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Episode 43: Horror Express (1972)

Episode 43: Horror Express (1972)

Horror Express (1972) tells the tale of an anthropologist who discovers a frozen hominin in China which, unbeknownst to him, is possessed by a telepathic extraterrestrial life form. It’s basically The Thing on a train. Ross was so excited when he discove

Screens of the Stone Age · Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett

January 22, 202351m 41s

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Horror Express (1972) tells the tale of an anthropologist who discovers a frozen hominin in China which, unbeknownst to him, is possessed by a telepathic extraterrestrial life form. It’s basically The Thing on a train. Ross was so excited when he discovered this one that he couldn’t wait until Halloween.

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In this episode:

Optography – How Forensic Scientists Once Tried to “See” a Dead Person’s Last Sight: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-forensic-scientists-once-tried-see-dead-persons-last-sight-180959157/

Early calculations of the age of Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Earth#Early_calculations

How the human brain gets its wrinkles: https://www.livescience.com/47421-human-brain-wrinkles.html

Dmanisi – the first humans outside Africa: https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-frail-small-brained-people-who-first-trekked-out-africa

The history of human origin studies (Including Java Man, the Piltdown hoax, and the Taung Child): https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s12052-010-0248-7