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Brain Junk

By: Trace Kerr and Amy Barton
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  • Brain Junk is an off-the-wall, totally unbelievable but true podcast where Amy Barton and Trace Kerr shake up science & history in the hunt for answers to questions you never knew you wanted to know. We bring you the inside scoop on things like: Can goldfish drive? How do whales not drown while eating? Who had the first prosthetic eye? We cannonball off the question high dive every Tuesday -- those of you in the front seats, bring your ponchos. We're out to flood your brain.
    © 2018 Amy Barton and Trace Kerr
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Episodes
  • 310: Smell-o-flage

    310: Smell-o-flage
    Apr 30 2024
    Nothing like rubbing yourself down with snakeskin jerky to keep yourself from getting eaten. Today we check out the parallel evolution of the California ground squirrel and rattlesnakes. It's an olfactory camouflage arms race that on a bad day, ends with someone getting eaten. Show Notes: UC Davis: Squirrels Use Snake Scent Royal Society B: Donning your enemy's cloak: ground squirrels exploit rattlesnake scent to reduce predation risk Nature: Squirrel Masks Scent with Rattlesnake Skin (Cool video of squirrels in action)
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    14 mins
  • 309: Middle of the Night Panic

    309: Middle of the Night Panic
    Apr 16 2024
    Nighttime waking and scattered thoughts are problem solving's evil twin. If you find yourself awake at 3 am obsessing over your problems, remember that stress and hormonal imbalances can really damage the quality of your sleep. Show Notes: IFL Science: Why Do We Wake Around 3am And Dwell On Our Fears And Shortcomings? VeryWellmind.com: Military Sleep method Science Direct: Molecular Clock US Southwestern University: Understanding the circadian clocks of individual cells Wikipedia: Suprachiasmatic nucleus NIH: Visual impairment and circadian rhythm disorders The New Yorker: The Woman who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave Benadryl and Alzheimer's possible link Transcript: [00:00:03] Speaker A: Welcome to Brain Junk, I'm Trace Kerr [00:00:05] Speaker B: And I'm Amy Barton. And today I'm gonna continue changing your lives because we've talked about how to up your personal hygiene game. And today I'm gonna tell you about why you wake up at 0
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    18 mins
  • 308: I’m Stuck on Band-aids

    308: I’m Stuck on Band-aids
    Apr 2 2024
    2024 is the 100th anniversary of Band-aids. But before they were the little strips in cool tins, they came in a roll you could cut to size. Show Notes: Johnson & Johnson history of Band-aids Wikipedia: Band-aid history Disposable America The Atlantic: The Story of the Black Band-aid TruColour Bandages Transcript: [00:00:03] Speaker A: Welcome to brain junk. I'm Amy Barton. [00:00:05] Speaker B: And I'm Trace Kerr. And I do have a cold. [00:00:08] Speaker A: Yes. [00:00:08] Speaker B: But today is everything you never knew you wanted to know about band aids. [00:00:13] Speaker A: I want to know many things. Did you buy picturey ones for your children, or were you kind of scroogey? [00:00:20] Speaker B: Here's the thing. I kind of felt like the picturey ones didn't have enough of the nick. I'm a fan of the fabricy ones because I feel like they stay on better. [00:00:32] Speaker A: Yeah, but. [00:00:33] Speaker B: Okay, so, 2024, I j
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    13 mins
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