Some links and sources from this episode: Washington Post: Why Americans still avoid MSG, even though its 'health effects' have been debunked Columbia Undergraduate Research Journal: A Racist Little Hat: The MSG Debate and American Culture Umami Information Center: What is Umami Journal of Environmental Health: Monosodium Glutamate and the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome: A Review of Food Additive Safety Washington Post: The Scoop on MSG 

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Links from this episode: Wikipedia: Entropy Wikipedia: Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot Wikipedia: Rudolf Clausius Stan Sandler: Chemical, Biochemical, and Engineering Thermodynamics Stan Sandler: An Introduction to Applied Statistical Thermodynamics 

Entropy

Sources from this episode: Be wary of these two: they might try to sell you something. But we're only using them for myths, which is exactly what this type of nonsense site is good for. Crystalinks: Native American myths of creation Mesosyn: Hindu creation myth Strange Science: Benoît de Maillet Encyclopedia Britannica: What Darwin Got Right (and Wrong) About Evolution The Guardian: Why everything you've been told about evolution is wrong The New Yorker: The Fantasy of the Deathbed Conversion 

Darwin

Sources for this episode: Quora (yes, it's not a reliable source): How did people "use the toilets" before there were toilets? Historic UK: The Throne of Sir John Harrington Wikipedia: Thomas Crapper 

Thomas Crapper

Sources from this episode: Wikipedia: Glass Science: Cathedral Glass Myth Shattered Journal of the American Ceramic Society: Viscous flow of medieval cathedral glass  

Glass

I was not provided the sources. You'll have to take us at our word until I'm given them!

Jurassic Park

Sources for this episode: Wikipedia: Kurt Schneider Schizophrenia.com: Symptoms of Schizophrenia and Schizophrenia Diagnosis 

Schizophrenia

Sources from the episode: Wikipedia: Absinthe Wikipedia: Thujone Wikipedia: Ouzo effect Jad Adams: Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle 

Absinthe

Some links from the episode: Time: 5 Myths and Truths about Rasputin KnowledgeNuts: Rasputin Didn't Die Like The Legends Say Douglas Smith: Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs Slightly Less: Ra Ra Rasputin 

Rasputin

Sources and links from this episode: World Martial Arts Center: Meanings of the Belts and Sashes Wikipedia: Black belt (martial arts) 

Karate

Links and references from the episode: Wikipedia: Ring a Ring o’ Roses William Wells Newell: Games and Songs of American Children Metafolklore: Ring Around the Rosie Wikipedia: San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 Youtube: Footloose "Dancing Warehouse" Scene 

Ring around the rosie

References from this episode: There's no "new" and "old" brain Wikipedia: Triune brain How should you pull off a bandaid? Medical Journal of Australia: Fast versus slow bandaid removal: a randomised trial Fine hair is less likely to ingrow WebMD: Ingrown hair Puberty is happening earlier and earlier The Guardian: Why is puberty starting younger? The Alexander mosaic hasn't faded mostly because of oxide-based pigments American Journal of Archaeology: Chemical Classification and Provenance of Some Roman Glazed Ceramics Pigs can sweat, but not through their cloven hooves International Journal of Biometeorology: The evolution of sweat glands The Earth Pyramid is meant to be "green," not "renewable Earth Pyramid: Construction Soldiers probably had to wait months to return home after World War II Wikipedia: Demobilization of United States armed forces after World War II We got rid of DDT, not DEET Wikipedia: DEET Carrot cake wasn't invented in WWII Wikipedia: Carrot cake Vitamin B comes from bacteria MIT News: MIT biologists solve vitamin puzzle Bees aren't tetrachromats, but they can see in UV Evan Thompson: Colour Vision: A Study of Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception Wikipedia: Aphakia 

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Sources from this episode: Bullfighting Wikipedia: Bullfighter Leigh & Morris: With the World's Great Travelers, Volume 3 Bats The Verge: Not even bats are 'blind as a bat' National Geographic: 6 Bat Myths Busted Goldfish The Daily Mail (sorry): Old goldfish Telegraph: Fish's memories last for months, say scientists  

Animal grab bag

Some links from this week's episode: Pet Health Network: Are dogs really colorblind? ColBlindor: Deuteranopia—Red-green color blindness Whole Dog Journal: Structure of the canine eye Daily Treat: 7 dog myths you totally thought were true The Spruce Pets: What are the biggest dog myths? Clive Maxfield: Color vision: one of nature's wonders 

Dog-o-vision

Links and references from this episode: Camera obscura Wikipedia: Camera obscura Encyclopædia Britannica: Photography Nicéphore Niépce Maison Nicéphor Niépce: The History of Photography Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre Mental Floss: Daguerreotype Q&A Henry Fox Talbot Wikipedia: Calotype Later photography Wikipedia: Collodion process Smiling in early photographs IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging: A Century of Portraits: A Visual Historical Record of American High School Yearbooks Library of Congress: Her Majesty’s gracious smile. An instantaneous photograph from life Critical Studies in Media Communication: Why We Say “Cheese”: Producing the Smile in Snapshot Photography 

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