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This week we get sneezy and wheezy, because the plants are being sleazy. Hay Fever is one of the most common allergies in the world & there’s a lot of science behind it that might surprise you...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!Facebookhttp://facebook.com/SciGuysPodTwitterhttp://twitter.com/SciGuysPodInstagramhttp://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further ReadingHay Fever https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hay-fever/ https://www.britannica.com/science/hay-fever-pathology https://www.britannica.com/science/pollen https://www.britannica.com/plant/timothy https://www.britannica.com/science/rhinitis https://www.allergyuk.org/information-and-advice/statistics Antihistamines https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/antihistamines/#:~:text=How%20antihistamines%20work,which%20helps%20protect%20the%20body. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3667286/ Hay Fever In Japan https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210317/p2a/00m/0na/029000c https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4160535/ Hay Fever Treatment https://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/research/research-impact/allergen-immunotherapy-in-the-treatment-of-hayfever/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10441602/ Follow the Sci Guys@notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth

NoahFinnce joins us this week to talk about PTSD, our patron-voted topic for this month!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!Facebookhttp://facebook.com/SciGuysPodTwitterhttp://twitter.com/SciGuysPodInstagramhttp://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further Reading1. https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/overview/#:~:text=Post%2Dtraumatic%20stress%20disorder%20(PTSD)%20is%20an%20anxiety%20disorder,stressful%2C%20frightening%20or%20distressing%20events.2. https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd-and-complex-ptsd/symptoms/3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181836/4. https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/complex/5. https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd-and-complex-ptsd/symptoms/6. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32847484/7. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29502529/8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5604756/Follow the Sci Guys@notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth

What would you do if your hand developed a mind of its own? No, this isn’t sci-fi, this is a reality for people with Alien Hand Syndrome… 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!Facebookhttp://facebook.com/SciGuysPodTwitterhttp://twitter.com/SciGuysPodInstagramhttp://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further Reading https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11910-016-0676-z https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19434588/ https://pn.bmj.com/content/practneurol/4/1/44.full.pdf https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11910-016-0676-z.pdf https://www.jsmf.org/meetings/2008/may/Mark%20VW%202008%20Alien%20hand%20syndrome.pdf https://n.neurology.org/content/91/11/527.long https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/65/3/366 https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/alien-hand.htm#pt3 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-12225163.amp https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4059570/

Stubbins Ffirth was a mess student who really went above and beyond to become a doctor, by using himself as a guinea pig to test the infectiousness of yellow fever…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!Facebookhttp://facebook.com/SciGuysPodTwitterhttp://twitter.com/SciGuysPodInstagramhttp://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further ReadingYellow Fever1. https://www.britannica.com/science/yellow-fever2. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/yellow-fever3. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/yellow-fever/4. https://www.cdc.gov/yellowfever/vaccine/index.html5. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/yellow-fever6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892770/Stubbins Ffirth and his experiments1. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/mrme9h3v2. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2050030-2,00.html3. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/dn16735-eight-scientists-who-became-their-own-guinea-pigs/amp/4. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/11639615. https://www.nature.com/articles/nj6959-745a6. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44450391?seq=1

We know that some people can walk around while fast asleep, but how does it work? What else can you do in your sleep? What would happen if you broke the law?  Science might have the answers… 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 Sleepwalking Basics https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/sleepwalking/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28363449/ https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31288-0?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982218312880%3Fshowall%3Dtrue https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17931980/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-science-of-sleepwalking-97626685/ https://n.neurology.org/content/78/20/1583 Sleepwalking & The Law https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15229043/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1286639/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4506454/ https://www.sleep.theclinics.com/article/S1556-407X(11)00086-5/fulltext Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (2011) David Eagleman Follow the Sci Guys @notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth

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!Facebookhttp://facebook.com/SciGuysPodTwitterhttp://twitter.com/SciGuysPodInstagramhttp://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!Facebookhttp://facebook.com/SciGuysPodTwitterhttp://twitter.com/SciGuysPodInstagramhttp://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!Facebookhttp://facebook.com/SciGuysPodTwitterhttp://twitter.com/SciGuysPodInstagramhttp://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!Facebookhttp://facebook.com/SciGuysPodTwitterhttp://twitter.com/SciGuysPodInstagramhttp://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