Poison
SciShow Tangents
English - December 06, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsSocial Sciences Science Education schultz comedy sam schultz education ceri riley science hank green stefan chin scishow tangents Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
It's said that the dose makes the poison, but that doesn't change the fact that some poison is just more poison-y than others. This week, we get a lethal dose of venomous knowledge!
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[Definition]
Toxin vs. poison vs. venom
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.12062
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/whats-in-a-name-venoms-vs-poisons-toxinology-101
[Dead or Not Dead]
[Trivia Question]
Belgian musicians getting sick from botulism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5133258/#b01
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30099331
[Fact Off]
Ants disinfect using their butt poison
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31147-3
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/736123
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982212013784
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https://elifesciences.org/articles/60287
Bacteriophage that stole spider venom protein
https://www.livescience.com/56443-black-widow-spider-dna-found-inside-virus.html
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/10/11/virus-carrying-dna-of-black-widow-spider-toxin-discovered/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2108671-virus-steals-black-widow-poison-gene-to-help-it-attack/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Effects of ingesting venom
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6266834/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273230014003419?via%3Dihub
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7985199/
https://www.jem-journal.com/article/S0736-4679(15)01377-3/fulltext
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[Butt One More Thing]
Goats can deactivate poisonous plant compounds
https://calag.ucanr.edu/Archive/?article=ca.v046n03p4
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031938409002510?via%3Dihub