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Evan Bernstein

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

You just cut what you need and go.

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

It's done.

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

Okay, Evan?

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

33,000 years consuming insects to supplement caloric intake routine throughout Europe and Asia until the last two to three centuries.

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

It makes sense at first glance.

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

I just don't know, though, about... There's a couple things that could be the part that would make this fiction.

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

Could be Europe, not Asia.

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

Could be Asia, not Europe.

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

At the time, two to three centuries, maybe not as long as that.

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

It was not, you know.

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

Wouldn't we have also maybe heard more about, you know, especially knowing kind of what people ate, even peasants ate in the last two, three hundred years ago.

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

I don't recall that insects were ever part of that discussion at all.

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

Even on some sort of supplemental level, it was always, I don't know.

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

Yeah.

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

This one strikes me as the fiction, but the other two I just also don't know about.

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

The second one, how could these isopods maintain their large size and survive five years without eating?

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

It must be it is internally eating its own organs or something like that.

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

It's like cannibalizing itself, which is kind of disgusting to think about, but maybe that's possibly an answer.

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

Yuck.

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

Which is, yeah, just leave that alone.