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What might an alien third gender consist of?
“Bacchus, Venus and Ariadne” by Jacopo Tintoretto (Wikimedia Commons) Humans live in a bilateral world of male and female genders. As such, the notion of a third gender turns everything on its head....
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Giant Sperm in an Age of Flesh-Eating Kangaroos
The giant sperm from “Chillerama.” (Image via Badmovies.org) Travel back in time 17 million years and you’d find quite a horror show of Australian wildlife: flesh-eating kangaroos, toothed platypuses...
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Supernormal Stimuli & Three-Breasted Women
Actress Kaitlyn Leeb in the 2012 “Total Recall” remake. (Image via Film Actually) The human organism is drawn by certain naturally-occurring stimuli to carry out various functions in our genetic...
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Transcendence on the Rack: The Yoga of Pain
The noble eight-lash path? (Cultura RM/Steve Prezant/Getty) Julie and I originally discussed the idea of “transcendence on the rack” during the 2011 podcast episode of the same name. We contemplated...
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The Bikini Model Made Me Do It
Death by bikini? (CSA Images/Mod Art Collection/Getty) Can you blame a traffic accident, theft or murder on a bikini magazine? Well, you can try. And there’s even a little science to back up your...
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Sperm Kills in Lethal Cross-Species Worm Mating
How could I not make the comparison? (20th Century Fox) What happens when another species’ sperm enters your body? For the most part, nothing. Copulation between distantly-related species produces...
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Monster of the Week: Husbands From Outer Space
Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott and the titular monster. (Paramount/Getty Images) If you’ve ever looked at your beloved partner as an inhuman entity from another world, then 1958′s “I Married a Monster From...
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Isis, Osiris and Functional Necrophilia
Isis resurrects Osiris with the ankh. (Werner Forman/Getty Images) In our latest podcast episode “The Science of Necrophilia,” we focus in large part on necrophilia among animals and the psychological...
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Monster of the Week: The Addiction Demon (AHS)
It feeds on bad Yelp reviews… (FX Networks) I’m somewhat behind in my consumption of “American Horror Story: Hotel,” but I’m already captivated by the show’s most appalling monster: the Addiction...
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Monster of the Week: The Wutong Shen
The Wutong attack. (Maciej Toporowicz, NYC/Moment/Getty) “The southern Wutong-spirit is somewhat like the northern fox-spirit. But whereas the northern fox’s evil force may be exorcised in a hundred...
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