Lice
The Caustic Soda team did another invertebrate-related episode, this time about Lice, and again had my friend wirrrn on as their guest. The Phthiraptera are an interesting group, with a number of fascinating adaptations to their life as obligate ectoparasites, but alas I didn't have much in the way of lice facts, history, or trivia for him before the show. Despite that, the team managed to find more than enough to fill the episode :)
Gavin Pitts joins Kevin, Toren, and Joe again via Skype to talk head lice, body lice, public lice, Strigiphilus garylarsoni, Aristotle’s “spontaneous generation” theory, the lice-spread typhus outbreak in the first World War, perukes, Archbishop Thomas Becket, German WWII de-lousing stations, Japanese Unit 731, as well as South Park’s “Lice Capades” episode.
Gavin Pitts joins Kevin, Toren, and Joe again via Skype to talk head lice, body lice, public lice, Strigiphilus garylarsoni, Aristotle’s “spontaneous generation” theory, the lice-spread typhus outbreak in the first World War, perukes, Archbishop Thomas Becket, German WWII de-lousing stations, Japanese Unit 731, as well as South Park’s “Lice Capades” episode.