109 - Remedies: How Carrots Won the War

Episode 9 - Remedies

Nola Nerdcast

Lemon Juice
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/howthingswork/a/aa101203a.htm
http://www.popsci.com/why-does-sunlight-lighten-hair-but-darken-skin
http://www.chemistryexplained.com/Ge-Hy/Hair-Dyes-and-Hair-Treatments.html

Cranberry Juice Cures Urinary Tract Infections
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cranberry-juice-and-uti-no-evidence_us_56be2ce6e4b0b40245c67ea3
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2015/10/can-cranberry-juice-stop-uti/

Skunk Tomato juice
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/skunk-spray-tomato-juice1.htm
http://users.humboldt.edu/wfwood/chemofskunkspray.html
http://sciencenetlinks.com/science-news/science-updates/skunk-removal/
Partridge Family clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4TiusoElHM

Carrots and eyes
Kids more prone than adults to turning orange: http://uamshealth.com/healthlibrary2/medicalmyths/medicalmythscarrots/ 
Inuit or Eskimo? https://www.uaf.edu/anlc/resources/inuit-eskimo/

Chicken Pox oatmeal
http://dailyburn.com/life/health/benefits-vitamin-b-complex/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oat (lots of good cites sources here)

Ginger Motion sickness
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92775/

108 - Body: Cracking Knuckles and Power Licking

108 - Body: Cracking Knuckles and Power Licking

Wittenberg to Westphalia: Wars of the Reformation, Ben Jacobs

Cracking Knuckles
1998 - Dr. Donald Unger
Does Knuckle Cracking Lead to Arthritis of the Fingers? Journal Arthritis & Rheumatism

1990 paper studied 300 outpatients, same result
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crack-research/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3IYmdy6d4Y

Tongue strongest muscle
https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/muscles.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-the-tongue-is-the-strongest-muscle-in-the-body/
Insured tongue: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/4957333/Costa-Coffees-taster-has-tongue-insured-for-10-million.html

Shaving hair
1928 Study (NIH Link)

Blue angel
Fire fart recipe http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fire+Fart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WotaR41P

Baldness from mother’s father
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122393553747430381

Can men lactate milk?
http://www.livescience.com/45732-can-men-lactate.html
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/11/why-do-men-have-nipples/