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Probably Science
Episode 001 - Matt Kirshen, Brooks Wheelan, Andy Wood
Jan 24, 2012
Matt Kirshen, Brooks Wheelan, and Andy Wood discuss various topics in science, including comet close calls, speeding neutrinos, the Turing test, space junk, seals and kangaroos, the unintended climate consequences of Christopher Columbus, and the history of medical body dissections.
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- The shortage of bodies for medical research in the 1820s led to the infamous Burke and Hare case and changes in anatomy laws.
- The increasing amount of space debris poses a risk to space exploration, but there is a lack of global agreement on how to manage it.
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Burke and Hare: The Infamous Body Snatchers
In the 1820s, two men named Burke and Hare resorted to killing people to sell their bodies for dissection. The shortage of bodies for medical study led them to a life of murder and selling corpses. They were eventually caught and implicated in the deaths of 16 victims. The case shed light on the need for bodies for medical research and led to changes in the laws surrounding dissection and the acquisition of bodies.
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