Osteology (SKELETONS/BODY FARMS) with Daniel Wescott

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Let's dig right into Spooktober with ... BONES. You're a steak-covered skeleton and it's nothing to fear. The amazingly kind and committed osteologist Dr. Daniel J. Wescott of Texas State University's famed Forensic Anthropology Research Center sits down -- surrounded by skulls and femurs and ribs -- and chats about how bones are formed, how they break, why they might hurt when the weather changes, what CSI gets wrong, how long it takes a body to decompose, looking for isotopes in found remains, cast iron coffins, skeleton myths, body donation, and more. Will Alie freak out, or will this exposure to hundreds of skeletons under one roof chill her out? Also, dickbones: are they for winners or losers? A donation went to the Texas State Forensic Anthropology Research Center Sponsor links: kiwi.com/ologies; withcove.com/ologies; HelloFresh.com/Ologies80; More links up at alieward.com/ologies/osteology Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes and STIIIICKERS! Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn Special thanks to Dr. Joe Hanson Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

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0:00.0	Oh hey, it's your old pop here.
0:03.4	Help when you make a robot costume out of boxes in aluminum foil alley-ward, back with
0:08.7	another episode of allergies in the first in our month of Spooktober.
0:14.2	Five Tuesdays of creepy and cozy and scary and chilly topics and we're starting with one
0:21.2	that's in the room right now.
0:24.0	Your skeleton.
0:25.3	Skeletons?
0:26.3	Look around.
0:27.3	A skeleton sitting next to you on the subway, they're surrounding you.
0:32.4	Surrounding you in the office.
0:33.6	A skeleton made that warm dirty chai latte that you're cradling.
0:38.2	But before we dig into bones and body farms, let's do some business up top.
0:44.2	First off, thank you to everyone on Patreon for supporting allergies and submitting your
0:48.4	wonderful questions.
0:49.7	Thanks to everyone wearing allergies merch from oligeesmerge.com.
0:53.4	Thank you to everyone who rates and hits subscribe.
0:56.3	And of course to the folks who leave a review, which you know, I creepily read, for example,
1:00.9	a J.N. who said, I recently got sober and with that has come a renewed passion for learning.
1:06.9	Filling the time I would have been drinking with learning about anyology you could possibly
1:11.5	imagine has been invaluable to me.
1:13.2	I love hearing the incredible passion of the guests when they talk about the subjects they
1:17.0	clearly love so much.
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