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Important ResusX:2025 Update! Watch the video below! Welcome To ResusNation #112 A City That Drowned in Molasses On a chilly January afternoon in 1919, Boston’s North End was struck by an unthinkable disaster—not of fire, flood, or war, but of molasses. A 50-foot-tall steel...

Apr 15, 2025

ResusNation #111

Do Elephants Get Cancer? Despite their massive size and the sheer number of cells in their bodies, elephants have an astoundingly low rate of cancer. The reason? These gentle giants carry 20 copies of the tumor-suppressing gene TP53, while humans have just one. TP53 acts like the body’s cellula...

Apr 07, 2025

ResusNation #110

Forget Probiotics Coffee Is Already Doing The Job Coffee lovers rejoice! Scientists have discovered yet another reason to enjoy your daily brew - it's actually great for your gut health. In a massive study published in Nature Microbiology, researchers analyzed stool samples from nearly 23,000 p...

Apr 01, 2025

ResusNation #109

How Magic Mushrooms Shaped Human History 10,000 Years Before Your Instagram Feed Magic mushrooms have been woven into human culture since prehistoric times, far predating modern scientific research into psilocybin. Archaeological evidence suggests these psychedelic fungi played significant soci...

Mar 24, 2025

ResusNation #108

The Queen's Rotting Smile In 16th century England, sugar transformed from a rare medieval seasoning into a status symbol for the wealthy elite, with Queen Elizabeth I leading the sweet-toothed charge. As colonial trade brought sugar flowing into Elizabethan England, it became the centerpiece of...

Mar 17, 2025

ResusNation #107

How Our Ancestors Survived Freezing Temps Without Netflix (or Blankets) Winter wasn't just inconvenient for our prehistoric ancestors—it was a life-or-death battle against freezing temperatures and scarce resources. Yet through remarkable ingenuity, they developed sophisticated survival strateg...

Mar 10, 2025

ResusNation #106

Dring Blood, Cure Seizures? In ancient Rome, the spectacle of gladiatorial combat extended beyond mere entertainment to the realm of medicine, where the blood and organs of fallen warriors served as macabre remedies. Roman physicians, lacking scientific understanding of epilepsy, earnestly pres...

Mar 03, 2025

ResusNation #105

Forget Band-Aids: Spiders Might Be Your Next First Aid Kit Spider webs aren't just for catching flies anymore - they might be your next medical breakthrough. Scientists have discovered that spider web ointment significantly speeds up wound healing in laboratory tests, outperforming traditional...

Feb 24, 2025

ResusNation #104

How Dead Birds and a Medieval Writer Created Valentine's Day Think Valentine's Day is all about romance? Think again! The holiday actually traces back to not one, but possibly three different St. Valentines who were all martyred in the third century CE. These holy men shared some wild coincid...

Feb 17, 2025

ResusNation #103

The 1% Difference That Makes You Human We're practically identical twins with chimps when it comes to DNA, sharing a remarkable 98.8% of our genetic code. This similarity stems from our shared ancestor roughly 6-7 million years ago, but don't let that number fool you – even a tiny 1.2% differ...

Feb 10, 2025

ResusNation #102

Doctors Were Stunned When Patients Started Dancing In a twist of medical serendipity, the 1950s hunt for a tuberculosis cure led to something completely unexpected - the first antidepressant. When doctors at Staten Island's Sea View Hospital started testing a new drug called iproniazid, they w...

Feb 03, 2025

ResusNation #101

Anti-Aging Creams? Maybe You Just Need Jelly (Fish) Meet the ultimate escape artist of the animal kingdom: the Turritopsis dohrnii, a jellyfish smaller than your pinky nail that's basically found nature's fountain of youth. Unlike its mortal cousins who follow the boring old path of birth, lif...

Jan 27, 2025

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