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This week our patrons voted for Depersonalisation Derealisation Disorder and Dodie joined us to give her insight on the topic! CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of Drug Use between 44:38 and 47:53. Listen to dodie’s album: https://dodie.ffm.to/buildaproblem Unreal Charity: https://www.unrealuk.org/ You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/SciGuys Help keep the show running by supporting us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/sciguys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials! Facebook http://facebook.com/SciGuysPod Twitter http://twitter.com/SciGuysPod Instagram http://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further Reading Psychopathology (2019) Graham Davey Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (2011) David Eagleman https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24967634/ https://oce.ovid.com/article/00005053-199809000-00004/HTML https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.16010029 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032716318961?via%3Dihub https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6964445/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239558/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924239/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29877178/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4204471/ https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/dissociative-disorders/ https://frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.535652/full Follow the Sci Guys @notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth

You’ve probably heard of Vantablack, the black that was once the blackest in the world, but you probably haven’t heard of the war it started between two artists - Stuart Semple & Anish Kapoor. You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/SciGuys Help keep the show running by supporting us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/sciguys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials! Facebook http://facebook.com/SciGuysPod Twitter http://twitter.com/SciGuysPod Instagram http://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further Reading https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/artist-only-person-banned-using-worlds-pinkest-pink-180961464/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NzVmtbPOrM https://www.surreynanosystems.com/about/vantablack https://www.wired.com/story/vantablack-anish-kapoor-stuart-semple/ https://news.mit.edu/2019/blackest-black-material-cnt-0913 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-art-painting-delacroix-pigment-ancient-Egypt https://culturehustle.com/ https://www.archpaper.com/2017/07/anish-kapoor-blackest-black/ http://stuartsemple.com/about/ https://www.livescience.com/32559-why-do-we-see-in-color.html https://science.howstuffworks.com/vantablack.htm https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/garden/what-you-can-do-with-vantablack-the-darkest-material-ever-made.html Follow the Sci Guys @notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth

Rita Levi-Montalcini is probably one of the greatest scientists you’ve never heard of. She created a lab in a spare room when Jews were banned from science in WWII, continued to work when she was 100 years old, and fought against fascism! Oh, and she knew a lot about nerves… You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/SciGuys Help keep the show running by supporting us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/sciguys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials! Facebook http://facebook.com/SciGuysPod Twitter http://twitter.com/SciGuysPod Instagram http://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further Reading https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1986/levi-montalcini/facts/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rita-Levi-Montalcini https://www.pnas.org/content/110/13/4873 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/finding-the-good-rita-levi-montalcini/ https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2012/dec/30/rita-levi-montalcini https://www.nature.com/news/2009/090401/full/458564a.html https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jez.1400680305 https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1952.tb26548.x Follow the Sci Guys @notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth

What is at the centre of the planet? Surprisingly… We have a really good idea but we’re still not 100% sure. Turns out it’s pretty hard to get to. You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/SciGuys Help keep the show running by supporting us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/sciguys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials! Facebook http://facebook.com/SciGuysPod Twitter http://twitter.com/SciGuysPod Instagram http://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further Reading http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/story/20150306-journey-to-the-centre-of-earth/ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190503-the-deepest-hole-we-have-ever-dug#:~:text=This%20is%20the%20Kola%20Superdeep,of%20souls%20tortured%20in%20hell. http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150814-what-is-at-the-centre-of-earth https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926751-800-unknown-earth-what-is-at-the-centre-of-the-earth/ https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/what-is-at-earths-core/ https://www.livescience.com/new-earth-layer-solid-inner-core.html#:~:text=The%20liquid%20outer%20core%20starts,and%20a%20bit%20of%20nickel https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2020JB020545  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-whats-deepest-hole-ever-dug-180954349/ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/EarthSci/people/lidunka/GEOL2014/Geophysics7%20-%20Deep%20Earth/Earth%20Structure.htm https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190503-the-deepest-hole-we-have-ever-dug Follow the Sci Guys @notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth

What happens when you cross a chimp with a man? Serious ethical concerns and an exile from the Soviet Union... Yes, someone actually tried to make a man-ape hybrid. It didn’t end well You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/SciGuys If you would like to support the podcast, please donate to our Patreon: http://patreon.com/SciGuys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials! Facebook http://facebook.com/SciGuysPod Twitter http://twitter.com/SciGuysPod Instagram http://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further Reading Hybrids https://www.britannica.com/science/hybrid https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/human-monkey-hybrid-china-organ-transplant-stem-cells-embryo-a9037506.html?amp Humans and Chimps https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-020-06962-8 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2464272/#!po=3.12500 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04789#ref-CR33 https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/human-origins/understanding-our-past/dna-comparing-humans-and-chimps https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC187548/ Ilya Ivanov & His Experiments https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926701-000-blasts-from-the-past-the-soviet-ape-man-scandal/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-russian-government-once-funded-a-scientists-quest-to-make-an-ape-human-hybrid-5043859/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ilya-Ivanovich-Ivanov Follow the Sci Guys @notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth

Wendy Lawrence may not have been the first lesbian in space, but she was at the centre of the first ever case of space fraud... or was she? There was a media frenzy around her alleged crime, but Wendy herself has a different story. You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/SciGuys If you would like to support the podcast, please donate to our Patreon: http://patreon.com/SciGuys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials! Facebook http://facebook.com/SciGuysPod Twitter http://twitter.com/SciGuysPod Instagram http://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further Reading Wendy Lawrence https://medium.com/the-vintage-space/gay-astronauts-a-final-frontier-9892d0987fa0 https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202001130001.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/anne-c-mcclain/biography/ https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/23/politics/nasa-astronaut-bank-account-first-criminal-allegation-space/index.html https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2020/04/07/army-astronaut-accused-of-committing-crime-in-space-is-cleared-ex-wife-charged-with-making-false-statements/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/astronaut-space-investigation.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/08/25/nasa-astronaut-accused-of-hacking-bank-account-from-space/amp/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-49457912 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/space-crime-allegation-indictment.html https://www.space.com/amp/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain-space-crime-claim.html Space Law https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties.html https://www.nasa.gov/centers/hq/library/find/bibliographies/space_law/ http://www.esa.int/About_Us/ECSL_-_European_Centre_for_Space_Law/About_space_law https://www.space.com/astronaut-anne-mcclain-refutes-space-crime-claim.html https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/index.html Follow the Sci Guys @notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth

NoahFinnce joins us to celebrate our 2nd birthday! Our patrons have voted for gender as this month’s topic - we‘ll tell you how it works and how it doesn’t work... You can find Noah over on his channel: http://youtube.com/noahfinnce You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/SciGuys If you would like to support the podcast, please donate to our Patreon: http://patreon.com/SciGuys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials! Facebook http://facebook.com/SciGuysPod Twitter http://twitter.com/SciGuysPod Instagram http://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further Reading What is Gender https://www.who.int/health-topics/gender#tab=tab_1 Biology of Gender https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6677266/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7139786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7139786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6939487/ Gender Studies  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19419899.2020.1729844 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-76861-8_8 https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(17)30356-7/fulltext https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6466167/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5845507/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7193756/ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-92270-6_58 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen-Ristvedt/publication/258523575_The_Evolution_of_Gender/links/5d2f1ff3a6fdcc2462e76926/The-Evolution-of-Gender.pdf Gender Gap In STEM https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2004956 https://lukeholman.github.io/genderGap/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673618331350 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2019.00060/full https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05109-w https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2004956 https://www.pnas.org/content/117/9/4609 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6497/1317 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02297805/ Social Constructs & Categories https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797618782181 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF02583913.pdf Follow the Sci Guys @notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth

Are you left handed or right handed? This week we talk about the benefits (and drawbacks) of being a southpaw - and why we even have Handedness in the first place... You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/SciGuys If you would like to support the podcast, please donate to our Patreon: http://patreon.com/SciGuys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials! Facebook http://facebook.com/SciGuysPod Twitter http://twitter.com/SciGuysPod Instagram http://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further Reading Handedness https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3258574/ https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/bf03337470.pdf https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2016.1127 https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/B9780123851574004747?token=CAFE5C834602FE1A71A7FFB7ED77D96EA36F7B8B77F672CB614A08C764CFA5AF57851CCAD67BC439F9B58EC1B380D5F7 Origin of Handedness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb11oOHYNXM&t=396s https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49579810#:~:text=Scientists%20have%20found%20the%20first,linked%20to%20being%20left%2Dhanded.&text=The%20team%20at%20the%20University,development%20and%20the%20dominant%20hand. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-causes-some-people-t/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6441088/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627581-600-southpaws-the-evolution-of-handedness/ https://www.livescience.com/what-causes-left-handedness.html https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/7/eaax9935 https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-0-387-79061-9_1346 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123750006001889 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831280/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0891422220301682 Forcing Right Handedness https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42827363.pdf?ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A4080085e7e4a69c992eac026fe022703 https://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/01/brain https://www.nature.com/news/2007/070716/full/070716-4.html https://www.jneurosci.org/content/30/9/3271 Follow the Sci Guys @notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth

This week we chat about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), the commonly misunderstood condition that affects millions of people worldwide! You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/SciGuys If you would like to support the podcast, please donate to our Patreon: http://patreon.com/SciGuys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials! Facebook http://facebook.com/SciGuysPod Twitter http://twitter.com/SciGuysPod Instagram http://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further Reading What is OCD https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/overview/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7370844/ https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-when-unwanted-thoughts-take-over/20-mh-4676-ocd_150041.pdf https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0897190014521996 Psychopathology: Research Assessment and Treatment in Clinical Psychology - Graham Davey Cause of OCD https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(19)30073-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS089662731930073X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7886082/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4610610/ Treatment https://pharmrev.aspetjournals.org/content/72/1/80.long https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/treatment-for-ocd/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5606297/ https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/talking-therapies-medicine-treatments/medicines-and-psychiatry/ssri-antidepressants/overview/#:~:text=It's%20thought%20to%20have%20a,messages%20between%20nearby%20nerve%20cells. Follow the Sci Guys @notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth

This week Eleanor Neale joins us to chat about forensics, and why it might not be as good as you think... Find Eleanor on her YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/EleanorNeale You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/SciGuys If you would like to support the podcast, please donate to our Patreon: http://patreon.com/SciGuys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials! Facebook http://facebook.com/SciGuysPod Twitter http://twitter.com/SciGuysPod Instagram http://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further Reading Basics of Forensics https://www.britannica.com/science/forensic-science https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=zIRQOssWbaoC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=history+of+forensic+science&ots=wJZ2sXZM1X&sig=ME5kNe5qa4mWvb0f2Xig_ikUP4c#v=onepage&q=history%20of%20forensic%20science&f=false https://science.howstuffworks.com/forensic-lab-technique.htm https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/what-is-forensic-science/amp/ History of Forensics https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_462 https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/forensic-investigation/origins-of-forensic-science/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9783527827688.ch1 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326051477_History_of_Forensic_Science https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/04/21/a-brief-history-of-forensics/%3FoutputType%3Damp https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-1-4614-5690-2_462.pdf Problems with Forensics https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0162243919899467 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150512-can-we-trust-forensic-science https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6386/243.summary https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/234561565.pdf https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01250.x https://innocenceproject.org/overturning-wrongful-convictions-involving-flawed-forensics/ https://www.britannica.com/technology/lie-detector https://www.apa.org/research/action/polygraph#:~:text=The%20accuracy%20(i.e.%2C%20validity),person%20may%20be%20non%2Danxious Follow the Sci Guys @notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth