• Plants are Cool, Too! Halloween Special (YouTube)
Even plants can be scary - especially when they live on the flesh of innocent bugs. Biology professor Chris Martine gives a tour of some of the less animal friendly plants out there. Feed me Seymour!
• Bad Moon Rising: The Science of Werewolves >> Cocktail Party Physics
Hypertrichosis or excessive hair growth, plus a psychiatric condition known as lycanthropa, may have inspired werewolf folk tales. I wonder how many disturbed or very hairy people were persecuted for their conditions.
• 13 Horrifying Ways to Die (Arthropod Edition) >> Compound Eye
Some fantastic photos of the terrible ways insects die, from being hunted by packs of determined ants to zombie fungus infecting your brain. Not a nice way to go amongst them.
Image: 1648 portrait of Petrus Gonsalvus, the first documented case of hypertrichosis. Three of his children also had this condition. (Public Domain)
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