Monster Month shambles on! This week: the living dead! We’re talking zombies, we’re talking Frankensteins, we’re talking skeletons. And by the end, things get downright poignant!
Also in this episode, an all time Hank hot take about ghosts. I’d love to hash that one out more, so be sure to hit him up on Twitter so we can all figure out why he thinks ghosts are alive…
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Brazilian Treehoppers
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-brazilian-treehopper-may-be-the-strangest-creature-5975761
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/what-is-a-brazilian-treehopper/
Cicada Wing Flicking
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-02/uoc-iot022218.php
Protective Ant Fungus
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/ps-tzf050212.php
[Fact Off]
Neochromosomes (Frankenstein’s monster chromosomes) & cancer
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/giom-ssm110514.php
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4905327/
https://www.nature.com/articles/515314b
https://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108(14)00373-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14493
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383574218300322
https://www.nature.com/articles/4401161
Glass knifefish brain transplant
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/njio-sb032420.php
https://news.njit.edu/simulated-frankenfish-brain-swaps-reveal-senses-control-body-movement
[Ask the Science Couch]
Trying to reanimate animal corpses
https://www.livescience.com/65542-zombies-real-resurrection-experiments.html
https://io9.gizmodo.com/real-life-scientists-who-meddled-with-life-and-death-5949176
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15595271/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003497500010912
Animal brains
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01216-4
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0006899374904788
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/168/3929/375
[Butt One More Thing]
Dead butt syndrome