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The 'Senses' series continues with tactile perception, aka touch. In part one we discuss tactile disorders, sensory illusions and haptics. Part 1 of 2. Music: "Feelin' No Pain" by Red Nichols Images  

Dr. Nina Quiskamp joins Toren, Joe, and Kevin as our Five(ish) Senses series continues with "Smell"! We'll talk about how plants can detect scents, smell in the animal kingdom, how our noses work,  various smelling dysfunctions and how one influenced Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, the smell of starvation and the stink of outer-space! Also, awful smells, landmine-sniffing rats, cancer-sniffing dogs and pop culture! Music: "Robot Stink" by The Invasives (http://invasives.bandcamp.com/) Images  

Joe, Toren, and Kevin continue the Five(ish) Senses series this week with Hearing. We'll cover how our bodies take in and process sound waves, the various causes of hearing loss, Hyperacusis, hearing in the animal kingdom, the Greater Wax Moth, Krakatoa, and noise pollution. Then it's on to the history of hearing aids, news, and pop culture! Music: "Sounds of Tindalos" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (http://www.thickets.net/) Images Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeTriGTENoc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yps7pgq1TAk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzo45hWXRWU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9c3GPEtGZg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nN1PekyYZ4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0AMKG31wME    

Our Five(ish) Senses series continues with the second part of "Taste". Kevin, Joe, and Toren look at taste in the animal kingdom, the dangers of bitter orange, miracle fruit, vomit fruit, Scientist/Taster Carl Wilhelm Sheele , what happened to French wine, breast milk ice cream and pop culture! Note: The mentioned bonus content will appear mid-week! Music: "There Ain't No Sweet Man (That's Worth the Salt of My Tears)" by Bix Beiderbecke & Bing Crosby Images Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX2Sc1BSMhM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO8V72pDw1o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6i5p8RbTCg

In the first of our multi-part series on the senses, Kevin, Toren, and Joe look at umami, Scoville Heat Units and the world's hottest peppers, Burning Mouth Syndrome, supertasters, plus the effect of vision on taste and the weirdness that is phenylthiocarbamide! Music: "If I Knew You Were Comin' Id've Baked A Cake" by Eileen Barton Images  

Toren, Joe, and Kevin are back with a look at the "collective delusions of threats", or mass hysteria, including the June Bug Epidemic, Tanganyika laughter epidemic, The West Bank fainting epidemic, The Dancing Plague, the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, plus news and a brief pop culture! Music: "Blackout" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (http://www.thickets.net/) Images

Nuclear Accidents continues with Three Mile Island, the Kyshtym Disaster, the Fernald Feed contamination, the SL-1 meltdown, the Soviet sub K-431 refueling disaster, the Zaragoza radiotherapy accident, Chernobyl and Fukushima, plus news and pop culture. Part 2 of 2 with special guespert Bob Apthorpe Music: "Crawl Out Through the Fallout" by Sheldon Allman Links * Echo Class II Submarine (http://weaponsandwarfare.com/?p=31850) Images  

Bob Apthorpe, nuclear engineer, defense waste cleanup & severe accident analyst, joins us to talk about nuclear meltdowns and other accidents involving radioactivity. We discuss scavenged radioactive materials recycled for building, the NRX Incident, the Windscale Disaster, as well as the crashed Soviet nuclear-powered satellite Kosmos 954 and Operation: Morning Light Music: "Radioactive Mama" by Sheldon Allman Images Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ4vtUzG6sQ

TRIGGER WARNING:  Some of the images and videos below are GRAPHIC, and of course the episode deals with suicide entirely. Dr. Rob joins Kevin, Toren, and Joe to talk about the act of taking your own life: suicide. We'll discuss the Werther effect, suicide statistics, methods and their consequences, Cato the Minor's intestinal fortitude, seppuku, Budd Dwyer's on-air suicide, Dr. Kevorkian's "Thanatron", the "Deliverance Machine", plus news and pop culture. Music: "Gloomy Sunday" by Billie Holiday Links * National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/) * Reddit's r/suicidewatch (http://www.reddit.com/r/suicidewatch) * Kaiju-a-gogo (http://kaiju-a-gogo.com/) * Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19) Images   This one (incomplete gun suicide) is pretty gory so we're hiding the thumbnail. You've been warned. (http://www.causticsodapodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/05/firearm-suicide-forehead-incomplete.jpg) Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gO7uemm6Yo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVm88MX2Gw4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2OPV6iuk2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Q8oM_AnK8

Jonathan Martin and the guys discuss diver's squeeze, the death of David Shaw, the "Diver's Cemetery," the Byford Dolphin diving bell accident, plus news and pop culture. Part 2 of 2. Music: "Stop and Breathe" by The Invasives. Buy their new album "Robot Stink" on iTunes or  http://invasives.bandcamp.com/ (http://invasives.bandcamp.com/) Images Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRC5R1jRO58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF4iFJ-G74o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V21qpZ2Y9IA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF4iFJ-G74o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhcF-Coc1J0

Diver extraordinaire Jonathan Martin joins us to discuss the types and hazards of diving, including decompression sickness (the "bends"), nitrogen narcosis, high pressure nervous syndrome, and isobaric counterdiffusion. Plus Rice Krispie neck, The Martini Effect and SHITTY JOBS: compressor diving. Part 1 of 2. Music: "I Threw A Kiss In The Ocean" Benny Goodman Images  

It's time for Kevin, Toren, and Joe to return to their Evil Dudes In History series, this time looking at Dennis "Bind, Torture, Kill" Rader. His bad spelling and grammar, dog euthanizations, and oh yeah, several horrible murders. Trigger Warning: Rape, Murder Music: "Please God No" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (http://www.thickets.net/) Less than a week left until the Lesser of Two Evils Marathon! Get your tickets now (https://www.causticgear.com/event/lesser-of-two-evils-marathon/)! Images (Note: Disturbing photos of BTK himself below are not victims! Still disturbing though!) Crime Scene and Autopsy Photos of Rader’s victims -- WARNING!! VERY GRAPHIC IMAGES: * Otero Family: http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-otero-family.htm (http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-otero-family.htm) * Kathryn / Kevin Bright: http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-kathryn-bright.htm (http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-kathryn-bright.htm) * Shirley Vian: http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-shirley-vian.htm (http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-shirley-vian.htm) * Nancy Fox: http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-nancy-fox.htm (http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-nancy-fox.htm) * Marine Hedge: http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-marine-hedge.htm (http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-marine-hedge.htm) * Vicky Wegerle: http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-vicky-wegerle.htm (http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-vicky-wegerle.htm) * Dolores Davis: http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-dolores-davis.htm (http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-dolores-davis.htm) Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCh_9Oe2OA8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SAwJoF1wvs

Hey Soda Jerks, Toren's got some information on our upcoming Live Lesser of Two Evils Marathon (https://www.causticgear.com/event/lesser-of-two-evils-marathon/), May 4th in Vancouver, BC at Seven Dining Lounge!

The wonderful world of leeches includes bloodletting, leech collectors, the tempest prognosticator, hirudotherapy, how to properly remove a leech, plus news and pop culture. Music: "Leeches" by Toren Atkinson Lyrics I heard you scream I tried to ask about it you had a dream You wouldn't talk about it I'm guessing you were down in the bog you're coming out to find its covered you with leeches back in the day of all the barber-surgeons not feeling great a sickness is emergin' well there was only one thing to do sit in the chair they're gonna cover you with leeches oh what a day can you even imagine you lost a thumb were gonna reattach it the clotting blood it gums up the works we'll get it out we're gonna cover you with leeches Images  

Dr Rob returns to talk about the terrible tumors - or at least the non-cancerous ones. Includes molar pregnancies, teratomas, fetus in fetu, gourmand syndrome, and -omas of all kinds. Music: "I've Found A New Baby" by Lionel Hampton Links * http://www.tumorlibrary.com/ (http://www.tumorlibrary.com/) * Teratoma Image Search (https://www.google.com/search?q=teratoma&tbm=isch) (WARNING: EW!) Images Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQpPeMGQv90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJyBy_cgTtA