SYSK Selects: How Shrunken Heads Work

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 2 September 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this week's SYSK Select episode, although U.S. museum collections are rife with counterfeits, shrunken heads are far from fiction. The Shuar tribe of Ecuador has shrunken heads for centuries. Learn the methodical process of shrinking a head and how the

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Hey everybody, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S.K. Selects, I've chosen Shrunk
0:36.1	and Heads.
0:37.1	One of the all-time great stuff you should know episodes.
0:40.4	It originally ran in June of 2011.
0:43.3	And although it will teach you step-by-step how to shrink a human head, you should not
0:48.8	try this at home.
1:04.8	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
1:06.2	I'm Josh Clark with me as always as Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
1:10.8	And that makes this stuff you should know, The Podcast.
1:13.1	And you're not the radio show though.
1:16.6	No, no, this, not yet.
1:19.0	It probably will be eventually this one.
1:20.8	Yeah, I bet you they'll speed this one through, man.
1:22.8	You know it's crazy is we could say right now, hello WFMU listeners, so that when this
1:29.5	is repurposed into our radio show in WFMU, it'll blow their minds.
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