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ResusNation #129
A Message From Haney Welcome to the 129th edition of ResusNation! A Tongue That  Weighs More Than an Elephant? It’s hard to imagine the sheer size of a blue whale, the largest animal on Earth. To give you some perspective, consider this: a single blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an ...
Aug 13, 2025
ResusNation #128
A Message From Haney Welcome to the 128th edition of ResusNation!  You're Better Off Red The Science and Lore of Red Hair From fiery hues to a rich history, red hair has long captivated people across cultures. It's a genetic trait found in less than 2% of the global population, making natura...
Aug 04, 2025
ResusNation #127
Blood, Guts, & Grapes! Ambroise Paré, a name perhaps unfamiliar to many, was a true revolutionary in the gruesome world of 16th-century battlefield medicine. Imagine the chaos: soldiers suffering horrific injuries, and the standard "treatment" often involving searing hot irons to cauterize wo...
Jul 29, 2025
ResusNation #126
Why Do Bats Hang Around, Upside Down? You want to know a secret about bats? They're basically the original Goths of the animal kingdom, always hanging out upside down! But seriously, have you ever wondered why these fascinating creatures spend their downtime defying gravity? It's not just to ...
Jul 21, 2025
ResusNation #125
What Do Blood Clots And Dead Cows Have In Common? You might be surprised to learn that one of the most common medications used to prevent blood clots, Coumadin (warfarin), has a fascinating origin story deeply rooted in the humble cow! Back in the 1920s, farmers noticed a mysterious bleeding ...
Jul 15, 2025
ResusNation #124
You Won't Believe What "Snake Oil" REALLY Was! Before "snake oil" became synonymous with scams, it was a genuine remedy! For hundreds of years, traditional Chinese medicine utilized oil from the Chinese water snake to soothe aching joints, a practice that continues even today. This fascinatin...
Jul 10, 2025
ResusNation #123
Barking Up The Right Tree Next time you give your patient an aspirin, consider this: you're tapping into a medical tradition thousands of years old! Long before pharmacies and prescriptions, ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks like Hippocrates, and Romans were all onto a secret weapon for pa...
Jul 03, 2025
ResusNation #123
Barking Up The Right Tree Next time you give your patient an aspirin, consider this: you're tapping into a medical tradition thousands of years old! Long before pharmacies and prescriptions, ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks like Hippocrates, and Romans were all onto a secret weapon for pa...
Jul 02, 2025
ResusNation #122
Dads Who Deliver When it comes to parenting, some dads really go the extra mile! Take the male seahorse, for instance. In an interesting twist on traditional roles, the female seahorse actually deposits her eggs into a specialized pouch on the male. He then takes over, fertilizing and incubat...
Jun 26, 2025
ResusNation #121
Ur-ine Luck! Medicine is Much Better Now From medieval "urine wheels" to the widespread practice of bloodletting, medical history is brimming with fascinating, and often startling, approaches to health and disease. For centuries, physicians relied on visual examinations of bodily fluids, wit...
Jun 17, 2025
ResusNation #120
Did They Steal Her Discovery? The Untold Scandal of DNA! While James Watson and Francis Crick are famously recognized for describing the double helix structure of DNA in 1953, it's a common misconception that they "invented" DNA. The molecule itself was first identified by Friedrich Miescher ...
Jun 11, 2025
ResusNation #119
The towering giraffe is a marvel of the animal kingdom, but it faces a unique physiological challenge: how to effectively pump blood from its powerful heart all the way up its incredibly long neck to its brain. To overcome gravity's pull over such a distance, a giraffe's heart is a remarkably...
Jun 04, 2025

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