Announcing IntroFest 2018
As a fun little end-of-year thing, I’m going to have you guys vote on your favorite intro sketch on this channel, which I’ll reveal in a mini-festival on December 27th!
Vote here: http://answerswithjoe.com/introfest
As a fun little end-of-year thing, I’m going to have you guys vote on your favorite intro sketch on this channel, which I’ll reveal in a mini-festival on December 27th!
Vote here: http://answerswithjoe.com/introfest
Near death experiences are surprisingly common, with 4-8% of the population having had one at some point. But are they peeks into the other side, just a hallucination, or something else entirely?
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Human cloning has been a hot topic since the first mammal, Dolly the sheep, was cloned in 1996. And while no human clones have been made – that we know of – the research into cloning is saving lives through stem cell therapy.
From the most powerful royalty in history to an uncontacted village in New York State, we’re talking about some of the most inbred people of all time.
The Blue Fugates of Kentucky were an isolated group of settlers who, through a rare recessive gene, developed blue skin. Due to their blue skin and their isolated location, they began to inbreed, eventually becoming something of a local legend – the blue hillbillies that live in the woods – until they reappeared in the 1960s.
Allentown, New York, is a village in New York State that was cut off from the rest of society after a dam flooded the valley where they lived. They call their community The Hollow, but outsiders call it Allentown because almost everybody there is from the same family.
The Habsburgs of Europe were one of the most powerful families in history, ruling over the Holy Roman Empire in Eastern Europe until the early 20th century. But one segment of the Habsburgs in Spain, known as the Spanish Habsburgs, participated in incest and inbreeding for so long that they developed The Habsburg Jaw – a genetic deformity that got so bad that many could barely speak. It was Charles II of Spain that finally put an end to this practice because he was so inbred that he couldn’t reproduce.
And the Egyptian royal family of ancient Egypt practiced inbreeding for over a thousand years because they believed that the only person who could mate with a pharaoh was someone else from their family – they were living gods after all. By the time King Tutankhamen was born, their lineage was so ruined that he had multiple genetic deformities and died at only 18.
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Japan’s JAXA is making headlines with a string of victories involving the smallest orbital rockets in the world, and asteroid landings and sample return missions. Let’s talk about what these guys are doing.
It’s not that uncommon to find glowing animals in nature, this is called bioluminescence. But can people do this as well? Turns out… Sort of.
In the 1800s, grave robbing was big business. Medical schools needed cadavers to teach anatomy and it was common for them to hire “resurrection men” to rob graves. And among grave robbers, Grandison Harris was the best.
The US is in the middle of an opioid epidemic that’s claiming thousands of lives. Here we talk about what caused it, how we get hooked on opioids in the first place, and some options on how to fix it.
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In this special Halloween video, we examine June and Jennifer Gibbons, twin girls who became known as the “Silent Twins” due to the fact that they never spoke except to each other, and even then, they did so in their own language nobody else could understand.
As they grew older, they became obsessed with their twinhood, and their obsession consumed them, leading them into violence and crime.
The twins were trapped in their relationship. They couldn’t be together and they couldn’t function apart. They came to believe that the only way either of them would be happy was for one of them to die.