Bed Bugs Are Unvanquishable and It's Our Fault

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, science writer Brooke Borel explains how a bed bug infestation in 2004 landed her in the ER and later became a consuming area of research. She's the author of Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World. For more bed bug-related entertainment, be sure to listen back to Gist Episode 110, Bedbugs: Disgusting Nuisance, Great Musical. Plus, a novel about a superhero impressionist. Author Jacob Rubin's The Poser tells the story of a man who can do a perfect imitation of anyone he meets. For the Spiel, the clear usefulness of body cams and dashboard cams in policing. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.0	visit Coke.co.uk slash break.
0:29.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:33.0	It's Wednesday, July 29th, 2015, from slate.
0:39.0	It's the gist I'm Mike Pasca.
0:41.0	In the jungle, the mighty jungle.
0:43.0	Ha, Cecil killed by that foulest of creatures.
0:47.0	An ugly American with a mix of, I'm going to say,
0:50.0	impotence and murder-lust.
0:52.0	Cecil was, of course, in Bobwey's iconic lion shot
0:56.0	by an American dentist.
0:58.0	But, you know, we have a really weird relationship
1:01.0	with fearsome animals.
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