57: Don't Lose Your Head! and Constructed Languages

Losing your head isn't good, but what actually happens, and what can it tell us about animals, ethics, and bad science? And what is a constructed language, when does it fail, and when can it be use to make great... art? As they say, Ni Lernu Ĉion! Content Warning that today's science topic can be a bit grim, so if you want, you can skip ahead to 54:54 Things we Talk About: Mike The Chicken Sea Slug Moving The Narmer Palette Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:36) Don't Lose Your Head! (00:54:55) Constructed Languages (01:36:55) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Pretty clear cut or chopped, did we need to write this down? why do you die when you lose your head? let’s start with a deep philosophical question: are we our brains? Tom clearly doesn’t know Mike the chicken, Mike was the original pitch for Charlotte’s Web, mooching some slugs, The Mystery of the Beheading of Elysia Marginata, capital punishment comes from beheadings, the guillotine could behead 20 people per hour, “the most gentle of lethal methods”, …do you guys not have the death penalty? ethics of rat euthanasia, Canavero’s bogus self published head transplants, like the…