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Screaming Woman Mummy Mystery Solved, Possible Natural Treatment for Baldness, and TDIH - The Oldest Known Living Tree Cut Down

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Science, Tech News, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

At least one mystery of the famous screaming woman mummy is solved, and we’ve heard this a million times before, but scientists believe they may have discovered a NATURAL and effective treatment for male pattern baldness. Plus, on This Day in History, the world’s oldest known living tree was cut down. 'Screaming Woman': Egyptian mummy's pained expression may have been caused by rare event | Offbeat News | Sky News Scientists may have finally found a cheap, natural cure for baldness | BBC Science Focus Magazine Frontiers | Stimulation of hair regrowth in an animal model of androgenic alopecia using 2-deoxy-D-ribose (frontiersin.org) Why a scientist cut down ‘the oldest living tree’ - High Country News (hcn.org) How One Man Accidentally Killed the Oldest Tree Ever | Smithsonian (smithsonianmag.com) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome once again to Cool Stuff Ride Home. My name's Marcus Papp, his name, well, that's Reggie

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Rizzou. On today's episode, at least one mystery of the famous screaming woman mummy is solved.

0:45.3

Plus, we've heard this a million times before, but scientists believe they may have discovered

0:50.1

a natural and effective treatment for male pattern baldness.

0:55.0

Plus, on this day in history, the world's oldest living tree was cut down.

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That's coming up on cool stuff.

1:02.0

Well, per sky news, the mystery of why an ancient Egyptian mummy nicknamed the screaming

1:08.0

woman had a pained expression on her face may have finally been solved.

1:12.6

New analysis by scientists suggest she died screaming from agony around 3,000 years ago.

1:18.8

The experts say she may then have experienced a rare event known as cadaveric spasm at the moment of

1:24.5

death, causing her muscles to stiffen and immortalize her suffering.

1:28.8

The condition causes the muscles to freeze in the exact position the person was in when they

1:33.1

died. Although her cause of death remains a mystery, cadaveric spasms are usually associated with

1:38.4

violent deaths under extreme physical conditions and intense emotions. The screaming woman's alarming expression is baffled experts for over 90 years.

1:47.3

But new analysis using CT scans to perform a quote unquote virtual dissection has uncovered a number of new details and challenges a previously held belief that her pained expression was the result of poor embalming.

2:01.0

Cairo University radiology professor Sahar Saleem, who led the study, said, quote,

2:05.8

the mummy's screaming facial expression in this study could be read as a cadaveric spasm,

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