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Special Episode: Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden & Rat City

2/24/2026 • 56 min

What happens if you put a bunch of rats in an enclosure and provision them with unlimited food and water? Researcher John B. Calhoun was committed to finding out. Results from Calhoun’s “rat utopia” experiments from the mid-20th century revealed a behavioral dark side that emerged as space grew increasingly limited, ultimately leading to complete population coll… Play episode

Ep 201 Poop Part 2: Flushed away
Ep 200 Poop Part 1: How the sausage gets made
Special Episode: Nicola Twilley & Frostbite
Ep 199 Sleep Part 2: Predictably unpredictable
Ep 198 Sleep Part 1: Sleeping with one eye open
Special Episode: Daniel Stone & American Poison
Ep 197 Detox: Enemas for everyone
From the Vault - Endometriosis: Menstrual Backwash (Ep 88)
From the Vault - Hepatitis B: Hepatiti, Take 2 (Ep 89)
Ep 196 Health Myths: Fact or fiction?
Special Episode: Dr. Homer Venters & Outbreak Behind Bars
Ep 195 Salt Part 2: The Substance
Ep 194 Salt Part 1: The Seasoning
Special Episode: Gabriel Weston & Alive
Ep 193 Necrotizing Fasciitis: A strange beast
Ep 192 New World Screwworm: Oh-oh here they come
Special Episode: Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal & Dead Ends!
Ep 191 Famine: More than starvation
Ep 190 Starvation: More than hunger
Special Episode: Antonia Hylton & Madness
Ep 189 Newborn screening: The future is here
Ep 188 Candida yeast: Here, there, and everywhere
Special Episode: Mary Roach & Replaceable You
Ep 187 Hypothermia Part 2: How it helps
Ep 186 Hypothermia Part 1: How it hurts
Special Episode: Lina Zeldovich & The Living Medicine
Ep 185 The Great Smog of London: “Thick, drab, yellow, disgusting”
Ep 184 The Gallbladder: Humor us
Special Episode: Carl Zimmer & Airborne
Ep 183 SSRIs Part 2: Action
Ep 182 SSRIs Part 1: Origin
Special Episode: Wendy Chin-Tanner & King of the Armadillos
Ep 181 PCOS: Beyond the cysts
Ep 180 Food Dyes: It’s all marketing
Special Episode: Professor Steven Mithen & The Language Puzzle
Ep 179 Fluoride 2: Fighting tooth and nail
Ep 178 Fluoride 1: The real tooth fairy
Special Episode: Dr. Wendy Kline & Exposed
Ep 177 Toxic Shock Syndrome: A shock to the system
Ep 176 Strychnine: The WD-40 of Victorian Medicine
Special Episode: Dr. Adam Ratner & Booster Shots
Ep 175 What’s the deal with raw milk: Part 2
Ep 174 What’s the deal with raw milk: Part 1
Special Episode: John Green & Everything Is Tuberculosis
Ep 173 Childhood Vaccine Schedule 2: Who’s making the call?
Ep 172 Childhood Vaccine Schedule 1: Let’s give it a shot
Ep 171 Pregnancy: Act 4
Ep 170 Pregnancy: Act 3
Ep 169 Pregnancy: Act 2

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