Is there more to learn than to fear from toxic animals? How would we warn future humans about present dangers? And what are better ways for us to be buried? Things we mention:WIPP Mock Up ImagesSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about:This ant can kill 1 million elephants, haven’t found a venomous mushroom… yet, a lot of my friends are toxic frogs, nom nom nom I eat poison, don’t touch shit, from none to death, the schmidt sting index, I want the data not the sting, what schmidts data was actually saying, some toxins don’t correlate with pain or lethality, venomous mammals are have in common that they’re disregarded, shrews beareth a cruel mind, arguably venomous slow lorises, expanding our definition of toxicity, letting tom load a joke, protecting the future from caroline’s savage burns, the waste isolation pilot plant, 573 known extinct languages, I can haz nuclear waste? skull and crossbones, cubed morphines, “this place is a message…this place is not a place of honor”, landscape of thorns, forboding blocks, it’s giving kiki, taking a photo on a spike for the gram, nucelar priesthood, ray cats, “they didnt really care what we said i think”, understanding our past to connect to our future, just leave a dvd of the mummy, we’ve been burying people for 120,000 years, inventing oven crypts in the 1800s, gotta workshop the name oven crypt, “I want to be in a big bone pit”, lots of places resuse plots, just walking past a pile of tombstones! blasting our relatives into the stratosphere, natural burials, fungus coffins, water cremation.Sources:Poison, Venom, ToxungensAtlas Obscura Schmidt Sting IndexNPR Justin Schmidt InterviewFirst Sting Index Paper: Hemolytic Activities of Stinging Insect VenomsEvolution of Stings and SocialityNYTimes Interview with SchmidtVenomous Mammals: A ReviewNekaris Paper on Loris Bites Between Each OtherLoris Venom for CommunicationLoris Venom for Cobra MimicryShrew Spit Tames Cancer CellsJustin Schmidt Obituary---The US Energy Department Waste Isolation Pilot PlantEPA What is Transuranic Radioactive Waste?Understanding Extinct Languages: When and Why They Die OffJolly RogerPirates, Poison, and Professors: A Look at the Skull and Crossbones SymbolExpert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot PlantSummary of WIPP Team A report with imagesVice: How to Warn the Future About Toxic WasteYucca Mountain Nuclear Waste RepositoryNevada Attorney General: The Fight Against Yucca MountainThe Ray Cat Solution---BBC: Death Rituals in the Animal KingdomBBC: What Happens When We Run Out of Space to Bury the DeadBBC: The World is Running Out of Burial SpaceA Thought Experiment by J. HarringtonForbes: Rising to Heaven Dawn: South Africa's Graveyard Generation Mourns IOL: What About the Ancestors Paper: The environmental pollution caused by cemeteries and cremations: A reviewEA: The Grave Issue of Pollution From Cemeteries Sending Your Ashes to SpacesSmithsonian: What is Water CremationAsk A MorticianAsk A Mortician: Water CremationAsk A Mortician: Green Burial Options

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