26: Pain, Vampiric Animals, and Penny Dreadfuls

How do we define pain, and what animals can feel it? How similar are vampires to real vampiric animals? And what are penny dreadfuls and how were they actually... good?

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We also learn about: pain is bad, but pain is good, what animals can feel pain, if they can feel kink pleasure from pain they can feel pain, it’s time to define pain for you guys, ella swoops in on a Tom joke, pain is like art, the international association for the study of pain, a funny example of pain, nuance baby! the 2 nail people is a great couples halloween costume, Descartes' pain theory started off so well, nociceptors, how do you test pain? injured flies, are we JigSaw? injecting bee venom into fish, ASC change fish pain laws, vampires are found in almost every culture, we need to protect the ice caps or the vampires will get out, hematophagy and sanguivores, vampire bugs and fish and birds, the fake vampire squid that eats poop, monogamous but false vampire bats, vampire bats are more beautiful and there’s a reason why, super speed super climbing and super stealth bats, blood heat vision with pit organs, biting with incisors not canines, blood is a thin gruel, vampirism is a radical dietary lifestyle, bats help each other out, barfing blood for friends, Twilight has the most scientifically accurate vampires, Ella bamboozles us, as literacy booms so does the need for cheap exciting stories, Varney came before Dracula and invented the tropes, The String of Pearls: a Romance (allegedly) and the origin of Sweeney Todd, tag yourself I’m women with daggers, 45% of victorian britain was under 20, children reading books to each other, the literature of rascaldom, half-penny dreadfullers, how many books were actually popular at their time, our horror recommendations, Junji Ito.

Sources:

The Nature and Science of Pain - Pain Australia A Biological Substrate for Somatoform Disorders Are We Wrong to Assume Fish Can’t Feel Pain - The Guardian Animals Can Feel Pain A Biologist Explains Why - Vox A History of Pain Research History of Pain: A Brief Overview of the 17th and 18th Century Pain Principles - Neuroscience Online Can Ants Feel Pain? Fish Do Not Feel Pain and its Implications for Understanding Phenomenal Consciousness, 2015 Insects Can Experience Chronic Pain - Smithsonian Magazine Invertebrate Nociception, 2017 Do Fish Feel Pain? A Matter of Scientific Debate (Dr Sneddon Quote) Farmed Fish Feel Pain, Stress and Anxiety - The Guardian Why Fish Do Not Feel Pain (Key, 2016) Anthropomorphic Denial of Fish Pain (Sneddon and Leah, 2016)

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Vampirism Lore Hematophagy in Insects Vampire Squid NYTimes on Vampire Bats Field Idenfitication Guide for Bats The 3 Vampire Bat Abilities & Biting Habits Heat Sensing in Bats How Vampire Bats Bite Comparative Study of Bat Incisors Vampirism as a Radical Dietary Lifestyle Food Sharing in Vampire Bats Food Sharing Reciprocation Study Food Sharing after Grooming Study

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Varney the Vampyre The String of Pearls Leaves from a Prison Diary Disseminating Impure Literature': The 'Penny Dreadful' Publishing Business Since 1860 How Gruesome Penny Dreadfuls Got Victorian Children Reading British Library on Penny Dreadfuls Guardian on Penny Dreadfuls Victorian Children's Periodicals: Penny Dreadfuls

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Ljudbok: 20 oktober 2022