the imagine that Hughey was at the comic book Stayings like,

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Speaker 1: huh secretly a nerve? Yeah, well that's awesome. So did

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Speaker 1: you You mentioned where people can find you on Twitter? Awesome.

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Speaker 1: You can find us uh, Creature feature pod dot com

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, Creature Feature Pod on Twitter, Creature feat Pod,

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Speaker 1: f t Don't Don't Do t um and you can

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Speaker 1: find me at Katie Golden And I'm also at pro

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Speaker 1: bird Rites where I am definitely a human and not

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Speaker 1: a bird. Oh I saw your account the other day. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's very it's very funny. Yeah, thank you. It's it's

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Speaker 1: pretty silly. It's got a lot of misspellings which are

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Speaker 1: totally on purpose. Thank you guys so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: If you're liking the pod, you can help support us

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Speaker 1: subscribing and all that good stuff. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: I'll see you next Wednesday. Bye, and thanks to the

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Speaker 1: Space Colssics for their awesome song Exo Lumina