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Special guests Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin from Secretly Incredibly Fascinating and Creature Feature answer: Have birds ever been to space?  Why does Katie love birds so much?  And how did Alex bring about the bison emoji to everyone's phones?Things we Talk About:The Quails in Space video we watched over and overThe Club Winged Manakin's "Call"Katie's Snoopy ComicsSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:07:13) Space Birds(00:38:46) Birds & Bison Emoji(00:54:59) OutroWe also learn about: Birds have home field advantage here, DIY animal behavior major, baby elephant soccer coach, a big podcast stew, why can’t birds just fly to space, we all share one brain cell, the Karman line, Ruppell's griffon vulture once flew into a jet engine, or rather the engine ate the bird, vultures are actually clean birds, high altitude vultures have blood adaptations, don’t dope vulture blood, USA lost the birds in space race, space farming, cloacal docking with the ISS, the quails in space video breaks us, who will teach the first generation of space quails? Chernobyl birds, stop doing unjustified wars and send chernobyl birds to space, Chix in Space, Katie wants to put a hummingbird in space, Canadian goose alien, Katie’s childhood Wile E Cayoe trap, birds relatable alien adorably arrogant dinosaurs, club winged manakin stridulation calls, Alex’s 18 page bison proposal, bird aliens return to the feet of a bison emoji statue, how Katie met Alex, Katie’s Peanuts comics, all great friendships start with an amazing bit.Sources:Audubon: The Amazing Story of the Cold War Space-Egg RaceAudubon's Initially Mistaken Blog on Space BirdsSmithsonian on Bird Flight HeightSmithsonian Zoo on Ruppell's Griffon VultureNasa on the Edge of SpaceCornell Bird Lab on Japanese Quail

How long have we been searching for Gravitational Waves?  What is the loneliest animal, and what does it mean to be lonely?  And what really makes graffiti... graffiti?Support us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:04:26) Gravitational Waves(00:41:01) The Loneliest Animal(01:14:17) Graffiti(01:45:21) OutroWe also learn about: Invisible ripples in spacetime that move at the speed of light and squeeze and stretch spacetime, Aristotle would have lost his mind at gravitational waves, Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravity is bends in spacetime, Einstein’s 1915 prediction, gravitational waves are stupid… unless? pulsars are cosmic lighthouses, binary pulsars are two bowling balls dropped in a lake that we think are big enough to ripple to our shore, Einstein predicted them and then we found them, I found a math drawing in space, LIGO finding gravitational waves 100 years after Einstein’s theory, thank you Yano, gravitational waves click with Caroline, LIGO can measure 1/10,000th the width of a proton, measuring the collision of 2 black holes 1.3 billion years ago, International Pulsar Timing Array, the hum of the universe, the background hum of hundreds of thousands of black holes merging, hypothetical one dimensional cosmic strings, i thought you said this was silly, have you ever been alone in a crowded room, "I want to know what loneliness is to you Ella”, the elusive snow leopard, “just tell me how snow leopards fuck Caroline”, lonely ants live 11 times shorter, giving mirrors to make cows less lonely, the song of the Kauai Oo, lonesome George sold out, Albert the Albatross’s theme song, Albie the Albatross, finding 52 Blue the whale from declassified hydrophones, capitalism isolates animals too! are we projecting and processing loneliness onto conservation, Tom’s contractual Carly Rae Jepsen mention, graffiti used to only mean ancient graffiti, farts for the old man, I am Hiyya! Lysias is Handsome, is graffiti art? Kilroy was here, Faulkner wants to write a Kilroy was here, remember the writer and the reader and me, transient and permanent graffiti, NYC Subway Graffiti, “How did they do that?!”, graffiti as high art, Ivan + Hayley, local graffiti, Taki 183, Warren Robinett’s Atari graffiti, fuck you I was hereSources:LIGO: What are gravitational waves?The History of Gravitational WavesPulsarsWhat is LIGOLIGO 2015 DiscoveryCosmic ChirpsNANOGravInternational Pulsar Timing ArrayPulsar Timing ArraysThe NANOGrav 15 yr Data SetCosmic Strings---Snow Leopard Trust2022 Paper: Neurobiology of Loneliness, Isolation, and Loss: Integrating Human and Animal Perspectives2015 Paper: Social Isolation Causes Mortality by Disrupting Energy Homeostasis in Ants2019 Paper: Can Access to an Automated Grooming Brush and/or a Mirror Reduce Stress of Dairy Cows Kept in Social Isolation?Forbes: Companion Parrots May Be Less Lonely When They Phone Their Feathered FriendsGalapagos Conservancy: Lonesome GeorgeSmithsonian: Spix’s MacawThe  Call of the Kauai OoBBC: No Romance for Lovesick AlbatrossRSPB: The Black-browed Albatross, Albie, at RSPB Bempton CliffsThe Guardian: Albie the AlbatrossNOS: Why Do Whales Make Sounds?Smithsonian: Maybe the World’s Loneliest Whale Isn’t So Isolated, After AllThe Guardian: The Search for the Loneliest Whale in the WorldPBS: Ship Noises Mute the Songs of Humpback Whales2018 Paper: Change in Singing Behavior of Humpback Whales Caused by Shipping Noise---UCL Jeanine Ancelet on History of GraffitiPenn Museum on Mayan GraffitiASOR on Ancient Near East GraffitiSmithsonian Mag on Pompeii GraffitiIAS on the Athenodoros GraffitiBoston College Pompeii Graffiti TranslationMuseum of Cycladic ArtTim O Gorman on KilroyWilliam Falkner at UVA Q&A TranscriptHistory of American Graffiti Authors on PBSColosseum GraffitiHarvard International Review on BanksyNYT Interview with Taki183Adam Clayton's Letter to AtariRobinett on Adventure Easter EggWired Interview with Robinett

How complicated is trying to scientifically study gender? Why does it feel like water get discovered on Mars every other month? And what's so great about these pigeons I see everywhere?Images we talk about:The Brain Gender ChartThe Jacobin PigeonThe Pouter PigeonSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:03:38) Gender Complexity(00:42:27) Mars Water Deja Vu(01:18:16) Pigeons(01:38:21) OutroWe also learn about: Caroline snipes Tom’s joke, let’s talk about sex, “I do it and I have one”, sex is a bimodal distribution, defining sex is like defining a tree, have you ever had a gender that… that…, women men girls and boys, gender as separate from sex, Money’s awful gender experiment, sample size: David, why haven’t they just tried… talking to people? Hasbro lobbying Big Hormone pink and blue brains have a lot of overlap, news of mars water is like news of the first gay Disney character, we found a full britta filter on mars, the first water on mars theory, Herschel thought people lived in the sun, all the things we’ve sent to mars, the “““first””” evidence of water on mars, “““recent””” water on mars, saying we found water on mars makes it sound like we’re tackling the same problem over and over, we’re learning all kinds of stuff about mars, yes there’s water on mars but first let’s define water, gender neutral martians, “sublimate” makes Caroline happy, there is sometimes and maybe water on mars, there definitely used to be water on mars, martian time periods, stop personifying mars Caroline, “the planet Vulcan’; the astronomers still watching intently”, the precovery of Pluto 15 years before its discovery, the rock dove became the pigeon, pigeons were  domesticated multiple times, pigeons may be the first domesticated bird, 350 breeds of domesticated pigeons, met gala pigeon looks, endurance pigeons flying for 22 hours, homing pigeon navigation, reddit quotes, the pigeon origins of Reuters, these are kinds of jokes you can support with your donation, listener submitted comeback, world war pigeons, 36 Dickin Medals went to pigeons, feral domestic pigeons, pigeons are better pets than parrots, stress egg laying, Darwin loved pigeons.Sources:Sex and Gender by Archer and Lloyd, 2002.A Brief History of ‘Gender’Nature or Nurture: The Case of the Boy Who Became a Girl PEW: On Gender Differences, No Consensus on Nature vs. Nurture2008 Paper: The Nature and Nurture of Gender1993 Paper: Physical attractiveness of boys with gender identity disorder2019 Paper: Neurobiology of gender identity and sexual orientationCleveland Clinic: Androgens2022 paper: Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity2020 Paper: Brain Sex Differences Related to Gender Identity Development: Genes or Hormones?2020 Paper: Neuroscience and Sex/Gender: Looking Back and ForwardPBS: Map of Gender Diverse Cultures Article: Indigenous Tribes Embraced Gender Fluidity Prior to ColonisationMIT: Gender Pay GapSTEM Women: The Gender Pay Gap in STEM---Early Mars Ovservations and the CanalsWilliam Herschel on Mars to the Royal SocietyBasalla on Herschel's Sun People TheoryLowell to Nature on Life on MarsLowell's Mars Canal ObsessionList of Mars MissionsVox's Mars Water ArticleNasa 2015 Press ReleaseNasa 2017 Walk Back Press ReleaseNYTimes 2015 Water on MarsNYTimes 2018 Lake on MarsSpace.com 2022 Water could be Magma"Recent" Water Found on MarsAsk a Nasa Scientist "Is There Water on Mars"Stability of the Liquid Water Phase on MarsNasa on Mars In DepthSmithsonian Magazine Water on MarsNYTimes Planet Vulcan Reporting 1876The Precovery of Pluto---Wendall Levi: Pigeon GuyJacobin PigeonPouter PigeonSquabsGilbert & Shapiro: Pigeon DomesticationDomestic Pigeons PaperWhy Pigeons, Not Parrots

It's our first Best Of episode! We sat down to listen to and talk about the topics YOU told us were your favorites!Temporal Illusions! Eurovision! Dodos, and so much more! Support us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about: The handsome Dr. Ella Hubber, if a friend recommended this to you they’re amazing and didn’t start that orphanage fire, declaring Tom’s love for Carly in the first episode, the first “Comedy”, Tom’s Eurovision indoctrination, the grim Holiday Episode, *aggressively podcasts at man*, seeing Tom’s wheels spinning, Let’s Go To Therapy Together! 

What are some of the wildest ways that eyes have evolved?  What would happen if we got rid of all mosquitos, and how would we even do it?  And how on Earth did some Canadians come to love bagged milk?Images we talk about:The  Picture Tom had on his Dorm WallThe Sheep VideoSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:05:15) Eyevolution(00:44:03) Eliminating Mosquitos(01:18:11) Bagged Milk(01:41:18) OutroWe also learn about: Ella you’ve made it! it’s bagged milk all the way down, organs of extreme perfection and complication, misquoting Darwin, this is cliche because this is where this came from, Darwin’s clickbait, Eyevolution 2 Eyelectric BoogEyeloo, eye diagrams on Tom’s dorm wall, octopi are aliens, we are the ones with backward photoreceptors, you’re perfect just the way you are, horizontal and vertical pupils, cats have built in sunglasses, taller animals have rounder pupils, using the blur gradient for depth perception most, birds have circular pupils, compensatory cyclovergence in goats, horror writers have rotating goat eyes, w shaped pupils in cuttlefish, heart shaped pupils, frog pupils are a mystery, “I ought to conquer the cold shudder”, it’s just 1 mosquito species or 3,000, mosquitos are on every continent, vegetarian mosquitos, blood drinking mosquitos only drink blood to reproduce, I thought we were capri suns, *joke about women here*, palette, no plant requires mosquito pollination, the mosquito fish, mosquitos are delectable… uh… for fish, does every entomologist eat bugs, dark clouds of arctic mosquitos, cleaning pools just lacks that wow factor, mosquitos annoy caribou to death, the ecosystem would hiccup and move on, the invisible hand of mosquitos, nearly half of all people ever to live have been killed by mosquito disease, extirpation, the classic sterile insect technique has been used since the 1950s, you are the third person I’ve known whose had to sex fruit flies, “Ella’s Virgins”, filling mosquitos with good bacteria, spider venom fungus to brutally kill mosquitos, why are you here Sabrina, casual Ella lore drop about living in Canada, milk with the skin on, you don’t raw dog the milk bag, a heavy cold hacky sack, metric system looking pretty sexy, the metrication of Canada, this new fancy bag milk technology, too much marketing brain, demetricating, DIY bag milk, Sabrina’s got big misc energy.Sources: The Origin of SpeciesSerb & Eernisse on Cephalopod EyesDavid Holmes on the "Weird Wiring" of our EyesLabin & Ribak One Theory Why Our Eyes are Wired BackwardsThe Amazing Meta-Analysis of Pupil Shape from Banks et al.NPR Interview of Eye ResearchersW Shaped Pupil of CuttlefishPupil Diversity in FrogsDarwin's Leter to Asa---Ecology: A world without MosquitoesWhat would happen if we eliminated the worlds mosquitoesThe different types of mosquitoesMalaria FactsIrradiated mosquitoesGM MosquitoesWorld Mosquito ProgramMosquito Killing Fungus---CBC on Selling Milk in BagsMetrication - A Guide for Consumers (1974)Report on Canadian Metrication ProgressCBC on Canada's Bagged Milk History

Who is the most recent human we all share our DNA with?  How can CRISPR be used to help the climate crisis?  And what do telephones have to do with music?Support us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:04:22) Mitochondrial Eve(00:39:21) Climate Change CRISPR(01:14:15) Telephone Music(01:47:15) OutroImages we talk about:Early Headphone AdvertisementWe also learn about: Dartboard topics, Most recent common female ancestor, that’s actually the topic! endosymbiotically engulfing mitochondria, every animal now has this little friend, a fly gets caught in a photocopier and now we can’t live without it, mitochondrial DNA is only passed down the female line, mitochondrial DNA mutates once every 8,000 years, mitochondrial eve may have existed 150,000 years ago, eve wasn’t alone but she was our common ancestor, the eve of sperm whales was only 10,000 years ago, for squids it was 35,000 years, “won’t somebody think of the men”, Y Chromosomal Adam may have come from 210,000 years ago, concestor, simulating the concestor in a simulation, it’s not really a family tree it’s a messy web that we can draw a triangle around, GMOs vs Gene Editing, cool rad interspersed short palindromic repeats, tell them about how repairs happen! just some extracurricular learning, tom guesses cow farts in one, fartless cows without editing the cows themselves, we could eat less meet or just genome edit our way out of this, blue ribbon cow fart judge, is this a bandaid? making plants work harder to absorb CO2, photosynthesis labor laws, it’s not just “eat more carbon” it’s also grow deeper roots, “adapting the world to suit our misuse, rather than trying to improve our own behavior”, who needs pesticides when you have ugly plants, the scientific community is carefully thinking about these things, head phones, switchboard operators, that’s so gool, tom puts the podcast on hold, the devil invented hold music, hold music and temporal perception. no music makes time slow down, the fans of hold music, Tim Carleton’s stereo mistake “yeah… sorry about that”, the vocal encoder, mmm whatcha say, “it is the identity of our artistic project”, Ella’s Sherlock ringtone, Dark Blue, a book about making ringtones, 346   certified gold ringtones, Beyonce is the ringtone queen, ringtone podcasts, can only hope we’re causing as many people bodily harm as possibleSources:No, a Mitochondrial “Eve” Is Not the First Female in a SpeciesOrigin of MitochondriaBiologos: Mitochondrial Eve and Y Chromosome AdamMitochondrial DNA and human evolutionAll About Mitochondrial Eve: An Interview with Rebecca CannMolecular ClockHaplogroupsGiant Squid Mitochondrial EveSequencing Y Chromosomes Resolves Discrepancy in Time to Common Ancestor of Males Versus FemalesThe 'extremely ancient' chromosomeMost Recent common ancestor---National Human Genome Research Institue: What is genome editing?GOV.UK: Plans to unlock power of gene editing unveiledNature: History of Agricultural Biotechnology: How Crop Development has EvolvedSynthego: History of Genetic Engineering and the Rise of Genome Editing ToolsBROAD Institute: Questions and Answers about CRISPR2021 Paper: Application of Gene Editing for Climate Change in AgricultureInnovature: Gene Editing Is A Key To Environmental Sustainability2021 Paper: EU policy must change to reflect the potential of gene editing for addressing climate change2019 Paper: Application of genetic modification and genome editing for developing climate-smart bananaUC Davis: Can CRISPR Cut Methane Emissions From Cow Guts?Article: Biotech company claims genetic selection can cut methane emissions in cattle2017 Paper: Is Editing the Genome for Climate Change Adaptation Ethically Justifiable?Cut and Paste - Francis Crick Institude---Headphone History from Smithsonian MagHold Music Technicalities from NPRThe Influence of Music on Temporal Perceptions in an on-hold Waiting SituationThis American Life Hold Music EpisodeTim Carleton's Opus No 1 from The AtlanticOpus No 1 in Mono and Carleton's CommentVocal Encoder PatentLogic Manual on Vocoder HistoryDaft Punk Vocoder InterviewBook on Ring TonesCNN Ring Tone Interviews from 2006RIAA Gold & Platinum RingtonesCNN on Phone Music

Tom threw out his voice screaming about the new Zelda game (not actually) so we're delaying the next episode.  But! We're not shifting the release schedule so the next episode will still come out the Thursday after!In the meantime, check out the episode of Veritasium that Tom researched and wrote! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw

What are the myths and facts around the hormonal birth control pill?  Why are there two highest points on Earth, and does that teach us about our planet?  And what are all the ways period products affect the world we live in?Support us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:03:04) The Pill(00:52:01) The 2 Highest Points on Earth(01:28:28) Period Products(01:49:10) OutroWe also learn about: Now that’s a rabbithole I can go down, taking half the pill makes you bi, LLE now played in health classes across the nation, the Ebers papyrus, they weren’t just using contraception they were communicating it, ancient Egyptian RAs, can’t get pregnant when you’re dead from mercury poisoning, the witch bull, bundling is the x games of abstinence, Tom definitely knows how the pill works, it’s not that men don’t know about women’s health it’s that women have to know about men’s health too, 1827 we discover the egg, 1843 confirmed conception happens when sperm enters the egg, the worlds fair of contraception, the American Birth Control League, Ella has a revelation, if I were a contraception and you took me I’d be an oral contraception, the original pill was 66x stronger to try to prove it was effective, bogus bad faith birth control studies, don’t well me, the Earth is squished because it spins, Team Everest vs Team Chimborazo, what the fuck is sea level, NERD I KNOW YOU’RE DOING MATH, nonbinary sex ed is just learning about mountains, 8,000 meters above Church, the air-sea interface, the metonic cycle of 19 years, carrying sea level, that’s what Tom gets for planning a joke, the geoid, a slide from Everest to Chimborazo, the death zone, our third ancient Egypt reference, Hypatia throws a pad, i got you a 100 rock that’s what you need right? the black hole of period history, you can’t abstinence periods, if you’ve used a sanitary belt join the discord! using WWII bandages, menstrual products vs the environment, the menstrual cup recommended by 3/3 members of the podcast, period poverty, the pink tax and the tampon tax, menstrual contact “turns new wine sour” “hives of bees die”, the stigma and cost of menstrual products, efforts to reduce period poverty, sniping review corner.Sources:Paper: The history of contraception: From ancient egyptians to the "morning after"NYT: In Ancient Times, Flowers and Fennel For Family PlanningNHS: Sex and contraception after birthThe Bull of Innocent VIIIMercury Policy MIT: History Of Mercury Use in Products and ProcessesBook: Encyclopedia of Motherhood, Volume 1Paper: Resisting Reproduction: Reconsidering Slave Contraception in the Old SouthUN: Contraceptive Use by MethodPBS: The Timeline of the PillVox: Where The Pill is FreePlanned Parenthood: History of the PillPaper: Return to fertility following discontinuation of oral contraceptivesPaper: “They Destroy the Reproductive System”: Exploring the Belief that Modern Contraceptive Use Causes InfertilityThe Guardian: Contraceptive Pill 'Can Lead Women to Choose Wrong Partner'Paper: MHC-correlated odour preferences in humans and the use of oral contraceptivesPaper: The impact of combined oral contraceptives on ocular tissues: a review of ocular effectsPaper: Oral contraceptive use in women changes preferences for male facial masculinity and is associated with partner facial masculinityPaper: Relationship Satisfaction and Outcome in Women Who Meet Their Partner While Using Oral Contraception---NOAA on the Tallest MountainNat Geo on Sea LevelBritannica Definition of Sea LevelBradshaw's History of English LevellingNOAA on the Metonic CycleVox on the GeoPolitics of SurveyingNOAA's New Datum for 2025GIS Geography on the GeoidESRI on the GeoidEverest's Death ZoneScientific American on the GeoidCiro Pabon on the Practicality of Sea Level---Menstruation Products in the Science MuseumHistory of The TamponThe Evolution of Menstrual ProductsEnviromenstrual Fact SheetWhich Period Products Are Best for the Environment?The Tampon Tax: Everything You Need to KnowTampon Tax AbolishedAction Aid: Period Poverty

Special guest Ellen Weatherford joins us to ask: just how interesting can water and fish be?  And are there any pokemon inspired by strange but real animals? Check out Ellen's podcasts "Just the Zoo of Us" and "Spellbound and Gagged"Support us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about: defining fish, “just be cool about it”, defining drowning, Ellen and Caroline teach Tom and Ella about where water oxygen comes from, history of breathing, where we’re going we don’t need bones, christmas tree worm, osmoregulation and ion gradients i love it and i wish i understood it better, keeping a salt backpack, gills and lungs, “sorry for the crisis”, I’ve been sleeping on fish, mmmmm actually gonna evolve back to the water, can I get a return on these lungs? but what we’re talking about is drowning. cold water more oxygen, arapaima, ding ding ding drowning yay! thousand mile dead zones, only some sharks need to move to breathe, Ram Ventilation vs Buccal Pumping at Coachella, buccal vs buckle, asmr buccal pumping, tuna need to swim or drown, letting arapaima rest in your arms, learning to love fish, Spiders and Commitment, alligators vs manatees, singing a B flat for gators, alligator snapping turtle, bringing Ellen to party, Wooper and Clodsire, the iberian ribbed newt, obliterating your future husband with a Whimsicott.Sources:WHO Definition of DrowningOrigin of Gills2022 Gill Ion Regulation PaperEvolution of LungsLung Conversion to Swim BladdersHow Fish Deal with SalinitySalmon OsmoregulationBullshark OsmoregulationCold Water Holds more OxygenHypoxia Adaptations in the Amazon RainforestAir Breathing ArapaimaGill RemodelingGulf of Mexico Dead ZoneHypoxia Task ForceTuna Ram Ventilation

Is there more to learn than to fear from toxic animals? How would we warn future humans about present dangers? And what are  better ways for us to be buried? Things we mention:WIPP Mock Up ImagesSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about:This ant can kill 1 million elephants, haven’t found a venomous mushroom… yet, a lot of my friends are toxic frogs, nom nom nom I eat poison, don’t touch shit, from none to death, the schmidt sting index, I want the data not the sting, what schmidts data was actually saying, some toxins don’t correlate with pain or lethality, venomous mammals are have in common that they’re disregarded, shrews beareth a cruel mind, arguably venomous slow lorises, expanding our definition of toxicity, letting tom load a joke, protecting the future from caroline’s savage burns, the waste isolation pilot plant, 573 known extinct languages, I can haz nuclear waste? skull and crossbones, cubed morphines, “this place is a message…this place is not a place of honor”, landscape of thorns, forboding blocks, it’s giving kiki, taking a photo on a spike for the gram, nucelar priesthood, ray cats, “they didnt really care what we said i think”, understanding our past to connect to our future, just leave a dvd of the mummy, we’ve been burying people for 120,000 years, inventing oven crypts in the 1800s, gotta workshop the name oven crypt, “I want to be in a big bone pit”, lots of places resuse plots, just walking past a pile of tombstones! blasting our relatives into the stratosphere, natural burials, fungus coffins, water cremation.Sources:Poison, Venom, ToxungensAtlas Obscura Schmidt Sting IndexNPR Justin Schmidt InterviewFirst Sting Index Paper: Hemolytic Activities of Stinging Insect VenomsEvolution of Stings and SocialityNYTimes Interview with SchmidtVenomous Mammals: A ReviewNekaris Paper on Loris Bites Between Each OtherLoris Venom for CommunicationLoris Venom for Cobra MimicryShrew Spit Tames Cancer CellsJustin Schmidt Obituary---The US Energy Department Waste Isolation Pilot PlantEPA What is Transuranic Radioactive Waste?Understanding Extinct Languages: When and Why They Die OffJolly RogerPirates, Poison, and Professors: A Look at the Skull and Crossbones SymbolExpert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot PlantSummary of WIPP Team A report with imagesVice: How to Warn the Future About Toxic WasteYucca Mountain Nuclear Waste RepositoryNevada Attorney General: The Fight Against Yucca MountainThe Ray Cat Solution---BBC: Death Rituals in the Animal KingdomBBC: What Happens When We Run Out of Space to Bury the DeadBBC: The World is Running Out of Burial SpaceA Thought Experiment by J. HarringtonForbes: Rising to Heaven Dawn: South Africa's Graveyard Generation Mourns IOL: What About the Ancestors Paper: The environmental pollution caused by cemeteries and cremations: A reviewEA: The Grave Issue of Pollution From Cemeteries Sending Your Ashes to SpacesSmithsonian: What is Water CremationAsk A MorticianAsk A Mortician: Water CremationAsk A Mortician: Green Burial Options