Ahh, what can be said that hasn’t already been said about The Wicker Man? Almost nothing, according to my Letterboxd research - but we’re still going to try! On this our glorious bad-horror minisode day, we’re reviewing the absolute pile that is the 2006 adaptation of the folk horror classic.
Read MoreSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-COVID-19) is a new strain of a relatively new human coronavirus. It is a positive single-stranded RNA virus. If you remember our episode on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, influenza is also an RNA virus. However, influenza is a negative single-stranded RNA virus, which is crucial to distinguish because there is this running assumption that the current outbreak is "just the flu." They are very different.
Read MoreAnd thus begins our descent into fraud and fortune, into the lives and lies of those we affectionately refer to as snake oil salesmen. This week, Olivia kicked us off with a household name - a man who is (I daresay wrongfully) synonymous with dozens of revolutionary inventions: Thomas Edison.
Read MoreThis week we brought in our very good friend and Kinesiology/Biology major, Solveig Erngren, to wrap up our Fad Diets series and talk about her experiences with disordered eating.
Read MoreThis time, the Things That Keep Me Up at Night crew discuss the 2017 “documentary” What the Health, a hyper-biased trek that explores the correlation between meat-based diets and basically every chronic disease known to man. Also, Olivia gives out her favorite salsa recipe (even if she is confused about where capsaicin comes from).
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