Plagues with John Green | SciShow Tangents Podcast

Описание: Would it really be a conversation about plagues if noted plague-hater and tuberculosis-fighter John Green wasn't a part of it? In this episode John makes his Tangents debut at last, and we dig deep into whether we could fight an old, fat beaver and win, among other things.

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[Truth or Fail Express]

Hunter-gatherer from 5000 years ago infected with plague

https://www.livescience.com/5000-year...

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/arti...

Isaac Newton plague cure

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...

Sewer pipes in Hanoi let plague-bearing rats breed

https://feralatlas.supdigital.org/pos...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...

[The Scientific Definition]

Four thieves vinegar

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...

https://nutritionalgeography.faculty....

https://www.si.edu/es/object/die-mond...

The Vicary method / The live chicken treatment

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/665487

https://libguides.umn.edu/healthmisin...

Zenexton

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44444207

https://archive.org/details/b30341681...

[Ask the Science Couch]

HIV resistance through genetic mutation and selective pressure (possibly from plagues)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...

https://jmg.bmj.com/content/42/3/205

https://www.nature.com/news/2005/0503...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16880...


Plague doctors probably didn’t look like birds (until later / after theater)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:...

https://deathscent.com/2020/05/15/the...

https://www.livescience.com/plague-do...

[Butt One More Thing]

Using pastes made with human feces to treat bubonic plague

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/04/med...

https://hosted.lib.uiowa.edu/histmed/...

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