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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Virtues of Venom

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Natural Sciences, Science, Social Sciences, Life Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2010

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sure, venom could kill you -- but it could also cure you. The medicinal use of venom dates back thousands of years and continues to the present day. Tune in as Allison and Robert break down the science behind venom and medicine in this podcast.

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0:50.5

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1:00.3

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1:08.4

of the new podcast I would forward. We are bringing the heat as we dish on hot topics,

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celeb gossip and more. Alexia and I have been gossiping for 23 years. We call it

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1:26.7

Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to stuff from the science lab

1:34.6

from howstepworks.com. Hey, this is Alison Maderman, the science center at howstepworks.com.

1:48.4

And this is Robert Lam, science writer at howstepworks.com.

1:52.4

Alison, you know of the old saying, spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down. I do. I do.

1:56.6

Was that Mary Poppins? I think so. Yeah. Mary Poppins said that famously. The whole idea is because

2:03.6

the medicine is so horrible. Just taste so yucky that you've got to have a massive amount of sugar

2:09.2

to get a child to take it. The child will choose death over the yucky taste. So you've got to have

2:13.7

an appropriate amount of sweetness to cancel it out. Very well, you know you can get the drugs

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