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slash setup welcome back to cool stuff ride home I'm redgerizu alongside Marcus

Paff on today's episode the reason why some brains don't

rot for thousands of years. And who's the fool now? Pyrite or Fool's Gold could fuel our future.

Plus, on this day in history, the first neon lights are displayed in public. That's all coming up on

cool stuff. Turning now to the Scientific American and author Kermit Patterson for a truly unique look

at the human brain after death. No part of our body is as perishable as the brain. Within

minutes of losing its supply of blood and oxygen, our delicate neurological machinery begins

to suffer irreversible damage.

The brain is our most energy-greedy organ, and in the hours after death, its enzymes

typically devour it from within.

As cellular membranes rupture, the brain liquefies.

Within days, microbes may consume the remnants in the stinky process of putrefaction.

In a few years, the skull becomes just an empty cavity.

In some cases, however, brains outlast all other soft tissues and remain intact for hundreds or even thousands of years.

Archaeologists have been mystified to discover naturally preserved brains in ancient

graveyards, tombs, mass graves, and even shipwrecks. Scientists at the University of Oxford published a study

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