Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Dr. Steven Novella

👤 Speaker
3997 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

Eating insects is very much a tropical behavior.

5351.624 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

Why is that?

5355.39 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

So what kinds of insects are more routine in the tropics?

5360.479 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

Big, meaty ones.

5364.105 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

Juicy.

5365.247 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

Juicy.

5366.029 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

Flying ones?

5366.129 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

Social ones.

5366.81 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

Easy to get.

5368.293 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

So swarming ones.

5369.295 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

You find one termite mound and you have access to a lot of termites.

5370.217 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

Kuna matata, my man.

5378.652 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

In order for it to be worth the caloric investment in hunting down insects, you need to get- Look, I found an ant.

5381.077 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

Thousands.

5388.45 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

I ate and singular cockroach.

5389.332 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

So as you go further north, insect eating becomes less common.

5392.978 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

And what they found was that when they did find chitin in the plaque of Asian and European, like more northern populations of humans, they said their insect eating was sporadic.

5398.588 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

And probably accidental.

5412.772 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

Oh.

5415.255 View full episode →
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

Kind of like when we eat a hot dog.

5416.516 View full episode →
← Previous Page 32 of 200 Next →
Report any issue